The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions: Process Tools to...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 336 pages
• Published by: Jossey-Bass
• Edition: 2nd Edition June 15, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 078799460X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0787994600
• Book Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Product Description
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) experts Tim Galpin and Mark Herndon present an updated and expanded guide to planning and managing the M&A process. This comprehensive book is unique in providing the tools to address both the human and operational sides of integration. Based on the authors' consulting experience with numerous Fortune 500 companies, this resource will help organizations capture deal synergies more quickly and effectively. Augmenting their step-by-step advice with helpful templates, checklists, graphs and tools, Galpin and Herndon provide sound guidance for successfully integrating different processes, organizations, and cultures. The authors also address pre-deal do’s and don’ts, people dynamics, common mistakes, communications strategies, and specific actions you can take to create measurable positive results throughout the integration process. The revised edition not only updates case studies and presents recent integration research, but it also adds new tools.

Book Info
Provides all the tools, templates, and proven techniques managers need to efficiently combine different processes, organizations, and cultures. Presents examples from contemporary mega-mergers. DLC: Consolidation and merger of corporations --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions: Process Tools to Support M&A Integration at Every Level (Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series) (Hardcover) There is already an abundance of resources on the subject of M&A, especially those available on the WWW. If you are looking for a single-volume source, this is probably one of the best. The authors devote 14 chapters to virtually all aspects of M&A. In process, with clarity and eloquence, they explain the "Watson Wyatt Deal Flow Model" which, after appropriate modifications, can be applied to almost any organization involved in M&A negotiations, either as a buyer or as a seller. The final chapter, all by itself, is well worth the cost of the book. In it, the authors suggest various "keys" to M&A success. They then provide: Resource A: Sample Task Force Charter Resource B: Integration Planning Template Resource C: Executive Summary of Watson Wyatt Worldwide's 1998-1999 Mergers and Acquisitions Survey What we have here is a single-volume in which two experts on the subject of M&A seem to share everything they know about the subject. Even if your company is not currently a buyer or seller, its senior-level executives should read this book. Why? Because you just never know. Perhaps sooner than now anticipated, your company will be courted by another...or it will be attracted to another company as a prospective acquisition. In either situation, this book (and the "Watson Wyatt Deal Flow Model" it discusses) will be invaluable.