M&A: A Practical Guide to Doing the Deal

This practitioner's guide to mergers and acquisitions explains each step of the process and presents strategies to focus the search and transaction procedure to match the acquiring management objectives and financial capabilities including its shareholder's risk-taking profile. A general discussion of the subject is followed by chapters reviewing each step of the acquisition process--from finding a possible opportunity and analyzing it, to closing a transaction. Distinct chapters are devoted to examining the motives of financial buyers or management buyout firms which represent a significant portion of acquisition activity. The final segment of the book considers the process of selling a business.

About the Author

JEFFREY C. HOOKE is a Managing Director of Focus Securities, a mid-market investment bank. Previously, he led deals at the Emerging Markets Partnership, a $5 billion private equity fund, and was a Principal Investment Officer of the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank's $51 billion private sector division. Earlier, he was an investment banker with Lehman Brothers and Schroder Wertheim in New York. Hooke is a respected author and finance and investment executive with international experience.