Close To Divest
- Topics:
- Deal Structure,
- Investment Strategy
- Tags:
- Business Operations,
- CFO Publishing Corp.,
- Corporate Law,
- Divestiture,
- Finance,
- Financial Accounting,
- Investment,
- M&A,
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Source:
- CFO Publishing
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Overview: 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 of mergers and acquisitions — are holding up well even in the current M&A lull and giant examples like AT&T's 2002 sale of its cable-TV business, or this year's proposal by Vivendi Universal to shed U.S. operations, may end up being forerunners. Problems with divestitures run far deeper than embarrassment over the concept.
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Format: HTML | Date: Mar 2003 | Pages: 3
