Samer Khalil

Business & Public administration

Samer Khalil, PhD, CVA: Associate professor of Accountancy and Chairman of the Finance, Accounting, and Managerial Economics department at the He received his PhD from Concordia University, Montreal, in 2005. He taught one year at HEC, Montreal, before joining the American University of Beirut in September 2006 where he lectures on accounting and business valuation related issues at the under-graduate, graduate, and executive MBA level. Dr. Khalil also participated in various executive training in Lebanon and the Middle East. He has published various paper related to mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, in addition to auditing has Been published in reputable journals including Auditing, Accounting Horizons, and the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Before pursuing his academic career, Dr. Khalil worked as a chief accountant at Sogex SAL before Joining MIC Consultants. Dr. Khalil has been involved in various valuation engagements in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. He has also been involved in various corporate restructuring and turnaround engagement in the KSA.

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Termination Fees in Mergers and Acquisitions

Unknown less than 15 years ago, termination fees (otherwise called kill fees) are now a commonplace component of merger and takeover agreements. Such fees typically require target firms to pay a monetary consideration to bidders if a merger or takeover agreement is broken. However, institutional inv ..