This text focuses on applied due diligence skills in the context of a negotiated transaction such as a purchase and sale, merger, joint venture, or similar setting. It is designed to assist transactional professionals in: (i) understanding basic due diligence concepts applicable to negotiated transactions, (ii) developing and enhancing applied due diligence skills in that context, and (iii) negotiating economic terms and other contractual provisions using the knowledge gained through due diligence.

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The only offering of its kind, Negotiating Business Transactions: An Extended Simulation Course contains facts and contextual materials, negotiating instructions for each side, and background readings on all aspects of the transaction. The text is an introduction to both negotiations and transactional legal practice, and meets the ABA practical skills requirements. By bringing a business deal into the classroom, the text helps students study objectives, structures, and strategies and learn by doing in a setting where mistakes become lessons--not malpractice. The text enables students to develop negotiating and drafting skills as they experience the ""real time"" challenges of negotiating deals. Students explore the interaction between business and legal issues in the context of structuring those deals. Then, they can apply what they have learned to produce a solution that meets the client's objectives and is acceptable to the counterparty. Finally, by understanding the social and environmental impacts of business transactions, students can more fully explore issues of professional responsibility in negotiations. Student response has been consistently and overwhelmingly positive. Features: meets ABA practical skills requirements contains simulation materials facts and contextual materials negotiating instructions for each side background readings on all aspects of the transaction introduction to both negotiations and transactional legal practice brings a business deal into the classroom to study objectives, structures and strategies an opportunity to learn by doing in a setting where mistakes are lessons, not malpractice enables students to: experience the ""real time"" challenges of negotiating a business deal explore the interaction between business and legal issues in the context of negotiating and structuring a business deal apply legal knowledge to produce a business solution that meets the client's objectives and is acceptable to the counterparty develop negotiating and drafting skills understand the social and environmental impacts of business transactions examine professional responsibility issues in negotiations student response is consistently and overwhelmingly positive syllabus alternative class formats sample lecture outlines for issues raised by the simulation sample PowerPoint slides debriefing issues

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, BVL Campus gGmbH, 26 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This term paper focuses on the idea and structure of the due diligence process and its applicability during company merger & acquisition (M&A) activities. Unfortunately 40% - 85% of company M&A still do not live up to the acquirers' expectations or even fail completely due to information asymmetries. The analytical approach of the due diligence process represents a way to overcome gaps in company analysis and evaluations. Initial point of this paper is a description of the basics in the process of company M&A and the main reasons for their failure. The due diligence is an approach to apply best practices out of the financial market routine in order to overcome these critical problems. In this light the different operational steps of the due diligence process as well as its most commonly functional applications and their specific attributes are examined. It is shown that information is the paramount groundwork for a representative company assessment. Due to reoccurring analysis failures during contemporary M&A activities the due diligence concept is a useful approach to avoid imprecise handling of information.

A comprehensive guide to the world of mergers and acquisitions Why do so many M&A transactions fail? And what drives the success of those deals that are consummated? Robert Bruner explains that M&A can be understood as a response by managers to forces of turbulence in their environment. Despite the material failure rates of mergers and acquisitions, those pulling the trigger on key strategic decisions can make them work if they spend great care and rigor in the development of their M&A deals. By addressing the key factors of M&A success and failure, Applied Mergers and Acquisitions can help readers do this. Written by one of the foremost thinkers and educators in the field, this invaluable resource teaches readers the art and science of M&A valuation, deal negotiation, and bargaining, and provides a framework for considering tradeoffs in an effort to optimize the value of any M&A deal.

This desk book presents a complete overview of the due diligence process and gives attorneys, legal assistants and allied professionals the tools they need to conduct more efficient investigation.