Gilson and Black's casebook provides detailed information on the law and finance of corporate acquisitions. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series�, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases.
Table of Contents
Ch. 1. An Introduction To Corporate Acquisitions and Transaction Planning
Ch. 2. Valuation Under Certainty
Ch. 3. Value Under Uncertainty: Risk and Diversification
Ch. 4. The Relationship Between Risk and Return: The Capital Asset Pricing Model and Alternatives
Ch. 5. The Efficient Capital Markets Hypothesis
Ch. 6. Event Studies: Measuring the Impact of Information
Ch. 7. The Option Perspective
Ch. 8. Operating Synergy
Ch. 9. Diversification and Financial Synergy
Ch. 10. Replacing Inefficient Management
Ch. 11. Leveraged Buyouts and Recapitalizations
Ch. 12. Tax Incentives Favoring (or Disfavoring) Acquisitions
Ch. 13. Financial Accounting Treatment of Acquisitions
Ch. 14. Mispricing of the Target Company's Stock
Ch. 15. Wealth Transfers as an Acquisition Motive
Ch. 16. The Mechanics of Alternative Acquisition Techniques
Ch. 17. Corporate Law Considerations in Hostile Transactions
Ch. 18. Federal Securities Regulation of Hostile Acquisitions: The Williams Act
Ch. 19. Corporate Law Concerns in Friendly Acquisitions
Ch. 20. Federal Securities Regulation of Friendly Transactions
Ch. 21. Partial Acquisitions Through Private Purchase of Control
Ch. 22. Freezeout Mergers
Ch. 23. State Regulation of Takeovers
Ch. 24. Proxy Fights as Alternatives and Complements to Tender Offers
Ch. 25. Pre-Transaction Government Review: Hart-Scott-Rodino and Exon-Florio
Ch. 26. Successor Liability of the Acquiring Company
Ch. 27. The Corporate Acquisition Agreement: The Private Ordering Role of Business Lawyers
