Mergers and acquisitions : a cyclical and legal phenomenon / Claire A. Hill, Brian J.M. Quinn and Steven Davidoff Solomon -- M&A contracts : purposes, types, regulation and patterns of practice / John C. Coates IV -- The market for corporate control : survey of the empirical evidence, estimation...

This study evaluates the relation between hostile takeovers and 17 takeover laws from 1965 to 2014. Using a hand-collected dataset of largely exogenous legal changes we find that certain takeover laws, such as poison pill and business combination laws, have no discernible impact on hostile...

Defense litigation counsel are retained by target firm management to defend them in mergers and acquisition (M&A) litigation. We use hand collected data from a ten-year period (2003-2012) to examine whether the choice of defense litigation counsel affects the outcome of M&A litigation and...

When evaluating a merger or acquisition proposal, boards frequently seek fairness opinions from their financial advisors. This fairness opinion ratifies the consideration being paid or received as "fair from a financial point of view" to shareholders. This chapter (Chapter 26 in "The Art of...

We examine management buy-out (MBO) transactions announced from 2003-2009 in order to study the wealth effects of MBOs and the role of process. We find that there is “value” in corporate process. MBO offer premiums are positively associated with competitive contracts and the existence of...

We examine management buy-out ("MBO") transactions announced from 2003-2009 in order to study the wealth effects of MBOs and the role of process. We find that there is "value" in corporate process. MBO offer premiums are positively associated with competitive contracts and the existence of...