Rating: 
Summary: A guide book for the nuts & bolts of making acquisitions
Review: After scanning several books on the subject, this one looked like the most useful and usable of the batch. The Art of M&A provides solid, detailed and precise information for people in companies making acquisitions. It is a good introduction to the topic and long term resource for specifics.
Rating:
Summary: A guide book for the nuts & bolts of making acquisitions
Review: After scanning several books on the subject, this one looked like the most useful and usable of the batch. The Art of M&A provides solid, detailed and precise information for people in companies making acquisitions. It is a good introduction to the topic and long term resource for specifics.
Rating:
Summary: Highly Practical
Review: I have been an M&A practitioner for twenty years and rarely have I found a book that is as readable and useable as this one. The author is able to synthesize difficult concepts and communicate them in a highly user friendly way.
Rating:
Summary: great book, looking for more
Review: I have the perspective of an investor who would like to be better able to analyze announced public acquisitions and their odds of being completed. Chapter 12 which discusses issues facing public companies does a good job explaining basic securities laws. I am glad I bought it. If anyone can suggest resources which go into more thorough, nitty gritty detail regarding public mergers and related securities laws, please e-mail me. Thanks.
Rating:
Summary: 2 companies need to merge
Review: i involve in merging in two big companies who are listed. the two companies main business deals with international securities and portfolios and properties. i do face some dificulties upon evaluting these properties. my Q. is how to evalute the properties which are mainly involve in business incmes.
Rating: 
Summary: A Definitive Manual for M&A Transactions
Review: If you only were allowed to have one book on this subject in your library, this is the one that you want. It gives good coverage to all of the important topics needed to evaluate, price and execute a transaction. The footnotes at the end of each chapter are an excellent reference. It also benefits from a very detailed index. The Q&A format of the text is a bit unusual for a work of this type, but is actually quite useful when browsing or quickly finding the key theme of each paragraph or section. It also contains a good selection of sample documents and checklists. Overall, it delivers a lot of high quality information the investment banking professional can really use.
Rating:
Summary: Highly Practical
Review: If you're a newcoming US M&A analyst or associate, this book should be considered essential reading. Even for a VP or above, it's a great reference manual.
Rating:
Summary: Wise investment
Review: If you're a newcoming US M&A analyst or associate, this book should be considered essential reading. Even for a VP or above, it's a great reference manual.
Rating:
Summary: Yes, this is a very focused topic, but it is a great book!
Review: The very size of this book on such a specialized topic may seem daunting. However, the writing is so lively and the organization by question and answer is so easy to use that you will find this a very useful and comprehensive handbook.It is NOT a theory laden textbook. Rather, it is a very useful and practical guide to the field and will help the careful reader avoid many pitfalls. There are many ways to make mistakes in buying companies and this book can open your eyes to quite of few of them. In fact, if you are the target of a buyout, this book can be of special importance and interest. I admit to being fascinated by this topic so take that into consideration when evaluating what I say about this book. But even so, mergers and acquistions are so much in the news (for good and ill) that it can only help to get more background on what is really going on and how these deals are (or at least should be) put together. The book reads MUCH shorter than its size and is fairly comprehensive on the subject - from the methods in selecting candidates for acquisition to what to do when you are a target of an acquisition to some very specialized topics. It also deals with M&A issues with both public, private, and even family firms. Honestly, I am surprised at how glad I am that I bought this book. It is terrific.
Rating:
Summary: Great Reference Book
Review: This is a fantastic reference tome for anyone involved with M&A. As a private equity Associate, I have found this book to be invaluable on multiple levels as both a reference guide for securities law, as well as for procedural issues such as sample formats for term sheets, DD check lists, etc. Also, while it is a dense read, I think this would be invaluable for people just entering either Investment Banking or Private Equity to read as an introduction to the rules, regulations and procedures surrounding mergers/acquisitions.
| 
