The Investment Banking Handbook [Hardcover]

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

Global Market Integration (F. Fisher).

Bank ``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 Seculã: