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Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is generous to King shareholders, but the merger does not look li... More

Case - British Land's shares traded below NAV. Laxey investments tried to force British Land into share buybacks and criticized its corporate governance. Laxey voted borrowed shares at the AGM.... More

This case introduces decision analysis. Using a simple example, it illustrates the use of probability trees and decision trees as tools for solving business problems.... More

Outlines the definition and applicability of financial multiples and their relationship to discounted cash flow analysis.... More

In 2012, regulatory changes following the financial crisis mean that Barclays Bank is faced with the need to raise large amounts of capital in order to comply with increased capital requirements, tightening rules as to the "quality of capital," and increased risk weights for its capital markets asse... More

Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is generous to King shareholders, but the merger does not look li... More

Many human rights advocates agree that conventional advocacy tools-- reporting abuses to international tribunals or shaming the perpetrators of human rights violations-- have proven ineffective. Increasingly, social justice advocates are looking to social and economic rights strategies as promising ... More

Many human rights advocates agree that conventional advocacy tools-- reporting abuses to international tribunals or shaming the perpetrators of human rights violations--have proven ineffective. Increasingly, social justice advocates are looking to social and economic rights strategies as promising a... More

AXA's friendly bid for MONY is contested by activist hedge funds suspicious of management's generous change in control contracts. Votes trade after the record date. AXA financed the bid using an unusual conditionally convertible bond which may have affected incentives to trade and vote MONY shares.... More

On February 21, 2013, TELUS announced a proposal to convert the firm's non-voting shares into voting shares on a one-to-one basis, thereby eliminating the firm's dual class structure. Shareholders were scheduled to vote on the proposal at the firm's annual general meeting (AGM) on May 9, 2013. Despi... More

Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buy-out; and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here, the context is a "going private" transaction in Europe, where the financing plan called for the addition to the company's balance sheet of a significa... More

In the midst of the financial crisis, Barclays (the world's 4th largest bank by assets) is forced by UK regulators to raise more capital. Should it take up the UK government's offer to invest, or take funding from investors from the Middle East? Students may price the two deals to determine which is... More

"Most investment projects are valued by first computing the free cash flows generated in each period, then discounting these cash flows back to the present, and finally summing these to give the net present value of the project. Typically, the cash flows used in the valuation come from forecasts of ... More

In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to the policies and practices of the end of empire.... More

Luise White presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumor as historical sources in their own right, she assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction.... More

The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo, Luise White does not set out to resolve questions about who was accountable for this horrible murder. Instead, in a style that is as much murder mystery as it is history writing, she uncovers what is at stake in the various confessions and why Chitepo's assassin... More

In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia during the 1964–1979 Zimbabwean liberation struggle. In the memoirs of white soldiers fighting to defend white minority rule in Africa lo... More

He'll slice your flesh. Your bones he'll keep. The Bone Keeper's coming. And he'll make you weep.What if the figure that haunted your nightmares as a child was real?Twenty years ago, four teenagers went exploring in the local woods, trying to find the supposed home of the Bone Keeper. Only three ret... More

In a terrifying trip into the darkest corners of psychology, Detectives Murphy and Rossi rush to catch a serial killer who is stalking a university in Liverpool, ingeniously murdering his victims in a series of deadly experiments. Detectives David Murphy and Laura Rossi are charged with the investig... More

From the author of The Bone Keeper comes another sinister tale of secrets, revenge, and a killer lurking nearIt was supposed to be our last weekend away as friends, before marriage and respectability beckoned. But what happened that Saturday changed everything.We killed a stranger and covered it up.... More

'Explosive ... this is an electrifying-edge-of-the-seat thriller, a must-read for fans of Harlan Coben' CANDIS MAGAZINE 'Grips from the first page to the last. A UK thriller writer that gives giants like Linwood Barclay and Harlan Coben a run for their money' MARK BILLINGHAM'Local Woman Missing meet... More

'Grips from the first page to the last. A UK thriller writer that gives giants like Linwood Barclay and Harlan Coben a run for their money' MARK BILLINGHAMThe day she died was only the beginning . . .A DEVOTED MOTHERSam Cooper has a happy life: a good job, a blossoming relationship. Yet, there's som... More

Description du livre : Whitney Anderson, une élève de cinquième année, est présidente d’une société secrète qui résout les mystères. Elle et ses amis aident à retrouver un garçon disparu. Mais bientôt Whitney déménage vers un pays étrange, Monaco où de nombreuses aventures l’attendent. Un homm... More

Whitney Anderson è una bambina che frequenta la quinta elementare, ed è la presidentessa di un circolo del mistero. Lei ed i suoi amici aiutano a ritrovare un bambino scomparso, ma Whitney deve presto trasferirsi a Monaco, uno strano paese in cui vivrà molte avventure ed un uomo la seguirà ovunque, ... More

A obra "Tudo o que você sempre quis saber sobre saúde mental" traz mais de 70 respostas a perguntas que você sempre quis fazer. A famosa escritora médica J. Lucy Boyd entrevistou 20 psiquiatras e psicólogos de primeira linha, fazendo a cada um deles uma ou duas perguntas sobre a especialidade de cad... More