Global Mergers and Acquisitions: Combining Companies Across Borders (2)

This first volume of the second edition of Global Mergers and Acquisitions primarily deals with corporate restructuring through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). It critically examines all functions that must be performed in completing an M&A transaction. Domestic and crossborder M&A's are very similar in many respects even though differences between them also exist. The book includes discussions of international finance and multinational financial management-the topics that arise in cross-border M&A transactions.

Given the increasing importance of China as the second largest economy in the world and Chinese companies' growing merger and acquisition (M&A) activities globally, we devote the last two chapters of the book to China's outward foreign direct investment and cross-border M&A activities. Moreover, the second volume includes the case studies regarding Chinese foreign direct investment both in Greenfield and acquisition forms give additional insights into challenging tasks of due diligence and post-merger cultural integration that foreign investors face.

The M&A literature is a fragmented field of inquiry. This book brings together important, practical insights from this vast literature in a short, but cohesive form that has high managerial relevance.

Abdol S. Soofi has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, at the School of Business Administration, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and many high-ranking, selective universities in China. Soofi has published many scholarly papers in academic journals such as Journal of Royal Statistical Society A, Quantitative Finance, International Journal of Forecasting, Economic Letters, Journal of Policy Modeling, among others. Soofi's published books deal with international business, nonlinear dynamics and finance, and development of science and technology in Iran. Soofi has served as the guest editor of a special issue of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and is currently serving as guest editor of special issues for Economic and Political Studies, and Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management.

Dr. Yuqin Zhang received her doctoral degree in Management Science and Engineering in 2004 from Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is assistant professor in Economics at the University of International Business and Economics, and she has published several research papers in journals such as Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of Internal Trade (in Chinese), and Journal of Systems Science and Complexity.