The Best Mergers & Acquisitions Books 2025

1. Buyout: The Insider's Guide to Buying Your Own Company, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

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Buyout: The Insider's Guide to Buying Your Own Company, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

2. Managing Change and Transition, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

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Managing Change and Transition, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

3. Applied Mergers and Acquisitions, Used [Hardcover]

A comprehensive guide to the world of mergers and acquisitions Why do so many M&A transactions fail? And what drives the success of those deals that are consummated? Robert Bruner explains that M&A can be understood as a response by managers to forces of turbulence in their environment. Despite the material failure rates of mergers and acquisitions, those pulling the trigger on key strategic decisions can make them work if they spend great care and rigor in the development of their M&A deals. By addressing the key factors of M&A success and failure, Applied Mergers and Acquisitions can help readers do this. Written by one of the foremost thinkers and educators in the field, this invaluable resource teaches readers the art and science of M&A valuation, deal negotiation, and bargaining, and provides a framework for considering tradeoffs in an effort to optimize the value of any M&A deal.

Applied Mergers and Acquisitions, Used [Hardcover]

4. Taking Charge: Management Guide to Troubled Companies and Turn Arounds [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Covers cash control, banking relationships, risk control, leadership, equity, and reorganization, and tells how to turn companies around before they need serious attention.

Taking Charge : Management Guide to Troubled Companies and Turnarounds, Used [Hardcover]

5. Business Buyout Agreements: A Step-by-Step Guide for Co-Owners [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Everything partners need to create a business prenup that will protect a business if someone leaves. If you're like many entrepreneurs, being in business means working with one or more co-owners. But what will happen to your company if a co-owner: wants out of the business wants to retire goes through personal bankruptcy wants to sell his shares to someone else goes through a divorce or passes away? Business Buyout Agreements walks you through the creation of a legal contract -- a sort of premarital agreement for your business -- that protects everyone's interests. This document will help ensure a smooth transition following someone's departure. Clarify: when co-owners can sell their interest the circumstances when someone must sell who can buy into the business what price will be paid Business Buyout Agreements is updated with the latest laws, and includes a complete business buyout agreement on CD-ROM.

Business Buyout Agreements : A Step-by-Step Guide for Co-Owners, Used [Paperback]

6. M&a Titans : The Pioneers Who Shaped Wall Street's Mergers and Acquisitions Industry, Used [Hardcover]

This book focuses on the 11 men, lawyers and bankers, who are responsible for the creation of Wall Street's merger industry. It specifically concentrates on the events and personalities who dominated Wall Street during the takeover battles of the 1970s and 1980s. Lawyers Joe Flom and Marty Lipton, the godfathers of modern M&A, educated bankers on takeover laws and regulations as well as tactics. Flom and Lipton were also superlative businessmen who built their own firms to become Wall Street powerhouses. The two men drew into their orbit a circle of bankers. Felix Rohatyn, Ira Harris, Steve Friedman, Geoff Boisi, Eric Gleacher and Bruce Wasserstein were close to Lipton. Robert Greenhill and Joe Perella were close to Flom. M&A Titans provides insight into the culture of the different investment banks and how each of the bankers influenced the firms they worked in as they became more powerful. Some such as Gleacher, Harris, Wasserstein, Perella and Greenhill clashed with the men running their firms and left. Others such as Friedman and Boisi stayed and profoundly influenced how the firm did business. The career of Michael Milken, perhaps the notorious name on Wall Street in the 1980s, is also examined as well as the actions and tactics of his firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. Milken and Drexel paved the way for the growth of private equity and helped popularize attacks on management by investors such as Boone Pickens and Carl Icahn.

M&a Titans : The Pioneers Who Shaped Wall Street's Mergers and Acquisitions Industry, Used [Hardcover]

7. The Middle-Market Business Acquisition Directory and Source Book [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The Middle-Market Leveraged Financing Directory and Source Book

The Middle-Market Business Acquisition Directory and Source Book, Used [Hardcover]

8. How to Buy a Business, Used [Paperback]

How to Buy a Business guides you through the small business marketplace and shows how to locate the right business at the right time fort the right price. You'll be equipped with everything you need to know from the technical aspects to management issues, including the following: finding and evaluating candidates for acquisition; determining future and current value; preparing a letter of intent; financing, negotiating and structuring the deal; and choosing the best form of business ownership, and more. Join the millions of small businesses that are the vital backbone of the economy. How to Buy a Business gives you the hands-on information and tactics you need to make the leap into business ownership.

How to Buy a Business, Used [Paperback]

9. Mergers: Leadership, Performance and Corporate Health [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Drawing on their own extensive integration experience, the systematic analysis of 167 mergers, and cutting edge academic research, the authors of this book identify the common leadership challenges to be tackled for the achievement of what we call 'corporate health', the most thorough and sustainable test of merger success.

Mergers : Leadership, Performance and Corporate Health, Used [Hardcover]

10. Takeovers, Restructuring, and Corporate Governance (4th Edition) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This book brings together conceptual and empirical material in a systematic way. It provides readers with a basis for understanding mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring that are introduced into every session of Congress. The volume provides a complete review of takeovers and mergers in practice, M&A's in theory and practice, the strategic perspective of valuation, restructuring, M&A strategies and strategies for creating value. For CEOs, COOs, CFOs and other top level executives.

Takeovers, Restructuring, and Corporate Governance, Used [Paperback]