The essential executive M&A primer, with practical tools and expert insight Mergers and Acquisitions Basics provides complete guidance on the M&A process, with in-depth analysis, expert insight, and practical tools for success. This new second edition has been updated to reflect the current M&A landscape, giving busy executives the ideal resource for navigating each step in the process. Veteran executives relate guidelines, lessons learned, and mistakes to avoid as they explain how M&As work, identify the major players, and describe the roles involved in a successful transaction. Both buyer and seller must consider a broad range of factors, and this essential guide provides checklists, forms, sample reports, and presentations to help you avoid surprises and ensure your organization's full preparation for the deal. Equity investments, valuation, negotiation, integration, legal aspects, and more are explained in detail to provide a foundational primer for anyone seeking to clarify their role in the process. Mergers and acquisitions are becoming ever more critical to the growth of large and mid-sized companies. This book balances depth and breadth to provide a one-stop guide to maximizing the financial and operational value of the deal. * Identify key drivers of purchase or sale * Understand major roles, processes, and practices * Avoid valuation detractors and negotiate effectively * Overcome common challenges to successful integration Effective M&As are highly strategic, solidly structured, and beneficial on both sides. It's a complex process with many variables, many roles, and many potential pitfalls, but navigating the deal successfully can mean the difference between growth and stagnation. Mergers and Acquisitions Basics is the comprehensive resource every executive needs to understand the ins-and-outs of strategic transactions.

Mergers and Acquisitions Deal-makers

Building a Winning Team

Second Edition

Countless mergers take place every year, giving the impression--on paper, at least--of making sound financial and strategic sense, yet many disintegrate or fail to meet expectations because the crucial strategic element of understanding the actual players, their agendas, and biases is often neglected or overlooked. Mergers and Acquisitions Deal-Makers: Building a Winning Team, Second Edition takes you behind the scenes of strategic transactions to keep you one step ahead of all the players and make the deal happen.

Drawing from author Michael Frankel's unique experience working with companies in the process of merging, he provides an insider's look, complete with the pitfalls as well as the best practices, of all the players--from the buyers and the sellers, to the institutional shareholders, to private investors--with insights on how to work smart with each player as well as the economic and incentive models that drive each one.

Premised on the idea that the individual players in a merger are the key to understanding the deal, Mergers and Acquisitions Deal-Makers: Building a Winning Team, Second Edition begins by discussing the buyer and seller as unified entities, then peels back the legal facade at the deal table to reveal the individuals behind the details, including:

Executive management

In-house corporate development

Line management

Board of directors

Equity holders

Private investors

Lawyers and investment bankers

Equally valuable reading for deal specialists who carry out strategic transactions for a living as well as for business people who encounter mergers andacquisitions on occasion and simply want to understand how they work, Mergers and Acquisitions Deal-Makers: Building a Winning Team, Second Edition gives you straight talk on leveraging the most important component of the deal: the players, how they work, and how to effectively manage them.