Merger Masters presents revealing profiles of monumentally successful merger investors based on exclusive interviews with some of the greatest minds to practice the art of arbitrage. Michael Price, John Paulson, Paul Singer, and others offer practical perspectives on how their backgrounds in the risk-conscious world of merger arbitrage helped them make their biggest deals. They share their insights on the discipline that underlies their fortunes, whether they practice the “plain vanilla” strategy of announced deals, the aggressive strategy of activist investment, or any strategy in between on the risk spectrum.
Merger Masters delves into the human side of risk arbitrage, exploring how top practitioners deal with the behavioral aspects of generating consistent profits from risk arbitrage. The book also includes perspectives from the other side of the mergers and acquisitions divide in the form of interviews with a trio of iconic CEOs: Bill Stiritz, Peter McCausland, and Paul Montrone. All three took advantage of M&A opportunities to help build long-term returns but often found themselves at odds with the short-term focus of Wall Street and merger investors. Told in lively, accessible prose, with bonus facts and figures for transaction junkies, Merger Masters is an incomparable set of stories with plenty of unfiltered lessons from the best managers of our time.
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Wall Street Terms
- Introduction.
Why This Book? by Mario J. Gabelli
- Part I: The Arbs’ Perspectives
- 1. Guy Wyser-Pratte
- 2. Jeffrey Tarr
- 3. Martin Gruss
- 4. Paul Singer
- 5. Michael Price
- 6. Peter Schoenfeld
- 7. John Paulson
- 8. Paul Gould
- 9. George Kellner
- 10. Roy Behren and Michael Shannon
- 11. Karen Finerman
- 12. John Bader
- 13. Clint Carlson
- 14. James Dinan
- 15. Drew Figdor
- 16. Jamie Zimmerman
- 17. Keith Moore
- Part II: The View from the Other Side—The CEOs
- 18. William Stiritz
- 19. Paul Montrone
- 20. Peter McCausland
- Appendix I: Risk Arbitrage Decision Tree
- Appendix II: Deals
- Appendix III: A Note on Methods
- Index
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