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Alleviating managerial dilemmas in human-capital-intensive firms through incentives : evidence from M&A legal advisors
Chatain, Olivier; Meyer-Doyle, Philipp - 2015
Research summaryWe examine how human-capital-intensive firms deploy their human assets and how firm-specific human capital interacts with incentives to influence this deployment. Our empirical context is the UK M&A legal market, where micro-data enable us to observe the allocation of lawyers to...
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The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Executive Pay in the United Kingdom
Guest, Paul M. - 2012
We examine the impact of acquisitions by UK acquirers on executive pay. The overall sample shows a significant transitory pay increase. Pay changes are not affected by target nationality or organizational form, although initial cross-border acquisitions result in higher pay. Pay increases are...
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Adopted EU Directive on Takeover Bids – The Target Company Management’s Position, Defensive Measures and Insider Dealing
Maurović, Ljiljana - 2013
The defense industry is unlike other industries due to the nature of its products and given the significance of the defense industry for national security. Since the end of the Cold War, the European defense industry has undergone a huge transformation. Decline in demand for military equipment...
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Female Directors and UK Company Acquisitiveness
Dowling, Michael M. - 2013
The presence, and proportion, of female directors is found to strongly influence the level of acquisitiveness of a company. This finding is made through a novel dataset covering significant size acquisitions made by FTSE 100 constituents between 2000 and 2011 and includes multiple controls for...
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Director Networks and Takeovers
Renneboog, Luc - 2013
We study the impact of corporate networks on the takeover process. We find that better connected companies are more … active bidders. When a bidder and a target have one or more directors in common, the probability that the takeover … invited to the board of the combined firm in connected M&As. While connections have a clear impact on the takeover strategy …
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Director Networks and Takeovers
Renneboog, Luc - 2013
We study the impact of corporate networks on the takeover process. We find that better connected companies are more … active bidders. When a bidder and a target have one or more directors in common, the probability that the takeover … invited to the board of the combined firm in connected M&As. While connections have a clear impact on the takeover strategy …
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Paper 3A of 4 : What Is Right Governance Practice over M&a Transactions as Overseen by Directors of the Acquiring Company?
Blomson, Dean M. - 2017
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Ownership Structure, Managerial Turnover and Takeovers : Further U.K. Evidence on the Market for Corporate Control
Dahya, Jay - 2016
executive and top team forced departure rates compared to that of friendly takeovers. Furthermore, prior to takeover, hostile … the hostile takeover …
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Going Private Transactions and Firm Innovation : Evidence from Japanese Management Buy-outs
Kawanishi, Takuya - 2021
This paper empirically examines the impact of exiting the stock market on corporate innovation activities using Japanese going private type MBO data. Difference-in-differences analysis in regression framework is implemented on panel data consisting of firms that conducted public-to-private MBO...
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