This chapter, for the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance, provides a survey of law, economics, and finance scholarship at the intersection of corporate governance and financial distress. In financial distress, both inside and outside of bankruptcy court, formal and informal control rights...

This paper examines the effect of ownership structure of a controlling shareholder on the financial constraints of non-financial firms in 22 economies for the 1982-2009 period. We find that the overinvestment propensity of a controlling shareholder becomes less severe with an increase in...

Over the last decade, the availability of credit default swaps (CDS) has dramatically transformed the markets for credit insurance by providing participants efficient avenues through which to share credit risks. These risk-sharing benefits notwithstanding, the growth of credit default swaps...

Our objective in this paper is to provide a pedagogical discussion of the process by which creditors take control of distressed firms. Distress or vulture investing requires a high level of business acumen combined with deep knowledge of accounting, finance, and corporate and restructuring law....

This paper discusses acquisitions of distressed and bankrupt concerns. It starts with a description of the different types of targets (healthy, distressed, bankrupt) and provides insightful comparisons of deal and firm characteristics using the above classification, while recognizing the...

The practice of corporate restructuring in the UK has recently been transformed. The early twenty-first century has seen a tendency for corporate debt structures to be more fragmented, making informal renegotiation much more difficult to coordinate in times of financial distress. This has...

M&As should be defined to include joint ventures, alliances, and divestitures in addition to mergers and acquisitions. M&As represent a neoclassical theory of how firms seek to enhance their capabilities and resources (the good). Good M&As are positive net present value external investments....