Risk Arbitrage

Index

Accounting

pooling of interests

purchase accounting

Active arbitrage

Amax Incorporated

American Bankers Insurance

American Maize Corporation

AMP, Inc.

background

Conrail

Echlin Manufacturing

ERC Corporation

in Europe. See Europe, active arbitrage in

Gerber Products Company

GM Hughes Electronics (DIRECTV Group, Inc.)

GRC International

Great Western United Corporation

Hillhaven Corporation

Houston Natural Gas

ITT Corporation

LAC Minerals Ltd.

Mannesmann AG

McGraw-Hill Corporation

Medical Care America

Northern Electric

Pennzoil Corporation

and poison pill defenses

Prosodie S.A.

Rexene Corporation

Sears Roebuck & Co./Allstate

Active arbitrage (Continued)

Teledyne, Inc.

Telxon Corporation

Union Carbide

U.S. Shoe Corporation

Van Dorn Corporation

Wallace Computer Services Corporation

Willamette Industries, Inc.

Wyser-Pratte and Company initiatives. See Wyser-Pratte and Company

Activist funds. See also Shareholder activism

Alloys Unlimited/Plessey, Ltd. merger

Amax vs. Standard Oil of California and active arbitrage corporate freeze-in example

American Bankers Insurance, active arbitrage example

American Maize Corporation, active arbitrage example

AMP, Inc., active arbitrage example

Anderson Clayton/Gerber Baby Foods

Annual reports, use of in financial analysis of proposed merger

Antitrust issues

Clayton Act

and corporate freeze-in tactics

discount for risk

and financial analysis of proposed merger

Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act

Approvals

Arbitrage

defined

historical ...