Takeovers: Strategic Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions

Written by the experts at Debevoise & Plimpton and LeBoef, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, this book will help you swiftly master the nomenclature, tempo of deal making and techniques for closing in all types of business combinations. Takeovers: A Strategic Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions, Second Edition gives you a practical understanding of the critical procedures, issues and laws both bidder and target corporations must consider, including:

How tender offers are regulated in the United States

Tender offer tactics

Proxy contests

The Hart-Scott-Rodino Act

Rules relating to the financing of tender offers

Strategic litigation

Federal regulation of a target's responses to a takeover

State takeover legislation

Deal protections

Poison pills

And more! Also included in the Second Edition are such topics as:

Recent Trends in mergers and acquisitions

Changes in the regulation of cross-border M&A

The impact of the rule 14d-10 on tender offers

How the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has affected M&A

Selective Disclosure and tipping issues

Stockholder proposals relating to poison pills

Stockholder access rules to director nominations

Changes in judicial review of director decisions

Omnicare and other major developments relating to deal protection

Pure resources and other key going private cases

And changes in state takeover laws