Donald DePamphilis,
"Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, Fifth Edition: An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions"
Academic Press | 2009 | ISBN: 012374878X | 788 pages | PDF | 3,2 MB


Mergers, acquisitions, business alliances, and corporate restructuring activities are increasingly commonplace in both developed and emerging countries. Given the frequency with which such activities occur, it is critical for business people and officials at all levels of government to have a basic understanding of why and how such activities take place. The objective of this book is to bring clarity to what can be an exciting, complex, and sometimes frustrating subject. This book is intended to help the reader think of the activities involved in mergers, acquisitions, business alliances, and corporate restructuring in an integrated way.


The fifth edition contains exciting new content, including one new and seven substantially revised, updated, or reorganized chapters. The new chapter (Chapter 16) is entirely devoted to restructuring under bankruptcy and liquidation. This chapter is particularly timely, following the global economic slowdown of recent years, as financially distressed companies seek the protection of bankruptcy courts or are liquidated over the next several years.

In the 5th edition of this well-known text, Dr. DePamphilis explains the real world of mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring based on his academic knowledge and personal experiences with over 30 such deals himself. The CDROM and password-protected website for students is unique in enabling students to download and customize content. Important enhancements unique to the fifth edition: all 99 cases involve real-life deals made or announced within the last 5 years, extensive discussions of all current valuation techniques and their strengths and weaknesses, cross-border transactions analyzed and explained in detail, tax and legal issues covered comprehensively. Student Resource CDROM contains with hundreds of practice problems in interactive tests providing immediate feedback and solutions, chapter outlines, and selected case study solutions. Complete on-line instructor's manual completely updated as well including test bank with hundreds of questions not provided to students, in multiple choice, true false and essay format and all with answers, case study questions and solutions, ppt slides for each lecture, and many other instructor resources. Instructors can load the test bank into their institutions LMS for randomized and scoring tests.