M&A: A Practical Guide to Doing the Deal

by Jeffrey C. Hooke

Book Overview

Disney has done it. Chemical Bank has also. So, too, have thousands of other companies. In fact, it has become a staple of American business today: mergers and acquisitions. Spreading across all industry lines and encompassing corporations both large and small, merger and acquisition deals are booming. In 1995 alone, the value of all announced deals exceeded $300 billion, including Disney's $19 billion acquisition of Capital Cities and Chemical Bank's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471144622
• ISBN13: 9780471144625
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Need To Get Up To Speed On M & A? Buy This Book.

This is the first, best, and only choice for those interested in a thorough and easy to understand introduction into mergers & acquisitions. It is particularly well-suited to senior executives of middle-market companies, first-year M & A analysts, and MBA candidates. Of course, for senior M & A advisors, Hooke's book is also the perfect "leave behind" to educate prospective clients on the entire M & A process.However, if I had the opportunity to extend a single suggestion to Jeffrey Hooke for future editions, it would be: Have a new cover designed which more fully reflects the level of quality and excitement of the text!!!

Terrific review of M & A process

I'm a CFO of a middle market company in Chicago, and I bought the book after a friend suggested it. My firm is trying to grow through acquisition, and the book explained many of the concepts well with examples. Hooke was an investment banker for 10 years, so he has a good real world view.

Terrific and practical summary of doing M & A deals!

This book is a terrific primer to tell the reader how to design a strategy to grow his company by acquisition, to find companies to buy, how to price the deals, how to crunch the numbers so the buyer isn't paying to much and how to negotiate to close the deal. Hooke really gives the benefit of his experience at Lehman Brothers and Schroders. The book was like listening to an investment banker give me a personal lecture on what to look out for when considering an M & A deal. So many of the bankers I talk to are less than straightforward, and the book really added to my knowledge of how this specialized market operates.The last few chapters cover some specialized areas like LBO's and consolidations and roll-ups. Hooke addresses these subject matters in a practical way that I haven't seen elsewhere. The book is really worth the investment.

Well written

Excellent for explaining the practical side of the business. Has enough examples to give you a first cut at understanding M & A. Not a great valuation book, but then it doesn't profess to be.