Valuation for M&A: Building and Measuring Private Company Value (Wiley Finance)

Determine a companys value, what drives it, and how to enhance value during a M&AValuation for M&A lays out the steps for measuring and managing value creation in nonpublicly 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.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). Prepare for the sale and acquisition of a firm Identify, quantify, and qualify the synergies that increase value to strategic buyers Get access to new chapters on fairness opinions and professional service firms Find a discussion of Roger Grabowskis writings on cost of capital, crossborder M&A, private cost of capital, intangible capital, and asset vs. stock transactionsInside, all the necessary tools you need to build and measure private company value is just a page away!