Due Diligence: The Critical Stage in Acquistions and Mergers
This book is a comprehensive manual on getting due diligence right. It is a uniquely comprehensive guide, covering all aspects of the process from financial, legal and commercial due diligence right through to environmental and intellectual property due diligence. There are also useful chapters on working with advisers and managing due diligence projects. It also includes a number of checklists to help ensure that the right questions are asked.
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A Commercial Due Diligence specialist based in London, Howson explains a stage of acquiring and merging companies that entails buyers poking around for any information about the seller that may indicate that the deal may not be in their best interest. It comes after the broad terms have been discussed and before negotiations leading to a completed deal. To the person actually conducting the process, he explains what information is needed; where and how to get it; and how the various professionals, lawyers, accountants, and management consultants go about their work. Among the realms he examines are finances, pensions, tax, technology, and insurance. Distributed in the US by Ashgate. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
List of tablesList of figuresPreface1Introduction12How to structure a due diligence programme143Working with advisers304Financial due diligence455Legal due diligence686Commercial due diligence777Human Resources due diligence1058Management due diligence1259Pensions due diligence14110Tax due diligence14811Environmental due diligence16512IT & production technology due diligence17813Technology due diligence18614Intellectual property due diligence19115Antitrust due diligence20116Insurance and risk management due diligence213Appendix A216App. B258Notes275Index281
