Divestitures: Creating Value Through Strategy, Structure, and Implementation

Today’s best-known expert on the topic shows business leaders how to  dramatically increase corporate value through smart, strategic  divestitures

You've focused on mergers and acquisitions, but how  much do you know about divestitures? Wharton Professor Emilie R. Feldman  provides a comprehensive primer on what strategic objectives  divestitures can achieve, which businesses divestitures typically  involve, what divestiture structures companies can choose from, and how  to implement divestitures to maximize their financial benefits.

Divestitures  are among the hottest transactional structures today. Divestitures:  Creating Value Through Strategy, Structure, and Implementation shows  executives, board members, transactional advisors, educators, and others  how strategic divestitures can be used to enhance corporate value and  performance. The book is organized into three sections:
Strategy:  Remove problems, improve focus, reconfigure the corporate portfolio, and  address regulatory requirementsStructure: Sales, spinoffs, equity  carveouts, Reverse Morris Trusts, joint ventures, and tracking  stocksImplementation: Separate the divested business, reconfigure  internal processes, and reshape external perceptions

This  essential book fills major gaps in the professional and academic  markets, providing the only available rigorous, research-based treatment  of this important strategic tool.