Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corp Part A 1.) On October 15‚ 1996‚ CSX Corporation (CSX) then ranked as the number one railroad in the Eastern United States and Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) then ranked as the third largest railroad in the Eastern United States‚ announced the intent to undergo a friendly merger via a two-tiered transaction with an estimated value of $8.4 billion. During the 1980’s a trend towards the consolidation of railroad firms began as a result
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JEFFREY A. KRUG MAJOR WORK MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS VOLUME I: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS I. Definitions and Concepts 1. Reed‚ Stanley Foster‚ Alexandra Reed Lajoux‚ and H. Peter Nesvold‚ The Art of M&A. New York‚ New York: McGraw-Hill‚ 2007‚ 4th Edition‚ Chapter 1‚ “Getting Started in Mergers and Acquisitions‚” pp. 1 – 8 (8 pages‚ one column‚ ISBN 0-07-140302-7). 2. Gaughan‚ Patrick A.‚ Mergers‚ Acquisitions‚ and Corporate Restructurings. Hoboken‚ New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc.‚ 2007
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ASSIGNMENT 1: Acquisition of Lodestone by Infosys Aayush Nangru | 11BM60023 In September 2012‚ Infosys announced the acquisition of Zurich-based Lodestone Holding AG‚ a leading management consultancy firm‚ for 330 million Swiss francs ($345 million or Rs.1‚925 crore). Lodestone advises international companies on strategy and process optimization‚ and provides business transformation solutions enabled by SAP ’s enterprise solutions. Lodestone clocked revenues of $210 million in 2011. Of this‚
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Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions Introduction Mergers and Acquisitions is referred to the aspect of corporate strategy‚ Finance and Management dealing with the purchase‚ sale‚ isolating and combining of different firms and similar entities that can help the enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of its origin or in a different sector or at a entirely new location without creating a subsidiary‚ a child entity or creation of a joint venture. Mergers and acquisitions are big part of the
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Hidden Champions in China Pearl River Piano Group Pearl River Piano Group (PRPG) was established in 1956‚ and it now owns the largest piano factory in the world. PRPG’s factory‚ which produced approximately 83‚000 pianos around the globe in 2008‚ is located in Guangzhou‚ China. PRPG now exports to more than 80 countries all over the world. Now PRPG dominates the domestic market‚ has a market share of 13% in America and enjoys a high growth. By the beginning of the 1980s‚ PRPG had become
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Introduction Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate restructuring are a big part of the corporate finance world. Every day‚ Wall Street investment bankers arrange M&A transactions‚ which bring individual companies to collectively form larger ones. When they ’re not creating big companies from smaller ones‚ corporate finance deals do the reverse
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Mergers and Acquisitions in Global Scenario By Shahwar Gul In the post- liberalization era‚ the demand for intense growth and development in business has paved the way for the companies to undergo the process of amalgamation‚ takeover‚ reconstruction and re-organization. Mergers and acquisitions have become imperative tools in structuring a new generation of organizations with the clout and resources to withstand and compete on a global basis. The field of M&A has undergone drastic and dramatic
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Mergers & Acquisitions (M & A) is a general term used to refer to the consolidation of companies. Merger is the corporate action where two companies decide to combine their operations. Both the companies involved in the merger cease to exist resulting into a combined new company. On the other hand Acquisition is a corporate action where one company overtakes the operations of other company. The acquired company thus becomes a part of the acquiring company. Acquisition may at some times be without
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The D. B. Cooper Mystery On November 27‚ 1971‚ in Portland‚ Oregon‚ a man claiming to be “Dan Cooper” bought a ticket for Northwest-Orient Airlines Flight 305 to Seattle‚ Washington. Dressed in a sharp dark suit with a pearl tiepin‚ this forty-five year-old man was about six feet tall with black hair (Abacha and Gilmore 233). No one would suspect him of going down in American history as the only man to ever escape capture after hijacking a U.S. plane (Warchol 1). Soon after takeoff‚ after having
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turn‚ others to slip down the proverbial “ethical slippery slope” and on the path to committing fraud. Cynthia Cooper‚ the Vice President of Internal Audit‚ was among the people who were pushed to compromise. When pushed‚ however‚ her instinct and ethical values could not be overrun by her personal desire to see Mississippi’s pride continue on in its deceptive success. Cynthia Cooper loved her company. She loved it because she too had been born and raised in Mississippi. The later location of
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