Merger Masters: Tales of Arbitrage
by Kate Welling (Author), Mario Gabelli (Author)

About the Author
Kate Welling is the editor and publisher of Welling on Wall St., an independent financial journal. A well-known financial journalist, she was managing editor of Barron’s.
Mario Gabelli is the chairman and chief executive officer of GAMCO Investors, Inc. A merger master in his own right, he is one of the country’s leading money managers and investors.

About this book
Merger Masters presents revealing profiles of monumentally successful merger investors based on exclusive interviews with some of the greatest minds to practice the art of arbitrage. Michael Price, John Paulson, Paul Singer, and others offer practical perspectives on how their backgrounds in the risk-conscious world of merger arbitrage helped them make their biggest deals. They share their insights on the discipline that underlies their fortunes, whether they practice the “plain vanilla” strategy of announced deals, the aggressive strategy of activist investment, or any strategy in between on the risk spectrum.
Merger Masters delves into the human side of risk arbitrage, exploring how top practitioners deal with the behavioral aspects of generating consistent profits from risk arbitrage. The book also includes perspectives from the other side of the mergers and acquisitions divide in the form of interviews with a trio of iconic CEOs: Bill Stiritz, Peter McCausland, and Paul Montrone. All three took advantage of M&A opportunities to help build long-term returns but often found themselves at odds with the short-term focus of Wall Street and merger investors. Told in lively, accessible prose, with bonus facts and figures for transaction junkies, Merger Masters is an incomparable set of stories with plenty of unfiltered lessons from the best managers of our time.

Brief contents
Introduction—Why This Book?
Part I: The Arbs’ Perspectives
1. Guy Wyser-Pratte
2. Jeffrey Tarr
3. Martin Gruss
4. Paul Singer
5. Michael Price
6. Peter Schoenfeld
7. John Paulson
8. Paul Gould
9. George Kellner
10. Roy Behren and Michael Shannon
11. Karen Finerman
12. John Bader
13. Clint Carlson
14. James Dinan
15. Drew Figdor
16. Jamie Zimmerman
17. Keith Moore
Part II: The View from the Other Side—The CEOs
18. William Stiritz
19. Paul Montrone
20. Peter McCausland
Appendix I: Risk Arbitrage Decision Tree
Appendix II: Deals
Appendix III: A Note on Methods
Index

Series: Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series
Length: 408 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press (November 6, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231190425
ISBN-13: 978-0231190428