The decision of whether a company should be publicly listed or not is one of the central issues in corporate finance. While going public has been thoroughly examined in all relevant aspects, there are significant gaps in knowledge regarding going private, the withdrawal from the stock market. Florian Eisele provides a well-founded and methodologically diverse analysis of the largely unexplored German going private market and offers detailed insights into the structuring of going private transactions. Furthermore, he specifically investigates the motives for withdrawing from the stock market, the financial characteristics of the delisted companies, and - based on an event study - the stock price reactions to going private announcements. This broad empirical analysis is accompanied by a theoretical-conceptual discussion of the relationship between the two.