German Mergers & Acquisitions in the USA

Download or read book German Mergers & Acquisitions in the USA written by Bernd Wübben and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernd Wübben analyzes the success of 87 German mergers and acquisitions in the USA during the period from 1990 to 2004. Employing a study of the capital markets’ reaction and a survey of acquirers’ executives, he shows that US transactions on average enhanced value for German companies and their shareholders. The author integrates the findings of both methodologies to identify the determinants of transaction success, including characteristics of the German acquiring and the US target companies as well as of the acquisition structure and management.