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Using a hand collected data set of 122 buy-outs, this paper presents the first analysis of the impact effects of public to private transactions in the UK during a period (1998-2004) in which PTPs have become a significant part of the market for corporate control. We find that performance...
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The paper investigates the factors that influence the decision to change the status of a publicly quoted company to that of a private company. We find that firms that go private are more likely to have higher CEO ownership and higher institutional ownership. In relation to their board...
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This paper investigates how far UK public to private transactions can be explained by financial distress costs or incentive realignment. We find that firms going private are more likely to be smaller, more diversified, younger and have lower Q ratios than firms remaining public. The results...
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