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This book addresses the salient question of how to make mergers and acquisitions work using a five-step approach. It explores insights gained from Prysmian's acquisitions and other prominent M&A deals, and compares them to existing best practices.
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Prior research has addressed the question of whether certain events cause a transfer of wealth between stockholders and bondholders but does not control for the events' impacts on firms' credit risk. This may explain why many studies fail to identify wealth transfers. By employing announcements...
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Wealth transfer effects between stockholders and bondholders on the announcement date of changes in a firm's credit rating have primarily been examined a) for one type of security; b) on US capital markets; and c) by applying standard event study methods. In contrast to these investigations, we...
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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs) have long been used as an important strategy for firms' international strategic expansion. Thus, CBMAs have become an increasingly important approach utilized by a large number of firms in multiple regions across the globe. It has gained in...
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We examine whether trust between the citizens in an acquirer’s country and those in a target’s country improves long-term synergistic gains in cross-border M&As. We find that acquirers’ announcement returns increase as trust increases. The result is robust to using a historical war as an...
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We study the impact of PE firm and buyout characteristics on default probability employing a Cox proportional hazards model to a global sample of 5,093 buyouts between 1997 and 2012. Our results indicate that investments of generalists have lower default probability than those of specialists....
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We show that it is a signal of deal quality in cross-border M&A if acquirers have private equity firms as owners (‘PE backing'). As such, announcements of cross-border M&A deals by PE-backed acquirers are associated with positive stock price reactions, but only if targets are in poor...
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Although post-merger integration (PMI) in management control systems (MCSs) is a key determinant of successful … the issues, solutions, and implementation of PMI tasks in MCSs at each phase of a cross-border merger from the perspective … installation of MCSs. Lastly, in order to minimize merger risks, a PMI-dedicated business division must be designated in the an …
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