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| Preface | |
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| Prologue | |
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| The Modern Deal | |
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| The Import of Personality | |
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| The Evolution of the Takeover | |
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| The Takeover Revolution | |
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| KKR, SunGard, and the Private Equity Phenomenon | |
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| KKR and the Origins of Private Equity | |
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| SunGard and the Transformation of Private Equity | |
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| Private Equity in the Sixth Wave | |
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| Accredited Home Lenders and the Attack of the MAC | |
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| The Fall of Accredited Home Lenders | |
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| Material Adverse Change Clauses | |
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| The MAC Wars of Fall 2007 | |
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| The MAC Clause in Flux | |
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| The Future of the MAC | |
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| United Rentals, Cerberus, and the Private Equity Implosion | |
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| The Cerberus-United Rentals Dispute | |
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| The Implosion of Private Equity | |
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| Fault and the Failure of Private Equity | |
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| The Future of Private Equity | |
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| Dubai Ports, Merrill Lynch, and the Sovereign Wealth Fund Problem | |
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| The Financial Wave of Sovereign Fund Investment | |
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| The Sovereign Wealth Fund Problem | |
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| CFIUS and Foreign Investment | |
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| Bear Stearns and the Moral Hazard Principle | |
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| Saving Bear Stearns | |
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| JPMorgan's Dilemma | |
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| The Fight for Bear Stearns | |
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| Lessons from Bear's Fall | |
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| Jana Partners, Children's Investment Fund, and Hedge Fund Activist Investing | |
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| A Brief Overview of the "Agency Problem" | |
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| The Rise of Hedge Fund Activism | |
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| The 2008 Proxy Season | |
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| The Future of Hedge Fund Activism | |
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| Microsoft, InBev, and the Return of the Hostile Takeover | |
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| Microsoft-Yahoo! | |
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| InBev-Anheuser-Busch | |
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| The Elements of a Successful Hostile Takeover | |
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| Delaware and Hostile Takeovers | |
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| The Future of Hostile Takeovers | |
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| Mars, Pfizer, and the Changing Face of Strategic Deals | |
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| The Changing Structure of Strategic Transactions | |
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| The Phenomenon of the Distressed Deal | |
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| Do Takeovers Pay? | |
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| Delaware Law and Strategic Transactions | |
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| The Future of Strategic Transactions | |
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| AIG, Citigroup, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman, and Government by Deal | |
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| The Nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac | |
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| The Week the Investment Bank Died | |
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| TARP, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Beyond? | |
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| Assessing Government by Deal | |
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| Restructuring Takeovers | |
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| Federal Takeover Law | |
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| Delaware Takeover Law | |
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| Deal-Making | |
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| Deal-Making Beyond a Crisis Age | |
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| Notes | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |