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Post-divestiture LEC Management & Regulation: The slides talk about RBOC environment after divestiture, equal access and LD competition, beginnings of local competition, RBOC strategies, and major challenges post divestiture regulatory environment. It points out the required culture changes. The major challenges to change culture are also discussed. Further it reveals that it takes time to...; Tags: Corporate law, Financial accounting, divestiture, subsidy, regulation, corporate culture, environment, telecommunications, strategy, industry, network; Presentations
Divest and Conquer - How to Make Your Company a More Attractive Acquisition Target: The paper depicts that divesting a company is often seen as an admission of failure or a sure sign of a company in crisis. Yet, just as farmers prune their trees to help them grow; smart companies understand that divestitures are all part of the corporate lifecycle. While many divestitures...; Tags: Corporate law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial accounting, Hewitt Associates LLC, divestiture, core competency, acquisition, financial; White papers
Outsourcing Grows Up: Many Outsourcing Deals Are Tantamount to Strategic divestitures and Joint Ventures: Outsourcing deals have come a long way from the simple sourcing contracts that were once negotiated by the IT services department. Today's outsourcing agreements are huge, complex, and far more strategic in their goals - and in many ways, have come to resemble mergers, joint ventures, and divestitures in the...; Tags: Corporate law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial accounting, McKinsey & Co., outsourcing agreement, divestiture, outsourcing, sourcing, M&A, IT services, merger, information technology; White papers 2005-02-01
The Right Way to Divest: With growth accelerating in the major developed economies, more and more companies are taking systematic looks at their corporate portfolio. As they do, divestiture, or the sell-off of individual businesses, is fast rising to the top of the corporate-strategy agenda. The decision to divest should always be based on a...; Tags: Corporate law, Financial accounting, divestiture; White papers 2004-11-01
Efficiency and Value Creation in Acquisitions and divestitures: Evidence From the US Property-Liability Insurance Industry: This paper studies acquisitions and divestitures in the United States Property-Liability insurance industry. It estimates the valuation effects of firms' structural changes using an event study methodology; in particular, it examines the effects of diversification versus focus over the dimensions of both geographical areas and business sectors. The paper also...; Tags: Corporate law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial accounting, University of Pennsylvania, divestiture, acquisition, valuation, shareholder; White papers 2004-09-21

Putting Out the For-Sale Sign: Acquiring companies is a great way to earn credit for entrepreneurship and wise strategic decisions. Selling them, on the other hand, can evoke negative perceptions of weak management and insufficient market intelligence. Companies can maximize the value of their divestitures if they learn from others' past mistakes and follow a...; Tags: Corporate law, Sales strategy, Financial accounting, A.T. Kearney, divestiture, entrepreneurship, sales, strategy; White papers 2004-04-28
Synergies And Internal Agency Conflicts: The Double-Edged Sword Of Mergers: From the executive summary: ‘The paper investigates the interaction between synergies and internal agency conflicts that emerge within multi-division firms. The analysis yields several empirical implications concerning observed merger and divestiture activity. For diversifying mergers, post-merger valuation might increase degree of asset specificity. The diversification process justifies both an absence...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Asset management, Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., diversification, merger, agency, asset, divestiture, absence, valuation, analysis, industry; White papers 2004-01-01
Unscrambling the Eggs: FTC ALJ Orders divestiture in a Two-Year-Old Merger: This article discusses the case of FTC. On June 18, 2003, an FTC administrative judge issued an initial decision ordering divestiture in an acquisition that closed more than two years ago, in which Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I) acquired the Engineering Construction and the Water Divisions of Pitt-Des Moines,...; Tags: Corporate law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial accounting, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, FTC, divestiture, acquisition, antitrust, compliance, merger; Case studies 2003-07-01
The Art of Strategic Divestment: In a punishing economic climate, many companies turn to restructuring as a way to weather the storm. One way to do this, of course, is to slash costs and reduce capital expenditure. A more dramatic step is to sell off business units. However, disposing of a business unit is not...; Tags: Corporate law, Financial accounting, Accenture Ltd., divestiture, shareholder, acquisition, health care; White papers 2003-04-01
Close To Divest: Many companies are poised to shed failed acquisitions -- but few want to talk about it. Amid the uncertainty about just when deal making will resume in earnest, one thing is sure: the backlog of operations to be divested by companies is burgeoning. Indeed, business divestitures — often a byproduct...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Financial accounting, CFO Publishing Corp., divestiture, M&A, cable television, acquisition; White papers 2003-03-01
Antitrust divestiture in Network Industries: The landmark Microsoft case raises challenging questions concerning antitrust remedies. In this Article, one propose a framework for assessing the costs and benefits of different remedies, particularly divestiture, in monopolization cases involving network industries. The approach can assist a court or enforcement agency not only in analyzing the welfare effects...; Tags: Corporate law, Financial accounting, divestiture, antitrust, benefit, network, Microsoft Corp., industry; White papers 2003-01-01
Economic & Business Focus: Divest and Conquer: Companies that went on a buying binge in the last decade are shedding business units that don't fit their core capabilities. Century Business Services Inc. (CBiz), a Cleveland-based provider of outsourced business services, swallowed up 145 companies from 1997 to 1999 but sold off 24 operating entities over the past...; Tags: Corporate law, Financial accounting, Penton Media Inc., divestiture, core competency, acquisition, performance, strategy; Case studies 2003-01-01
A Portfolio Management Approach to Assessing Acquisition and divestiture Candidates: "The main focus of this presentation is basically upon approach for assessing Acquisition and Divestiture candidates. It outlines specific method for evaluation of A&D candidates. These are basic portfolio analysis process, typical questions addressed, examples of portfolio evaluations for both acquisitions and divestitures. All these have been discussed in detail....; Tags: Corporate law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial accounting, Portfolio Decisions Inc., divestiture, aerospace, acquisition, asset; White papers 2003-01-01
Sell Offs, Spin Offs, Carve Outs And Tracking Stock: The slides define divestitures as Selling assets, divisions, subsidiaries to another corporation or combination of corporations or individuals. The features of divestitures are discussed in this presentation. Selling corporation typically receives consideration for the assets sold – cash, securities and other assets. Divestitures are typically taxable events for selling...; Tags: Corporate law, Financial accounting, Asset management, Northwestern University, divestiture, asset, shareholder, stock, security; Presentations 2003-01-01
Valuation of Spin-Offs and divestitures: Following the frenzy of merger and acquisition activity, the current trend is towards more spin -offs and divestitures as companies rethink the strategic benefits of consolidation. These transactions are often complicated by a variety of issues centering around the entity’s transition from subsidiary status to separate company. From a valuation...; Tags: Corporate law, Financial accounting, Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, divestiture, valuation, M&A, advisor, adjustment, merger, benefit; White papers 2003-01-01
Mergers, LBOs, divestitures, And Holding Companies: The growth in corporate sector usually occurs due to internal expansion. The growth in normal capital budgeting activities leads to overall expansion of a firm. However, of late, the trend of corporate mergers has spread across the industrial sector resulting in increased profitability. The paper explains the concept of Mergers,...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Financial accounting, Financial services, University of West Georgia, divestiture, merger, LBO, budgeting; White papers 2003-01-01
Value Enhancement: Back to Basics: Using the DCF framework, there are four basic ways in which the value of a firm can be enhanced. These are the cash flows from existing assets to the firm can be increased, the expected growth rate in these cash flows can be increased, the length of the high growth...; Tags: Operational accounting, Corporate law, Financial accounting, Western Kentucky University, cash flow, divestiture, asset; Presentations 2003-01-01
Integrated Human Capital Management: Human Capital Management (HCM) involves all the programs and processes that deal with the human capital or human resources of your business. Article induces that traditional boundaries are freely crossed to achieve breakthrough results in efficiency, productivity, and ultimately return on investment (ROI). “Behind-the-scenes” management of complexity extends to the...; Tags: Corporate law, Hewitt Associates LLC, human capital, Human Resources, human capital management, divestiture, ROI, acquisition; White papers 2003-01-01
More Thoughts on Timing Your divestiture: The article asserts that many forces enter into the determination of whether it is a good time to sell any given business. To understand the many forces involved, it helps us to view them in the same way as biorhythms. One may recall that biorhythms recognize that certain personal interior...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, financing, divestiture, interest rate, tax; White papers 2003-01-01
Junk Bonds/Restructuring: The slides tell about junk bonds and restructuring. Milken coined the name “junk bonds.” It informs $100 million of junk bond proceeds for working capital. Junk bonds are top-performing US bond class recently Private sale. The different junk bonds are - Low-grade bonds, fallen angels, Chinese Paper. The rating agencies...; Tags: Investment, bond, divestiture, working capital, downsizing, M&A, equity, vision, agency, security; Presentations 2003-01-01