Top M&A books curated by experts

A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of Wall Street and the '80s culture it helped define,Barbarians at the Gate is a modern classic—a masterpiece of investigatory journalism and a rolli…

Creating Value from Mergers and Acquisitions is the first book to provide a comparative analysis of the M&A scene in Europe and the US, the two most active markets in the world. Now in its second edition it continues to develop an international and multidisciplinary perspective of M&A, and consi…

Authoritative and completely up-to-date, the Fourth Edition of The Art of M&A is an unsurpassed, one-stop guide to every facet of mergers and acquisitions that enables you to make winning deals with complete confidence. This definitive resource retains its popular Q&A format, offering quick acce…

"Deals from Hell" surveys failure in mergers and acquisitions, drawing on an extensive review of research, original study of 2,804 transactions, and detailed case studies of ten prominent failures. The conclusions challenge conventional wisdom about M&A and enrich our ability to anticipate failu…

Mergers & Acquisitions For Dummies is your insider's handbook about the practice of buying and selling companies. It explains the entire M&A process step by step, introduces you to industry specific terms and acronyms, details the documents used when buying or selling a company, discusses valuat…

Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions, Second Edition is a highly accessible and authoritative book that focuses on the primary valuation methodologies currently used on Wall Street--comparable companies, precedent transactions, DCF, and LBO analysis--as we…

Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies is a handbook that can help managers, investors, and students understand how to foster corporate health and create value for the future—goals that have never been more timely.

The book explores every key aspect of winning M&A transactions, and presents advice on avoiding common M&A pitfalls. Filled with detailed examples and case studies, this updated classic also includes discussion of purchase accounting, Section 404, new legal cases with M&A implications, and more.…

Valuation has been the foremost resource for measuring company value for nearly three decades. Now in its seventh edition, this acclaimed volume continues to help financial professionals around the world gain a deep understanding of valuation and help their companies create, manage, and maximize…

M&As is a strategy for growth and expansion. M&As increase value and efficiency and thereby, increase shareholder' value. M&As is a generic term used to represent many different types of corporate restructuring exercises.

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities: An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions, Ninth Edition, is the most current, comprehensive and cutting-edge text on M&A and corporate restructuring available. It includes many of the most up-to-date and notable dea…

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