As M&A Bounces Back, PLI Publishes Guide to Successful Deal-Making

NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Financial Times reported in January that M&A deal volume had already surpassed $83 billion in 2011 and was "higher than in any year-to-date period since 2000." In response to this resurgence, Practising Law Institute (PLI) has published Mergers, Acquisitions and Tender Offers: Law and Strategies to provide comprehensive, practical guidance to completing effective transactions and avoiding trouble.

Written by Samuel Thompson, Jr., one of the nation's leading authorities on M&A transactions and currently a professor of law at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law, this one-stop resource offers attorneys and allied business professionals the most complete and useful coverage of the key issues faced in domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. These include contract drafting; due diligence; corporate and federal securities law; tax, accounting and valuation issues and techniques; antitrust concerns; premerger notification rules; and attorneys' legal and ethical responsibilities.

The treatise's well-stocked toolkit includes real-world acquisition agreements, a confidentiality agreement and letter of intent, annotated IPO on Form S-1, private offering memorandum, SEC disclosure documents for recent public company negotiated acquisitions, tender offer documents, required SEC reports, investment banker engagement letters, and recent M&A deal documents.

In addition to an acquirer's due diligence checklist for the target company, Mergers, Acquisitions and Tender Offers: Law and Strategies provides a comprehensive checklist guide to structuring the principal forms of acquisition transactions, covering issues common to these deals and matters specific to each type of transaction.

The four-volume Mergers, Acquisitions and Tender Offers: Law and Strategies is $395 and is available for a 30-day free examination.

About the Author

Samuel Thompson is a professor of law and the founder and director of Penn State's Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions. The Center examines corporate, securities, tax, antitrust, and other legal and economic issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions and hosts continuing legal education programs addressing these issues. He is the author of sixteen books and more than 75 articles on corporate and international tax, corporate governance, and antitrust law.

About PLI

Practising Law Institute (PLI) is a non-profit continuing legal education organization dedicated to providing the legal community with the most up-to-date information available. Founded in 1933, PLI has a continuing mission to enhance the professionalism of attorneys and other qualified persons by providing the highest quality and most innovative programs. PLI also offers one-hour briefings, online CLE, publications, and other services to enable attorneys to practice competently and ethically, as well as to fulfill pro bono responsibilities. PLI offers more than 300 programs annually in locations across the United States, including live webcasts, interactive multimedia, web programs, course handbooks, and annually supplemented treatises. In addition, PLI annually awards more than 3,000 full and partial scholarships to its programs. Learn more about PLI at www.pli.edu.

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