Supplemented with numerous updated, international case studies, this new Fourth Edition helps students fully comprehend the issues, methods, motives, and techniques that shape today’s world of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and reorganizations. Providing a historical and practical perspective, it covers every aspect of a deal–from which kind of corporate restructuring is right for a corporation and the laws governing them to the financial analysis used by acquiring and target companies prior to signing the deal.

Patrick A. Gaughan (New York, NY) is President of Economatrix Research Associates, Professor of Economics and Finance at the College of Business at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and the author of several books and articles in the field of mergers and acquisitions.