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A Giant Cow-Tipping By Savages
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The Boom, Bust, and Boom Culture of M&A
Palgrave
October 2013
On Sale: October 15, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 0230341810
EAN: 9780230341814
Kindle: B00F8GKG5U
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Modern mergers and acquisitions, or M&A as it's more
commonly known, is a new phenomenon. The buying and selling,
the breaking up and combining of companies—the essence of
M&A—has been a part of commerce throughout history, but only
in our era has M&A itself become a business. In 2007, before
the recession hit, it was a $4.4 trillion global enterprise.
And yet, it remains largely unexplored. Discrete stories
have been pulled from the annals of M&A, both true and
fictionalized, that have become touchstones for wealth and
excess. Who can forget Gordon Gekko and his "Greed is Good"
speech? But while there have been a few iconic characters
and tales to emerge, no one has told the rich history of
M&A, until now. This is a look into that world and the
people who created it. This reads like Dallas meets Wall
Street, told through an intriguing narrative that not only
brings to light in gritty detail all of the back room drama
of such powerful players as Carl Icahn and Ronald Perelman,
Marty Lipton and Joe Flom, Jimmy Goldsmith and Sumner
Redstone, but also reveals how the new generation, including
activist whirlwind Bill Ackman and iconoclastic new Delaware
judge Leo Strine, will dominate the next tsunamic, and
imminent, M&A boom.
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