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Objective
The objective of this course is to help student in familiarizing with various aspects of mergers and
acquisitions, including their valuation.
REFERENCE BOOK PUBLICATION
Mergers & Acquisitions ICFAI
Mergers & Acquisitions Weston, Fred. McGraw Hill 2001
The Complete Guide to Mergers and Galpin, Timothy J. / Herndon, Mark. Jossey
Acquisitions: Process Tools to Support M&A Bass 2007
Integration at Every Level, 2 nd e
Five Frogs on A Log: A CEO's Field Guide to Feldman, Mark L / Spratt, Michael Frederick.
Accelerating the Transition in Mergers, New York: Harper Business 1999
Acquisitions, and Gut Wrenching Change, 1st e
Harvard business review on mergers and Boston: Harvard Business School Press 2001
acquisitions
Barbarians at The Gate: The Fall of RJR Burrough, Bryan / Helyar, John.
Nabisco, 1 st e New York: Harper & Row; 1990. xvi, 528 p.,
32 p of plates ISBN: 0060161728. Collins
Business 2008
MergersWhat Can Go Wrong and How to Gaughan, Patrick A. Wiley Finance 2005
Prevent it, 1 st e
Damodaran on Valuation, 2 nd e Damodaran, Ashwath. John Wiley 2006
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M&A and Corporate Restructuring, 4 e Gaughan, Patrick A. Wiley 2007
Detailed Syllabus
Mergers and Acquisitions Overview: Introduction Forms of Corporate Restructuring
Expansion Mergers and Acquisitions Tender Offers Joint Ventures SellOffs Spin offs Split
offs Split ups Divestitures Equity Carveouts Corporate Control Premium Buybacks
Standstill Agreements AntiTakeover Amendments Proxy Contests Changes in Ownership
Structures Share Repurchases Exchange Offers Leveraged Buyout Going Private Issue
Raised by Restructuring History of Merger Movements.
Mergers and Acquisitions: Economic Rationale for Major Types of Mergers Horizontal Mergers
Vertical Mergers Conglomerate Mergers Concentric Mergers Framework for Analysis of
Cases
Faculty will be handling eight or more cases
· Oracle's Acquisition of Peoplesoft
· The Adidas Reebok Merger
· eBay's Acquisition of Skype: Will the 'Gamble' Work?
· HPCompaq: A Failed Merger?
· The Gucci LVMH Battle
· The Polaris Orbitech Merger
· Valuing Sify's Acquisition of Indiaworld
· Holcim's Acquisitions in 2005
· The Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Merger
· Disney's Acquisition of Pixar
· News Corp in 2005: Consolidating The DirecTV Acquisition
· Tata Tetley: Managing the Tetley Acquisition
· AT&T in 2005: Merging With SBC
· RightNow Technologies (Harvard Business School Case)
· Jet Airways' Attempted Acquisition of Air Sahara
Source: Case Studies on Mergers & Acquisitions Volume II
Topic No. of Sessions
Mergers and Acquisitions Overview 1
Mergers and Acquisitions 2
Principles of Valuation 2
Increasing the Value of the Organization 2
Methods of Payment 2
Theories of Mergers 2
SellOffs and Divestitures 2
Joint Ventures 2
Divestment of Public Sector Undertakings and Leveraged Buyouts 2
ESOPs and MLPs 2
International Mergers and Acquisitions 2
Share Repurchase and Exchanges 2
Corporate Control Mechanisms 3
Takeover Defenses 2
Management Guides for Mergers and Acquisitions 2
Takeover Models 1
Regulatory framework and Current Development 2
Total 33