Mergers, acquisitions and other strategic transactions are no longer exclusively practiced by a small number of huge corporations. Today these deals are standard business activities, engaged in by companies of all types and sizes. As one of the first books broadly written for any business professional engaged in a strategic transaction, Deal Teams [ital] outlines the basics and details the intricacies of how a deal works and who the players are. With hundreds of deals under his belt, author Michael Frankel is a seasoned authority who offers the reader a clear and candid explanation of the roles, motives and objectives of the key players in a deal. As he characterizes the entire deal team - from executive management and the corporate development team, shareholders and other internal players, to external advisors including public relations and human resources executives, as well as investment bankers and outside counsel - Frankel profiles everyone involved in a strategic transaction. The deal-rich environment of the corporate world in which we live today demands that business professionals understand the landscape of the deal table as well as the roles, biases and incentives of those seated around it. Deal Teams is a critical read for that rapidly-widening pool of anyone involved in, contemplating or affected by a business deal.