Mergers and acquistions

Mergers and acquistions

**** Stages in mergers and acquistions

2005: Year of the deal?

2005 M&As at 2000 levels

2005 mergers by segment

2006 spring: merger mania

2006 first half: new record

2006: Private equity deals

2007: Notes on upcoming deals

Acquisition panic

Bidding wars

Bigger not necessarily better

Broken mergers

Build or buy?

Buying brands

Buying, then selling

China buys Western brands

Competition matrix

Concentration measures

Consolidation and fear

Consumers and mergers

Customer satisfaction and mergers

De-acquiring

Defining industry segments

End of antitrust

End of the M&A bubble? (8/07)

Equity bubble?

Equity buyouts: what's behind them?

Equity firms as buffers

Equity firms as oligopolies

Equity firms' role

European antitrust

European mergers at record pace

Funeral industry

Gaming industry mergers

Gin rummy more

Greed and mergers

Grow or die

Hostile takeovers

Lubricating mergers

Merger compensation

Merger mania 2

Mergers always failures?

Mergers and acquistions boom -- 100 years ago

Mergers and acquistions - how big?

Merger arbitrageurs

Mergers in a down economy

Private equity stumbles

Privaye/public equity

Spain and acquisitions

"Strategic buyers" vs. equity firms

Sweet deals for execs

Ulterior motives for mergers

Unlocking value