Company Acquisitions Handbook 9th ed

Company Acquisitions Handbook 9th edition is an essential step-by-step guide to the acquisition process from some of the leading corporate strategy and corporate finance experts.

This hugely practical guide covers all aspects of the corporate acquisition process. From the strategic decision to make an acquisition, to planning and implementation, all the way through to post acquisition management.

Anybody involved in acquiring companies - legal advisers, chairmen, company secretaries, corporate executives, mergers and acquisitions professionals - will benefit from the easy to follow step-by-step instructions and a huge amount of legal knowledge.

Essential new content and coverage include:

• The Comanies Act 2006
• Expansion of EU Member States
• The Takeover Directive and changes as result of the Takeover Panel's consultation paper on schemes of management
• Replacement of PPC and waste management licensing by Environmental Permits
• Changes of income and capital gains tax provisions following the finance act
• Introduction of the new International Financial Reporting Standard on business combinations accounting for periods commencing on or after 1st January 2009
• Case law developments in all the chapters
• Developments in practice and institutional guidelines, and approach