Examines the economic, financial and strategic perspectives of the largest M&A dealsDiscusses synergies in mergers including revenue, cost synergies, operating synergies and financial synergies Includes analysis of premium payment, methods of payment and wealth creation for stockholders

Autorentext
B Rajesh Kumar is a professor of finance at IMT Dubai. He received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Kharagpur. His research interest are in areas of applied corporate finance, valuation and mergers and acquisition. He has published over 45 empirical research papers in refereed international journals. He has written six books of which three were published by Academic Press Elsevier USA (Strategies of Banks and other Financial Institutions ; Valuation Concepts and theories ; Strategic Financial Management Case Book), one each by Palgrave Macmillan UK (Case studies on Megamergers );McGraw-Hill India (Mergers and Acquisition: Text and Cases) ; ICFAI Books (Strategies of Indian Pharma Industry).

Zusammenfassung
Examines the economic, financial and strategic perspectives of the largest M&A dealsDiscusses synergies in mergers including revenue, cost synergies, operating synergies and financial synergies Includes analysis of premium payment, methods of payment and wealth creation for stockholders

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Theoretical Perspectives on Mergers and Acquisitions.- Chapter 2. Vodafone Acquisition of Mannesmann.- Chapter 3. American Online -Time Warner Merger and other restructuring.- Chapter 4. Acquisitions by Verizon,- Chapter 5. Dow DuPont Merger.- Chapter 6. Mergers and Acquisitions by Anheuser Busch InBev.- Chapter 7. Merger of Kraft and Heinz Company.- Chapter 8. Acquisitions by Pfizer.- Chapter 9. Exxon Mobil Merger.- Chapter 10. Citicorp -Travelers Group Merger.- Chapter 11. AT&T -Time Warner Acquisition.- Chapter 12. ABN AMRO Acquisition by RFS holding.- Chapter 13. Glaxo SmithKline Merger.- Chapter 14. Acquisitions by Royal Dutch Shell.- Chapter 15. Bell South Merger with AT&T.- Chapter 16. Comcast acquisition of AT&T Broadband.- Chapter 17. Key Mergers of J P Morgan Chase.- Chapter 18. Charter Communication acquisition of Time Warner Cable.- Chapter 19. Actavis-Allergan Merger Deal.- Chapter 20. Dell's Acquisition of EMC.- Chapter 21. Altria Group's spin off of Philip Morris International Inc.- Chapter 22. Vodafone Air Touch Merger.- Chapter 23. Bell Atlantic- GTE Merger.- Chapter 24. British Petroleum merger with Amoco.- Chapter 25. Qwest merger with US West.- Chapter 26. WorldCom's Acquisition of MCI.- Chapter 27. Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn.- Chapter 28. Procter &Gamble's Acquisition of Gillette.- Chapter 29. Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft.- Chapter 30. Mergers and Acquisitions by Bank of America.- Chapter 31. Gaze de Franc Merger with Suez.- Chapter 32. Sanofi-Aventis Merger.- Chapter 33. Bayer's Acquisition of Monsanto.- Chapter 34. Roche Holding's acquisition of Genentech.- Chapter 35. France Telecom SAOrange PLC Merger.- Chapter 36. MerckSchering Plough Corp Merger.- Chapter 37. Astra-Zeneca Merger.- Chapter 38. HP Compaq Merger.- Chapter 39. Major Acquisitions by Facebook.- Chapter 40. JDS Uniphase Corp and SDL Inc. Merger.- Chapter 41. KKR's acquisition of First Data.- Chapter 42. Lucent Technologies Acquisition of Ascend Communications.- Chapter 43. Vivendi Seagram Deal.- Chapter 44. Daimler Chrysler Merger.- Chapter 45. Arcelor Mittal Merger.