Restructuring for Growth is the first book to take a detailed look at subsidiary equity redeployments (SERs), which have proven remarkably successful at creating new value for both parent companies and their share holders. This resource offers practical advice on creating value in today's turbulent private and public stock and merger markets. It details the goals, objectives, advantages, and challenges and lays out critical tax, legal, and accounting considerations of today's most widely-used and effective subsidiary equity redeployment (SER) strategies.This work contains numerous examples and cases for each strategy. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the strategies were structured and deployed, and access to the SER successes and failures of leading companies ranging from General Motors to Palm. Many of these cases are available from no other resource, and feature commentary from company executives on the firing line about the strategies they selected.In Restructuring for Growth John Michaelson provides unique insights into the inner workings of corporate finance and details the challenges of working with Wall Street. He gives you the information and confidence to select, deploy, and manage smart SER strategies - to meet the value creation demands of impatient investors, corporate management, and boards of directors.