Merger & Acquisition

 

Acquisitions and Mergers is divergent in practice and most controversial in business, and therefore the need to highlight the salient points related to “the most dramatic or controversial activity in corporate finance”. (Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe, 2008).

 What is Covered?

• Forms of Acquisitions
• Synergy
• Bad Reasons for Mergers
• Cost to Stockholders
• Methods of Valuation [NPV and other techniques of a Merger]
• Friendly versus Hostile Takeovers
• Defensive Tactics
• Do Mergers Add Value?
• Accounting for Acquisitions
• Going Private and Leverage Buyouts
• Divestitures