The Art of Bank M&A: Buying, Selling, Merging, and Investing in Regulated Depository Institutions in the New Environment

SECTION 4

SPECIAL SITUATIONS

Up to now this book has covered material useful for most banks or bank holding companies engaged in merger transactions. This section, by contrast, focuses on special situations. Chapter 10, Cross-Border M&A, presents trends and issues in transactions that involve banks from two or more countries. Chapter 11, Distressed and Failed Banks, takes the reader through the difficult journey of bank insolvency. Chapter 12, Investing in Bank Stocks, ends on a more positive note by broadening the horizons of this book. This final chapter offers guidance for all investors, both institutional and individual, interested in aligning a part of their investment portfolios—and thus an important aspect of their own economic future—with ...