Global Mergers and Acquisitions

Preface

This book primarily deals with corporate restructuring through ­mergers and acquisitions (M&As). It critically examines all functions that must be performed in completing an M&A transaction. Domestic and cross-­border­ M&A’s are very similar in many respects even though differences between them also exist. To include discussions of the issues that arise in cross-border M&A transactions, the book also discusses topics such as international finance and multinational financial management.

Given the increasing importance of China as the second largest economy in the world and Chinese companies’ growing merger and acquisition (M&A) activities globally, we devote the last two chapters of the book to China’s outward foreign direct investment ...