Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups

Excellent even without a companion text Kris R. Trafton This book is exceptional. It starts with providing the reader with the basics of distressed situations: the parties involved in restructuring, academic research regarding investment returns, the bankruptcy process, etc.The remainder of the book in primarily composed of case studies grouped into three categories (1) liability restruc. A Customer said Resource & Context in A Usable Form. Professor Gilson has added a readable, useful reference to the limited body of business literature concerned with corporate restructuring. Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring takes advantage of what the case method does best-the mixing of relevant reference material into a real world context. This book incorporates valuat. More Than Just a Bound Coursepak of Case Studies This is a TERRIFIC book, but it is a collection of terrific case studies and by that I mean the kind of case studies you would use in an MBA program. There are no conclusions drawn or analysis of the case or even questions to think about. There is also no follow up on the corporations included and how their plans were actually imple

Techniques include issuance of tracking stock, spin-offs, layoffs, plant closings, revisions of employee retirement benefits, and mergers. His prose is fluid and succinct and a pleasure to readThe text covers 13 corporate restructurings focusing on debt workouts, vulture investing, equity spinoffs, tracking stock, asset divestitures, employee layoffs, corporate downsizing, M & A, HLTs, wage give-backs, employee stock buyouts, and the restructuring of employee benefit plans. Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring also addresses company overhauls that occur outside the context of potential or actual bankruptcy. (The Journal of Corporate Renewal) . The book, which is written by Harvard Business School Professor Stuart Gilson, employs the case study method to examine the restructuring of the claims of creditors, shareholders, and employees. The exhibits are especially insightful and provide exa

Now, in the second edition of this bestselling book, Gilson returns to present new insight into corporate restructuring.Through real-world case studies that involve some of the most prominent restructurings of the last ten years, and highlighting the increased role of hedge funds in distressed investing, you'll develop a better sense of the restructuring process and how it can truly create value. An updated look at how corporate restructuring really worksStuart Gilson is one of the leading corporate restructuring experts in the United States, teaching thousands of students and consulting with numerous companies. In addition to "classic" buyout and structuring case studies, this second edition includes coverage of Delphi, General Motors, the Finova Group and Warren Buffett, Kmart and Sears, Adelphia Communications, Seagate Technology, Dupont-Conoco, and even the Eurotunnel debt restructuring.Covers corporate bankruptcy reorganization, debt