Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs (3rd Edition)
by Joshua Rosenbaum, Joshua Pearl · Wiley Finance
The standard practitioner text on banker valuation work: comparable companies, precedent transactions, DCF, LBO, merger and IPO analysis, worked step by step. The third edition ships with six downloadable Excel model templates matching the chapters.
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