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. Even if market concentration and technological disadvantages lead to a significant welfare reduction after merger, from …
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. Even if market concentration and technological disadvantages lead to a significant welfare reduction after merger, from …
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Takeover litigation continues to be a much discussed issue in Delaware and among the corporate bar. This report provides preliminary statistics for takeover litigation in 2013. Based on preliminary statistics, takeover litigation continued to be brought at an extraordinarily high rate in 2013....
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This paper considers whether the concern that implementation of Directive 2004/25 (Takeover Directive) by the Companies Act 2006 will lead to a culture of litigation that would be detrimental to takeovers is justified, with reference to: (1) the common law approach restricting tactical...
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Efficiency defence and merger remedies are key components in most merger control regimes. Although in many … firms face in merger litigation where they are allowed to choose what combination of efficiency claims and settlement offers … to make. The main novelty of this work is the use of data from company reports on the merger-generated synergy …
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This report provides preliminary statistics for takeover litigation in 2014. Takeover litigation continued at a "steady state" and at an extremely high rate. Lawsuits were brought in 94.9% of takeovers in 2014 versus 39% in 2005. This is the fourth year in a row that the rate of litigation was...
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postmerger operating performance after the UD laws. Further analysis suggests that acquirers make suboptimal merger decisions to … avoid litigation. Taken together, we show that litigation risk can distort managers' incentives and destroy value ex ante …
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