Год выпуска: 0 Автор: Robert N. McCauley, Judith S. Rudd, Frank Iacono, Judith S. Ruud Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 0262133512
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"This is a brilliant book." -- J. Fred Weston, Professor Emeritus, The John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA "An excellent case history detailing the leverage excesses of the late 1980s and subsequent return to equity in the 1990s. Dodging Bullets appeals to both the academic searching for an alternative views of the period and the practitioner interested in lessons on managing financial crises." -- Stephen C. Vogt, Department of Finance, DePaul University and Mesirow Financial, Inc. The late 1980s saw a huge wave of corporate leveraging. The U.S. financial landscape was dominated by a series of high-stakes leveraged buyouts as firms replaced their equity with new fixed debt obligations. Cash-financed acquisitions and defensive share repurchases also decapitalized corporations. This trend culminated in the sensational debt-financed bidding for RJR-Nabisco, the largest leveraged buyout of all time, before dramatically reversing itself in the early 1990s with a...
