Valuation for M&A

<p><b>Determine a company’s value, what drives it, and how to enhance value during a M&A</b></p> <p><i>Valuation for M&A</i> lays out the steps for measuring and managing value creation in non-publicly traded entities, and helps investors, executives, and their advisors determine the optimum strategy to enhance both market value and strategic value and maximize return on investment.</p> <p>As a starting point in planning for a transaction, it is helpful to compute fair market value, which represents a “floor” value for the seller since it by definition represents a value agreed upon by any hypothetical willing and able buyer and seller.  But for M&A, it is more important to compute investment value, which is the value of the target company to a strategic buyer (and which can vary with each prospective buyer). </p> <ul> <li>Prepare for the sale and acquisition of a firm</li> <li>Identify, quantify, and qualify the synergies that increase value to strategic buyers</li> <li>Get access to new chapters on fairness opinions and professional service firms</li> <li>Find a discussion of Roger Grabowski’s writings on cost of capital, cross-border M&A, private cost of capital, intangible capital, and asset vs. stock transactions</li> </ul> <p>Inside, all the necessary tools you need to build and measure private company value is just a page away! </p>