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GODS AT WAR: THE STORY OF M&A

3 October 2009 by Cullen Roche 0 Comments

Gods at War is about the factors that drive and sustain deal-making, particularly mergers and acquisitions. Gods at War examines these issues through a history of deal-making in the sixth takeover wave and thereafter in the financial crisis. It is about the private equity boom and its implosion, return of the strategic transaction and hostile takeover, material adverse change wars of 2007, failure of the investment banking model, emergence of sovereign wealth funds, government deal-making during the financial crisis, and revolution occurring in the capital markets during this time. Gods at War details how capital market participants construct deals, with a particular focus on the intricacies of deal-making’s legal aspects and deal theory, while placing this deal-making in economic and recent historical context. The downloadable paper includes the Table of Contents and the First Chapter of Gods at War:



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