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Wikipedia provides an excellent portal to a large number of papers and information on real options. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_option

There is a huge number of websites devoted to mergers and acquisitions.
A useful portal to some good articles on M&As (though beware, not all are in English) is to be found at: http://www.themanager.org/Knowledgebase/Strategy/MandA.htm

A concise summary of M&A facts can be found at: http://www.reference.com/search?q=merger

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) undertakes research on cross border acquisitions. Their website is: http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Search.asp?intItemID=2068&lang=1&frmSearchStr=merger&frmCategory=all&section=whole

CNN.com also provides statistics on international M&A activity:
http://money.cnn.com/news/deals/mergers/dealchart.html

The UK's mergers and acquisitions regulator is the Competition Commission. Its website is: http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/rep_pub/index.htm

The US equivalent is the Federal Trade Commission: http://www.ftc.gov/bc/mergers.shtm

A nice article written by Steve Case, who was CEO of AOL at the time of its merger with Time Warner, can be found at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/10/AR2005121000099.html

An evaluation of the Abbey / Grupo Santander merger can be found at: http://www.rinconcastellano.com/economia/santander_abbey/2c_uncertainties.html

A concise summary of MBOs and MBIs can be found at:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/help-and-advice/advice-banks/article.html?in_advicepage_id=129&in_article_id=394273&in_page_id=90

More information on the financing of deals such as MBOs or M&As can be found on the websites associated with good corporate finance textbooks. The website to accompany Brealey and Myers’ Principles of Corporate Finance can be found at:
http://www.mhhe.com/business/finance/bm/student/olc/

For a review of management buy-outs between 1986 and 2006 go to: www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/cmbor/cmbor20.pdf


For more information on the companies discussed in the chapter see:

- Burger King – the Wikipedia site is as good as any:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King

- Honda's move into aircraft manufacturing can be found at: https://hondajet.honda.com/default.aspx?bhcp=1

- Cobra Beer's website can be found at: http://www.cobrabeer.com/press/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=3

- For a summary of Banco Santander's history see: http://www.santander.com/csgs/Satellite?accesibilidad=3&canal=CAccionistas&cid=1146205899430&empr=SANCorporativo&leng=en_GB&pagename=SANCorporativo/Page/SC_ContenedorGeneral.