Previously published: Haywards Heath [England]: Tottel, c2008.

The high-yield leveraged bond and loan market (“junk bonds”) is now valued at $3+ trillion in North America, €1 trillion in Europe, and another $1 trillion in emerging markets. What’s more, based on the maturity schedules of current debt, it’s poised for massive growth. To successfully issue, evaluate, and invest in high-yield debt, however, financial professionals need credit and bond analysis skills specific to these instruments. Now, for the first time, there’s a complete, practical, and expert tutorial and workbook covering all facets of modern leveraged finance analysis. In A Pragmatist’s Guide to Leveraged Finance, Credit Suisse managing director Bob Kricheff explains why conventional analysis techniques are inadequate for leveraged instruments, clearly defines the unique challenges sellers and buyers face, walks step-by-step through deriving essential data for pricing and decision-making, and demonstrates how to apply it. Using practical examples, sample documents, Excel worksheets, and graphs, Kricheff covers all this, and much more: yields, spreads, and total return; ratio analysis of liquidity and asset value; business trend analysis; modeling and scenarios; potential interest rate impacts; evaluating and potentially escaping leveraged finance covenants; how to assess equity (and why it matters); investing on news and events; early stage credit; and creating accurate credit snapshots. This book is an indispensable resource for all investment and underwriting professionals, money managers, consultants, accountants, advisors, and lawyers working in leveraged finance. In fact, it teaches credit analysis skills that will be valuable in analyzing a wide variety of higher-risk investments, including growth stocks.

One of the main issues for a buyer making an acquisition is how to finance it. Acquisition Finance, 2nd edition considers the commercial factors that influence the choice of finance and analyses the most common forms of debt and equity finance. Offering in depth expert advice it provides a full picture for each scenario of the transaction structure and process from the initial commercial stages, to the structuring aspects, due diligence process, the legal documentation process (including a detailed look at the various legal documents required), to funding and completion. The second edition includes coverage of the following changes in the financial market: Impact of the credit crunch on the acquisition finance market and the terms currently available to borrowers (pricing, level of restriction, balance of negotiating power between lenders and borrowers); Types of acquisition finance currently available (less mezzanine finance, less second lien debt, but high yield debt market strengthening); Typical funding structures in the post-credit crunch market; How the financial assistance rules apply to buyouts since October 1, 2009; Changes to the players in the acquisition finance market, including the increasing involvement of non-bank lenders; Continued evolution of the private equity market; Current state of the public-to-private market and its regulation reflecting changes to the Takeover Code since 2008. Includes the following legislation and case law: Companies Act 2006 - how the financial assistance rules apply to buyouts since October 1, 2009; Changes to the Takeover Code since publication of the 1st edition in 2008; Makdessi v Cavendish Square Holdings BV and another (Appeal) [2013] EWCA Civ 1539; Re Uniq Plc [2011] EWHC 749 (Ch); Barclays Bank Plc and others v HHY Luxembourg SARL & Anor (Rev 1) [2010] EWCA Civ 1248. Previous print edition ISBN: 9781845920173

One of the main issues for a buyer making an acquisition is how to finance it. Acquisition Finance, 2nd edition considers the commercial factors that influence the choice of finance and analyses the most common forms of debt and equity finance. Offering in depth expert advice it provides a full picture for each scenario of the transaction structure and process from the initial commercial stages, to the structuring aspects, due diligence process, the legal documentation process (including a detailed look at the various legal documents required), to funding and completion. The second edition includes coverage of the following changes in the financial market: Impact of the credit crunch on the acquisition finance market and the terms currently available to borrowers (pricing, level of restriction, balance of negotiating power between lenders and borrowers); Types of acquisition finance currently available (less mezzanine finance, less second lien debt, but high yield debt market strengthening); Typical funding structures in the post-credit crunch market; How the financial assistance rules apply to buyouts since October 1, 2009; Changes to the players in the acquisition finance market, including the increasing involvement of non-bank lenders; Continued evolution of the private equity market; Current state of the public-to-private market and its regulation reflecting changes to the Takeover Code since 2008. Includes the following legislation and case law: Companies Act 2006 - how the financial assistance rules apply to buyouts since October 1, 2009; Changes to the Takeover Code since publication of the 1st edition in 2008; Makdessi v Cavendish Square Holdings BV and another (Appeal) [2013] EWCA Civ 1539; Re Uniq Plc [2011] EWHC 749 (Ch); Barclays Bank Plc and others v HHY Luxembourg SARL & Anor (Rev 1) [2010] EWCA Civ 1248. Previous print edition ISBN: 9781845920173

"... Is a comprehensive primer on investment banking. It is rooted in practical advice as well as experience-based methods, and provides clear descriptions and numerical examples of many of the analyses undertaken on the job. Designed to demystify this closed-door world, The Practitioner's Guide clarifies and explains many of the formal and informal aspects of investment banking."--Book flap.

Mergers and Acquisitions, Law and Finance, Fourth Edition

This book deals with corporate mergers and acquisitions by analyzing the financial and strategic aspects. It starts with a chronological justification of the evolution of external growth operations and ends with case studies in order to put into practice the theoretical contribution of the previous titles. Through this book, we wish to detail the types of mergers and acquisitions, their modes, their motivations, their consequences and their performances. First of all, we propose a panoply of scientific research, methodological explanations and logical structuring to expose a subject of experience considered for a long time as a phenomenon in finance. Then, through a sample of 90 mergers or acquisitions, we analyze the effects of these transactions on French companies.