Global Mergers and Acquisitions, 2nd Edition

Preface to the First Edition

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

Given the increasing importance of China as a global economic leader as well as Chinese companies’ growing outbound merger and acquisition (M&A) activities, we devote the second volume of the book to China’s outward foreign direct investment and cross-border M&A activities. ...