We examine the announcement and post-acquisition share returns of UK acquirers in over 4,000 acquisitions of domestic, cross-border, public and private targets. Domestic public acquisitions result in negative announcement and post-acquisition returns, whilst cross-border public acquisitions...

We investigate the relation between takeover performance and board share ownership in the acquiring company for a sample of 363 UK takeovers completed in the period 1985-96. In investigating this relationship we pay particular attention to the composition of board shareholdings as well as their...

We examine empirically the relative performance effects of single and multiple acquirers. We find little difference between them. However, we do find that for multiple acquirers short and long run performance declines significantly with each subsequent acquisition. We find that this pattern is...

We examine the announcement and post-acquisition share returns of 4,000 acquisitions by UK public firms during 1984-1998. We include acquisitions of domestic and cross-border targets, and of both publicly quoted and privately held targets. In acquisitions of domestic public targets, abnormal...