With the creation of shareholder value lying at the centre of corporate activity, finance directors, chief executives and chairmen are under pressure to drive shareholder value. By ensuring that the business is best structured financially, the finance director can play a role in generating shareholder value.

With the creation of shareholder value lying at the centre of corporate activity, finance directors, chief executives and chairmen are under pressure to drive shareholder value. By ensuring that the business is best structured financially, the finance director can play a role in generating shareholder value.

Corporate Transactions

is an indispensable guide to the many business techniques that can add shareholder value. The briefing provides accessible technical and practical guidance on how to successfully handle share buybacks, capital repayments, demergers and reconstructions. It focuses on the legal, taxation, regulatory and accounting aspects of each type of transaction, enabling you to assess their value creation potential within your company.

Contents include:

• Optimising the capital structure
• Dealing with surplus capital
• The share buyback
• Capital repayments – the technical issues
• The demerger
• Other forms of capital reconstruction
• Joint ventures
• Other transactions
• Corporate acquisitions