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How M&A Can Lead to Better Management

By John (Jianqiu) Bai, Wang Jin and Matthew Serfling July 17, 2018 by renholding

A fundamental question in corporate finance is how mergers and acquisitions create value. Possibilities include generating economies of scale or scope, increasing managerial efficiency, improving production techniques, or strengthening market power. Synergies are a leading motive for doing mergers, but …

How M&A Laws Affect the Risk of Stock Price Crashes

By Balasingham Balachandran, Huu Nhan Duong, Hoang Luong and Lily Nguyen July 5, 2018 by renholding

In a new cross-nation study, we discuss our findings on how the takeover market affects stock-price crash risk, defined as the likelihood of a sudden, drastic decline in the stock price of a firm. An important consideration for risk management …

Fried Frank Discusses the Obligations of LLC Directors and Managers

By Gail Weinstein, Steven J. Steinman, Brian T. Mangino, Randi Lally and Maxwell Yim June 20, 2018 by renholding

There are now more than twice as many entities formed in Delaware as LLCs and other alternative entities as are formed as corporations. Private equity funds and hedge funds often are formed as LLCs or limited partnerships to take advantage …

Paul Weiss Offers M&A at a Glance for May 2018

By Matthew W. Abbott, Scott A. Barshay, Angelo Bonvino, Ariel J. Deckelbaum, Jeffrey D. Marell and Taurie M. Zeitzer June 18, 2018 by renholding

M&A activity in May 2018 generally weakened from the prior month. The total number of deals decreased in the U.S. by 1.2% to 667 (the second-lowest level in the last 12-month period) and globally by 4.8% to 2,759 (the lowest …

Does Firing a CEO Pay Off?

By George Alexandridis, John A. Doukas and Christos Mavis June 14, 2018 by renholding

The chief executive officer (CEO) and the top management team are typically viewed as critical to the success or failure of companies. As it is not uncommon for top executives to make value-destroying decisions, the role of internal control mechanisms, …

Davis Polk Discusses Largest U.S. Antitrust Divestiture in Bayer-Monsanto Deal

By Arthur J. Burke, Ronan P. Harty, Jon Leibowitz, Howard Shelanski and Jesse Solomon June 13, 2018 by renholding

On May 29, 2018, the Department of Justice announced the largest-ever antitrust divestiture in the U.S. in connection with Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto.  In addition to being newsworthy in light of its sheer size (at approximately $9 billion), the remedy …

Mergers and the Market for Busy Directors: A Global Analysis

By Stephen Ferris, Narayanan Jayaraman and Min-Yu (Stella) Liao June 12, 2018 by renholding

The issue of directors serving on multiple corporate boards has come under increasing scrutiny from both academicians and practitioners. There are two types of arguments associated with the conflicting evidence of how multiple directorships affect firm value and performance. The …

Paul Weiss Offers M&A at a Glance for April 2018

By Matthew W. Abbott, Scott A. Barshay, Angelo Bonvino, Ariel J. Deckelbaum, Jeffrey D. Marell and Taurie M. Zeitzer May 31, 2018 by renholding

M&A activity in April 2018, as measured by number of deals, dipped from March 2018 levels in the U.S. and globally across every metric.  The total number of deals decreased by 15.2% to 669 in the U.S. and 9.7% to …

Are Directors Holding Multiple Board Seats Too Busy or Well-Connected?

By Anna Bergman Brown, Jing Dai and Emanuel Zur May 24, 2018 by renholding

Directors frequently hold multiple board seats, simultaneously lending their expertise to the boards of multiple firms. Director “busyness” is often thought to be detrimental to firm performance, as it leaves directors with insufficient time to devote to their duties at …

Feedback Effect of Disclosure Spillovers

By Jinhwan Kim, Rodrigo S. Verdi and Benjamin Yost May 18, 2018 by renholding

Prior research has documented the existence of disclosure externalities, or information spillovers, between firms in a number of different settings. The idea is that when two firms are economically related, public disclosures by one firm can affect the stock price …

How Enforcement Quality Affects the Use of M&A Earnouts

By Luca Viarengo, Stefano Gatti and Annalisa Prencipe May 2, 2018 by renholding

In mergers and acquisitions (M&A), one of the trickiest tasks is assessing the value of the company to be purchased or sold. While in some cases buyers and sellers come easily to an agreement, in others the information asymmetry between …

Hedge Funds’ Short-Term Thinking: Does It Matter for Merger Payments?

By Ning Gao, Olga Kolokolova and Achim Mattes April 24, 2018 by renholding

In 2010, Roger Carr, then-chairman of British confectionery Cadbury, waged a grueling five-month battle before losing control of the company to Kraft Foods.  “At the end of the day,” he said, “there were simply not enough shareholders prepared to take …

Paul Weiss Offers M&A at a Glance for March 2018

By Matthew W. Abbott, Scott A. Barshay, Angelo Bonvino, Ariel J. Deckelbaum, Jeffrey D. Marell and Taurie M. Zeitzer April 20, 2018 by renholding

M&A activity gained momentum in March 2018, capping the strongest opening quarter in the history of this publication. In the U.S., deal volume returned to January levels, increasing by 109.6% to $174.10 billion, and the number of deals increased by …

How the Delaware Supreme Court May Help Michael Dell in his VMware Raid

By Matthew Schoenfeld April 10, 2018 by renholding

VMware’s shareholders enjoyed gains of nearly 60 percent in 2017 as the company positioned itself as an appealing play on cloud computing with substantial growth potential and partnerships with industry leaders like Amazon Web Services. Indeed, in its most recent …

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Columbia Law School to Hold 2018 M&A and Corporate Governance Conference in New York City

By Reynolds Holding April 9, 2018 by renholding

On April 20, 2018, Columbia Law School will hold its 2018 Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Governance Conference at Convene in midtown Manhattan. The event is co-sponsored by the law firms Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & …

Davis Polk Discusses the Impact of European Data Protection Regulation on U.S. M&A

By Frank Azzopardi, Leo Borchardt, Avi Gesser, Pritesh Shah, Michelle Ontiveros Gross and Daniel F. Forester April 5, 2018 by renholding

The winds of change will shortly sweep across the data privacy landscape in the European Union (“E.U.”) and the gale will be felt worldwide.  The European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) will come into force on …

Davis Polk Discusses Greater Risk of Scrutiny for More UK Deals

By Nicholas Spearing, Devin Anderson and Matthew Yeowart March 27, 2018 by Carly Goeman

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced proposals to tighten its jurisdiction over mergers in the military, quantum technology and computing hardware industries. The changes, which are subject to a consultation period through April 12, 2018, would lower …

Paul Weiss Offers M&A at a Glance for February 2018

By Matthew W. Abbott, Scott A. Barshay, Angelo Bonvino, Ariel J. Deckelbaum, Jeffrey D. Marell and Taurie M. Zeitzer March 20, 2018 by renholding

Despite an increase in M&A activity over the past three months, deal trends in February 2018 retreated towards their 12-month averages, following banner months in November and December, both of which featured some of the largest deals we have seen …

How Property Rights Contributed to the Evolution of Takeover Auctions

By Tingting Liu, J. Harold Mulherin and William O. Brown March 7, 2018 by renholding

Ronald Coase (1959, 1960)[1] [2] insightfully noted that with well-defined property rights, resources flow to their highest-valued use. In a recent paper, we apply this view of property rights to the corporate takeover market in the United States. Observers …

Skadden Discusses Novel Theories Emerging in Merger Enforcement

By Maria Raptis, Ingrid Vandenborre, Thorsten C. Goetz and Justine M. Haimi March 6, 2018 by renholding

Antitrust merger enforcement historically has focused on horizontal mergers — consolidation of two firms that compete directly in the same space. This is especially true in the U.S., where antitrust authorities have challenged few vertical mergers — those of a …

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