Due Diligence for Global Deal Making
The Definitive Guide to Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Financings, and Strategic Alliances
Bloomberg Professional
1. Edition September 2002
372 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Companies of all sizes have been initiating international
transactions--mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic
alliances, and private placements--in record numbers. Targeted due
diligence is crucial to effectively research, value, and complete
these complex deals. With an evolving climate of uncertainty and
new, unpredictable threats to business, it is more essential than
ever before.
Due Diligence for Global Deal Making is an invaluable
guidebook for companies trying to capitalize on the opportunities
in both developed and emerging cross-border markets. All too often
global transactions fail to meet the parties' expectations, and the
leading culprit is inadequate due diligence. Especially when the
target partner lacks a financial performance track record and
significant assets, expanding businesses must answer difficult
questions, such as: Why (if at all) do this deal? What are the
rules going in, and what happens if things go wrong? Where are the
tax, legal, financial, and operational traps, and what are the
opportunities? This book provides what's needed to avoid
devastating mistakes and to master the steps that ensure
success:
* Expert analysis, insights, and strategies from experienced
practitioners and leading authorities in cross-border matters
* In-depth coverage of critical topics decision makers need to
understand in order to succeed in cross-border transactions--from
corporate planning to operational, financial, legal, tax,
accounting, and people/organizational considerations
* Best practices of corporate investors and professional advisers
in conducting critical due diligence
Noted experts discuss critical topics corporate executives--and
all those involved with their company's legal, operational,
accounting, and tax matters--need to know to successfully complete
complex global transactions today.
"It's hard to find a book more timely than Due Diligence for
Global Deal Making. The rapid growth of global markets in
the last decade of the twentieth century increased the risk of
fraud and problems in understanding legal and financial documents
and assessing operations. Arthur Rosenbloom, a top authority on due
diligence, has correctly diagnosed the situation and edited a
useful and strategically important book. Many of the recent
financial scandals to which we are witness might have been avoided
had the lessons appearing in this work been heeded."
--Vladimir Kvint, PhD
Professor of Management Systems and International Business,
Fordham University
Author, The Global Emerging Market in Transition
Contributing Editor, Forbes Global magazine
"This is a timely book that brings back the commonsense, in
addition to the applied forensics, approach to due diligence.
In light of recent dramatic due-diligence failures, deal
participants need to make sure they fully understand the company
that is undergoing a corporate transaction. Due-diligence issues
are often exacerbated in cross-border deals, making this book's
global focus very relevant."
--James H. Zukin
Senior Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
Capital
"Thoughtful due diligence has never been more important in deal
making, and this book gives you all the tools to get the job done.
It also goes beyond diligence to clarify strategy and long-term
objectives. It's a critical business reference."
--Rick Rickertsen
Chief Operating Officer, Thayer Capital Partners
Author, Buyout: The Insider's Guide to Buying Your Own
Company
