This study investigates the transition from being a listed company with a dispersed ownership structure to being a … privately held company with a concentrated ownership structure. We consider a sample of private equity backed portfolio … comparable public companies. These performance differences come from the increase in ownership concentration after the leveraged …

This study examines changes in block ownership for a large sample of listed and non-listed German firms. The frequency … ownership (control transfers). Such changes are more likely for firms with high leverage, while they are less likely for larger … firms and firms with high ownership concentration. Only for listed firms poor performance is related to more frequent …

This study investigates the determinants of changes in corporate ownership and firm failure, taking into account … likely to fail or to be sold when performance is poor, financial pressure is high, and firm size is small. Cross ownership … deters control changes, and ownership concentration has a non-linear impact on the likelihood of control transfer. In …

more passive shareholders (lower ownership per non-institutional shareholder) are less likely to be takeover targets, less … likely to be acquired and command higher premiums. Using the adoption of anti-takeover law in Delaware as an exogenous shock … to anti-takeover protection, we show that the passiveness of shareholder base decreases as the takeover threat subsides …

control. In the optimal ownership structure, the more efficient blockholder will hold just enough shares to gain control, but …

-border bidders. The findings also support the idea that the post-takeover integration process in cross-border takeovers is likely to … with a takeover wave following the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, it is found that good corporate governance of a target …