v.1 Advance planning -- Ressponding to an interested bidder -- Target management obligations -- Responding to a tender offer -- Antitrust considerations -- Defensive tactics -- Tender offers: techniques for offense and defense -- Joint tender offers: acquire and divide -- Tender offers: acquisitions in a regulated industry -- Alternatives to a tender offer -- Other acquisition techniques -- Selected acquisition case studies -- v.2,3 Exhibits

1. Tender offerss (Securities) -- Law and legislation -- United States