The Art of M&A Integration, Second Edition, supplies the expert insight, analysis, strategies, and tools you need to successfully manage every aspect of a post-merger integration.

Corporate integration expert Alexandra Reed Lajoux's The Art of M&A Integration gives you time-tested strategies and practices on handling the hundreds of details that spell the difference between corporate growth or financial disaster. More than theoretical research and details, The Art of M&A Integration brings you the stories of companies both large and small involved in the M&A process.

Thoroughly updated and revised, The Art of M&A Integration features up-to-the-minute coverage of a variety of topics that have taken center stage over the past several years, including:

• New GAAP and FASB accounting rules
• The latest strategies for merging IT systems and processes
• Merging compensation plans
• New listing rules on the NASDAQ and NYSE
• The effect of Sarbanes-Oxley and new SEC regulations
• How recent mega-mergers are rewriting the book on M&A integration
• Cross-border integration issues impacting multinational M&As.