Legal Aspects of Corporate Acquisitions The aim of the diploma thesis is to provide an analysis of significant economic and legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions in the Czech Republic, as well as to point out some specifics of the Czech market and describe loan acquisition financing in terms of financial law. The theoretical findings are then applied to a specific acquisition, which is still ongoing in 2020. The theoretical part of the thesis is divided into two sections. In the first, the thesis focuses on the analysis of growth strategies of companies that can be implemented in the current conditions of the market economy. Strategies are described here and then compared with one another. This part of the thesis also contains a comparison of the concepts of mergers and acquisitions, as they are often confused in practice. Here, the thesis also lists the typologies of both mergers and acquisitions that are commonly used. The second section of the theoretical part of the thesis provides an introduction to loan acquisition financing and the so-called leveraged buyout. The thesis outlines the method of loan acquisition financing together with some findings of financial theory regarding loan as such and loan law. On the contrary, the practical part of the thesis is conceived somewhat differently,...

This study provides information about convertible preferreds generally and, in particular, those used in financing mergers during the period 1968-1984. Specifically, the following topics are examined: (1) traditional corporate motives for the use of convertible preferreds as a financing means in mergers and acquisitions, (2) annual data about convertible preferreds' issuance by volume and purpose for the period 1968-1984, (3) average annual returns of merger-related convertible preferreds and average annual returns of common stock of the same companies for the period 1968-1980, (4) performance of convertible preferreds in relation to the market in general, and (5) the future of convertible preferreds as a financing instrument in merger activity.