The Investment Banking Handbook / Edition 1

by J. Peter Williamson

Overview

This edited volume offers thorough coverage of the business of investment banking, including much inside information based on the extensive professional experience of the contributors. Comprising 32 chapters, covering every facet of investment banking, from its historical origins in the U.S. to the current high-dollar activity in mergers and acquisitions. Contributors are noted businessmen and academics from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan. Chapters fall into eight sections: investment banking today, raising capital, transactional activities, specialized financial instruments, tax-exempt financing, broker activities, commercial banks and investment banking, and investment banking outside the United States. Raising capital is traditionally what investment banking is all about, and the Handbook explains who does it and how it's done.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471815624
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/16/1991
Series:	Frontiers in Finance Series , #11
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.94(h) x 1.67(d)

About the Author

J. Peter Williamson is the author of The Investment Banking Handbook, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Investment Banking Competition: An Historical Sketch (S. Hayes,et al.).

Global Market Integration (F. Fisher).

Bank &‘grave;Uniqueness'' and the Securities Activities of CommercialBanks (A. Saunders).

Investment Banking: Commercial Banks' Inroads (S. Hayes).

Investment Banking at Bankers Trust Company (D. Dougherty).

Investment Banking at Chase Manhattan (H. Platzman).

Attracting Corporate Clients (C. Ellis).

Evaluating the Advice of Investment Bankers (J. Stern).

Private Placements (C. Wolf).

Initial Public Offerings (D. Logue).

Financing High Technology, Emerging Growth Companies (A. Towbin& J. Williamson).

Innovative Instruments and Transactions (T. Arnold).

Commercial Paper (S. Kirmse).

The Tax-Exempt Securities Market (R. Forbes).

Innovations in Tax-Exempt Finance (R. Forbes).

The Impact of Tax Reform on the Tax-Exempt Securities Market (R.Forbes).

Real Estate Finance (P. Kazilionis).

Investment Bankers in the Mortgage Markets (L. Goodman).

Leveraged Buyouts (W. Law).

Venture Capital Financing (C. Hazen).

Securities Markets and Investment Banking in Japan (T.Kamijo).

The Competitive Setting of Investment Banking in Canada (C.Potter).

Securities Firms in Canada (D. Shaw).

Securities Markets and Investment Banking in the U.K. (T.Rybezynski).

Sales and Trading (J. Freeman).

The Economics of Brokerage (P. Frank).

A New Product for the Brokerage Industry: Call It Anything butDiscount Brokerage (E. Johnson).

Perspectives on Clearing (V. Burger).

Investment Management in an Investment Banking Firm (J.Gustafson).

Mergers and Acquisitions (J. Williamson).

Editorial Reviews

Topics considered include: mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, venture capital, real estate, sales and trading, high yield debt, investment banking at commercial banks, public offerings vs. private placements, financing the growth of high-tech companies, world wide markets. Sections are self-contained. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews