Tombstones
A Lawyer's Tales from the Takeover Decades
By Lawrence Lederman
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Hardcover, 9780374278458, 342pp.)
Publication Date: March 1992
Categories: Legal Profession
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Description
In Wall Street lingo, tombstones are the black-bordered newspaper notices of corporate mergers. Lederman, who created the recapitalization technique while a partner at Wachtell Lipton, presents richly detailed stories from the takeover wars of the 1980's, informed by his intimate knowledge of the strategies and personalities involved.












