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For undergraduate and graduate level Finance, General Business, and Business Administration, Basic Economics, and Social Science courses covering strategic mergers and acquisitions and corporate valuation.

This important casebook provides an accessible presentation of case studies involving corporate mergers and acquisitions. It is a complete, yet concise, text that synthesizes recent available literature on takeovers, mergers, restructuring, and corporate governance within a logical, analytical structure. Each case study provides students with insight and understanding of the rationale for the adjustments firms are making in today's changing economies.

• 24 new cases represent significant mergers–Includes case studies of companies such as Dow/Union Carbide, Daimler/Chrysler, AOL/Time Warner, and Viacom/CBS.

  • Illustrates for students the nature and reasons for mergers in important industries.

• Major economic policy implications.

  • Shows students the economic significance of modern business and corporate finance, through studies of mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and corporate governance.

• Business/professional relevance–A high proportion of business students are hired into investment banking firms, venture capital companies, banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions to work on M&As.

• Important professional opportunities–In most business firms today, company presidents, CFOs, directors of planning and development, and the heads of major functions such as research, legal, manufacturing, and marketing are involved in some form of merger planning and integration activities.

• No other existing casebook on mergers and restructuring.

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 1. The Ingersoll-Rand Acquisition of Clark Equipment.


 2. Acquisition of CCH by Wolters Kluwer nv.


 3. Growth Opportunities and the Dynamic Financial Strategies of MCI.


 4. Office Depot and Staples.


 5. WorldCom/Sprint.


 6. Purchase Accounting: Time Warner, AOL, WorldCom.


 7. Compaq Computer Corp. Acquisition of Digital Equipment Corp.


 8. Alcoa/Reynolds Metals.


 9. Masco's Acquisition and Diversification Strategy.


10. Clark's Purchase of Club Car.


11. The World Defense Business.


12. Glaxo Acquisition of Wellcome.


13. Dow Chemical/Union Carbide.


14. Fashion, Inc.


15. Tech.com.


16. From Hattiesburg to Wall Street: The Story of WorldCom.


17. The Viacom/CBS Merger.


18. The AOL/Time Warner Merger.


19. Scott Paper and Sunbeam: A Contrast.


20. The GM/Toyota Vows: A Reply to the Critics.


21. Daimler-Benz/Chrysler Corporation.


22. Vodafone's International Acquisitions.


23. Tribune/Times Mirror.


24. AT&T's Renewal.

Cases in Finance  (Finance)
Mergers and Acquisitions  (Finance)

J. Fred Weston is Professor Emeritus Recalled of Managerial Economics and Finance at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1948. He has published 31 books, 147 journal articles, and chaired 32 doctoral dissertations. Since 1968 he has been Director of the UCLA Research Program on Takeovers and Restructuring.

Dr. Weston has served as President of the American Finance Association, President of the Western Economic Association, President of the Financial Management Association, and as a member of the American Economic Association U.S. Census Advisory Committee. In 1978, he was selected as one of five outstanding teachers on the UCLA campus. In 1994, he received the Dean's Award for Outstanding Instruction in the Anderson School at UCLA. He has been an associate editor on a number of journals. He has been selected as a Fellow of the American Finance Association, of the Financial Management Association, and of the National Association of Business Economists.

Illustrative publications: Weston, Siu, and Johnson, <>Takeovers, Restructuring, and Corporate Governance, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 2000; Weston and Copeland, Managerial Finance, Ninth Edition, 1998 Update; Copeland and Weston, Financial Theory and Corporate Policy, Third Edition, Addison Wesley, 1988; Weston, "Strategy and Business Economics," Business Economics, April 1989; Weston, Acquisitions Handbook, 1993; Chen, Weston, and Altman, "Financial Distress and Restructuring Models," Financial Management, Summer 1995; Weston and Chiu, "Growth Strategies in the Food Industry," Business Economics, January 1996; Weston and Siu, "Restructuring in the U.S. Oil Industry" (1996), and Weston, Johnson, and Siu, "Mergers and Restructuring in the World Oil Industry" (1999), Journal of Energy Finance & Development; Weston, Jawien, and Levitas, "Restructuring and Its Implications for Business Economics" (January 1998), and Weston, Johnson, and Siu, "M&As in the Evolution of the Global Chemical Industry" (October 1999) MBusiness Economics.

He has been a consultant to business firms and governments on financial and economic policies since the early 1950's. Professor Weston has held professional consulting assignments with Bank of America, Lockheed, Transmerica, Boeing, Hughes Aircraft, Crocker Bank, Reading Railroad, Litton, General Electric, Westinghouse, Quaker Oats, Sun Harbor Tuna, Eli Lilly Co., Hoffman-LaRoche, 3M Company, General Motors, GAO, IRS, U.S. Department of Commerce-Bureau of the Census, Shoenfeld Industries, Chevron, Morgan Stanley & Co., and AT&T.

From the script of Professor J. Fred Weston comes an important First Edition case book on firms in the new economic environment. The cases take a dynamic view of how firms adapt and evolve in their changing and challenging environments. The real-life cases in this volume include successes and failures and overlap the traditional areas of business finance. The twenty-four studies include MCI, Staples/Office Depot, WorldCom/Sprint AOL/Time Warner, the Defense Industry, Daimler/Chrysler, GM/Toyota, Dow/Union Carbide, and the AT&T Restructuring. An Instructor's Manual, written by the author, is available to download from the Finance website at www.prenhall.com or go to www.prenhall.com/weston.

You can order a custom version of Cases in Dynamic Finance, Mergers and Restructuring through Pearson Custom Publishing., For more information on this, contact your local Prentice Hall representative: or visit the custom site at www.pearsoncustom.com.

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