Mergers & Acquisitions: Managing the Transaction [Hardcover]

Joseph Krallinger (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1997

Mergers & Acquisitions: Managing the Transaction is the first book to walk you through the entire M&A process whether you are a buyer OR a seller. From Chapter 1 (The Urge to Merge) through Chapter 12 (Managing the Closing and Post-Closing Issues) Joseph Krallinger's detailed and insightful book includes all the information you will need, plus detailed appendixes covering both legal paperwork and purchase investigation work, to help you arrive at a profitable and advantageous deal.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786311665
• ISBN-13: 978-0786311668
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,921,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is a stinker!!, August 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mergers & Acquisitions: Managing the Transaction (Hardcover)

I struggled to read this diatribe on Mr. Krallinger's years of M&A experience. The author tries to layout the M&A process to the average business person. He provides an appendix full of checklists, a timeline, and some very common sense do's and don't's. The rest of the book is filled with the author's unsubstantiated assertions, poor economic thinking, and xenophobic biases.

I brought the book to better understand the M&A process from a gritty, in-the-trenches prospective, but walked away feeling that I wasted my time filtering out the author's failings to find a few good nuggets.

Don't waste your time and money on this one.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Primer, Not for The Detailed Practicioner, June 14, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Mergers & Acquisitions: Managing the Transaction (Hardcover)

At a very high level, Krallinger hits the right points for someone totally unfamilliar with the territory. His bulletted writing style makes for quick, easy reading, but requires you to do the reflection on them later on. I sympathize with other reviewers who found this book pithy and shallow, but they may have been looking for a much more detailed tome. This book prepares the reader to recognize at a high level what the issues are and provides a framework for working through them. That's it. It was perfect for me -- I had one night to think of good things to say before making a presentation that included some M&A issues the next day. All I needed was to be able to identify the issues. For that this is an excellent book. If you really spend time to deconstruct the bullet points, it is probably more profound, and for better or worse, the author left that work to the reader instead of writing a 1,000 page book.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Total waste of paper., September 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mergers & Acquisitions: Managing the Transaction (Hardcover)

This book is characterized by poor writing, sloppy reasoning, and shallow content. Look elsewhere unless you have too much time and money on your hands.