This highly readable book from Lou Richard, a 50 year veteran of International Corporate business and founder of Newport Capital, provides a practical explanation of key technical and tactical aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and also provides insightful real-life descriptions - "digressions" - of transactions as they happened, proving that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

About the Author

Louis (Lou) Richard entered the ICT industry in the 1960s when he left school teaching to join IBM Australia. Lou's career has included roles as chief executive of Computer Resources Group (Australia's largest indigenous ICT company in the 1970s and 1980s), founder and managing director of the highly successful ATAC Group, executive chairman of FEE Group (UK), general manager business development at ASX listed Computer Power Group and director of marketing for ICL Asia Pacific. Inspired by Broadview Associates, a leading US ICT mergers and acquisitions shop in the 1980s, Lou established Newport Capital in 1989. Newport Capital is Australia's stand out technology oriented mergers and acquisitions and advisory shop. Lou's work at Newport Capital has seen him lead road shows to the US, raise capital in Thailand, pitch to the European and Taiwanese investors for Newport's funds management operations, and buy a Finnish company for an Australian client.