In an acquisition, sometimes it’s advisable to look at the option of buying all/parts of its business assets, contracts, patents,etc instead of owning the company.
Reasons might be:

that acquirer might not want to entangle itself with the existing liabilities in the acquired company;
off-balance sheet liabilities that might be omitted during the due diligence( quite messy to […]

Recently, reported in The Edge Malaysia(16/10/06), is a relatively small M&A where one party (Nestle) announced that it is divesting its non-core product area and for operational efficiency and the other party (F&N) believe it is acquiring much synergies/benefits from this proposed deal.
The proposed deal:
Fraser & Neave Holdings Bhd (F&N) plans to acquire the Nestle […]

Besides organic growth, hypermarket giants has frequently embarked on acquisition trail to buy up other chains as a quick way for its expansion plan. ( refer earlier article on reasons for companies to go M&A trail.)
Recently, reported in The Edge (6/10/06), there is this proposed acquisition by GCH Retail for Makro:
“GCH Retail (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd […]

During the course of M & A exercise, we often encounter the needs to value the securities of the acquired company.
As we know there are various methods of valuing securities and the more common ones are as follows:

Based on stock market quotation;
Net assets or Balance Sheet […]

In earlier articles, we understand that many M&A exercises were unsuccessful.
Rather than re-invent the wheel, it’s good to learn certain lessons from successful M&A exercises particularly from Cisco which is a Master Integrator which not only is adept at acquiring companies and but is as adept at quickly and effectively integrating […]