Meredith M. Brown – författare

The Lords Prayer the prayer Jesus taught to his disciples is so familiar that we say it by rote but its few verses sum up everything Jesus taught, and for which he lived and died.

Brown reviews each verse, in the context of the Gospels, so the reader can learn what Jesus prayer tells us about:

-- our relation to God

-- praying and what to pray for

-- the coming of the kingdom

-- our daily bread our physical and spiritual sustenance

-- forgiveness

-- temptation

--deliverance from evil

Meredith Brown applies his scholars mind and his faithful heart to this very useful appreciation of the central prayer of the Christian life.Whether read in solitary or in a study group, this is a book to deepen and enliven faith.

Hays Rockwell, ninth bishop of the Episcopal Church inMissouri(retired)

With the recent boom in merger and acquisition activity and the increasing globalization of business, more and more M&A transactions are taking place across borders. According to Securities Data Company, in 1998 more than $672 billion in cross-border deals were announced - one in every four dollars of worldwide M&A, up dramatically from $393 billion in 1997 and $274 billion in 1996.

This book aims to highlight the ways in which international mergers and acquisitions are very different from their domestic equivalent, to identify the common pitfalls, and to provide a practical guide to negotiating successful international M&A. The key issues addressed include reconciling the tax and accounting systems and divergent merger legislation of different jurisdictions, resolving differences in corporate culture and governance, dealing with cross-border communications issues, and confronting some of the basic logistical difficulties of an international transaction.

In bringing together the contributions of expert investment bankers, corporate executives, lawyers, consultants, accountants and regulators with extensive experience in international M&A, the book provides a valuable introduction to the challenges of cross-border deals.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors; Foreword; 1. The Investment Bankers'' Overview of Recent and Future Developments in International Mergers and Acquisitions, Kenneth H.M. Leet, Gary W. Parr and Jonathan K. Rouner; 2. Regulation of Cross-Border Investments, John B. Reynolds, III; 3. Regulation of the Cross-Border Acquisition Process Itself, Meredith M. Brown, Adrian Clark, Laurie L. Green and Harald Voss; 4. Tax Issues in Structuring a Cross-Border Acquisition, Peter C. Canellos, Paul W. Oosterhuis and Burt Rosen; 5. Accounting Issues in International Mergers and Acquisitions, Jeffrey N. Jones and Michael J. Morrissey; 6. Communications Issues, Joele Frank and Paul Verbinnen; 7. Cultural and Social Issues Before the Closing, Walter Shill and Richard D. Houtman; 8. Getting It to Work: Post-Closing Integration Issues, Walter Shill and Richard D. Houtman; 9. Coda: What to Do, and What Not to Do, in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions, Walter Shill and Richard D. Houtman; Index.

This is a clear, accessible "how to" approach to the key issues in a global equity offering: which capital markets to tap, and how (public offering vs. private placement); which stock exchange(s) to list on; structuring the underwriting syndicates; due diligence questions; road shows and marketing activities; whether to disclose forecasts; which lawyers should give "negative assurance" as to disclosures in the prospectus; and how to negotiate representations, "outs", indemnification and other terms of the underwriting agreements. A group of leading securities practitioners from different capital markets - Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK and the USA - take you through each stage, using a case study of a global IPO of an emerging markets issuer to illustrate the process. A road map for securities lawyers, investment bankers, and senior finance officers of companies contemplating a global equity capital-raising.

This is a practical handbook of key issues relating to investing in derivatives, both from the point of view of customers who purchase and use derivative products, and from the point of view of banks and other dealers. Among the topics discussed by leading regulators and practitioners in major markets - the United States, the United Kingdom and France - are risks from using and not using derivatives, the disclosures that dealers should make to customers, whether derivatives are securities, what disclosures should be made by users to their shareholders, suits by users against dealers, and what directors of users should know about derivatives. This handbook provides an excellent practical introduction to derivatives for company and securities lawyers, bankers and bank lawyers and corporate finance officers.

This book sets out to demystify the privatisation process -- currently transforming the economies of the world -- by reviewing both the business organization and capital raising aspects of the process as experienced in France, Italy, UK, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, particularly in the light of the latest important developments in those countries. This work does not claim to be exhaustive. It offers a focus on the status reached on the edge of 1994 as understood by those heavily engaged in the process, with a grasp of the large canvas of considerations and objectives that play upon such transactions. This handbook emerges from the distilled expertise of two committees of the IBA''s Section on Business Law, who met and discussed the matter in October 1993, New Orleans. The sure prediction made is that privatisations will continue to constitute a major form of business transaction and to involve a significant percentage of the world''s capital raising requirements. This handbook informs all those who need to know where we are, and where things are going.