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Takeover Litigation in 2011 2011年收购诉讼
Pub Date : 2012-02-02 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1998482
Matthew D. Cain, Steven Davidoff Solomon
Takeover Litigation continues to be a much discussed issue in Delaware and among the corporate bar. This report provides preliminary statistics for takeover litigation in 2011.
收购诉讼在特拉华州和公司律师中一直是一个备受讨论的问题。本报告提供了2011年并购诉讼的初步统计数据。
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引用次数: 5
Tacitcal Dilatory Practice in Litigation: Evidence from EC Merger Proceedings 诉讼中的战术拖延实践:来自欧共体合并诉讼的证据
Pub Date : 2011-08-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1975260
Peter L. Ormosi
The economic analysis of delay in legal procedures has received considerable attention in the past. Most of these works focus on the determinants of delay in litigation but very little analysis has been dedicated to examining tactical delay caused by the parties to the litigation. This paper offers an empirical example to fill some of this gap by analyzing strategic delay in pre-trial administrative litigation. The paper shows that in European merger litigation parties may decide to tactically challenge discovery attempts, which causes a delay that is strategically used to gain more time to settle the case and to avoid a lengthy in-depth investigation, similar to the prediction of Miceli’s (1999) theoretical model. This type of delay can be beneficial to merging parties and to society as well.
对法律程序延误的经济分析在过去受到了相当大的关注。这些工作大多集中在诉讼延迟的决定因素上,但很少有分析专门用于审查诉讼各方造成的战术延迟。本文通过分析审前行政诉讼中的战略延迟,提供了一个实证案例来填补这一空白。本文表明,在欧洲的合并诉讼中,当事人可能会决定在战术上挑战发现的尝试,这导致了一种延迟,这种延迟被战略性地用来获得更多的时间来解决案件,并避免冗长的深入调查,类似于Miceli(1999)理论模型的预测。这种类型的延迟可能有利于合并政党和社会。
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引用次数: 0
Academics in Wonderland: The Team Production and Director Primacy Models of Corporate Governance 仙境中的学者:公司治理的团队生产模型和董事主导模型
Pub Date : 2008-03-03 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.995186
G. Dent
This paper examines the Team Production and Director Primacy Models of corporate governance, finds them wanting, and explains why corporate governance is moving toward shareholder primacy and why this will benefit not only investors but the whole American economy.The director primacy model posits that shareholders are so ill-informed and so divided in their interests that they would self-destruct if they controlled the firm. Accordingly they tie their own hands by ceding control to a board of independent directors. Advocates of the team production theory often agree with the foregoing but stress the importance to the firm of other constituencies, or stakeholders, including suppliers, customers, creditors and, especially, employees. To obtain the needed commitments from these stakeholders firms must credibly promise to treat them well, but these arrangements are too complex to be specified in contracts. If shareholders controlled the firm, they could renege on their implicit promises to stakeholders. Accordingly, firms hand control to a board of disinterested directors who act as mediating hierarchs to balance the interests of all constituencies.These theories are riddled with internal contradictions and fail many tests of empirical verification. In my article I expose these problems and show that the current reality of corporate governance is not control by independent, disinterested directors but by CEOs. I then discuss why the alternative -- shareholder primacy -- has not been achieved. I describe both the obstacles to shareholder control and current trends that are facilitating a stronger investor voice. Finally, I suggest that these trends and new ideas may soon lead to real shareholder primacy, and that this will benefit not only investors but the whole American economy.
本文考察了公司治理的团队生产模型和董事首要模型,发现了它们的不足,并解释了为什么公司治理正朝着股东首要的方向发展,以及为什么这不仅有利于投资者,而且有利于整个美国经济。董事至上模型假设,股东信息不灵通,利益分歧严重,如果他们控制了公司,就会自我毁灭。因此,他们将控制权交给独立董事董事会,从而束缚了自己的手脚。团队生产理论的支持者通常同意上述观点,但强调其他支持者或利益相关者对公司的重要性,包括供应商、客户、债权人,尤其是员工。为了从这些利益相关者那里获得所需的承诺,企业必须可信地承诺善待他们,但这些安排过于复杂,无法在合同中明确规定。如果股东控制公司,他们可能会违背对股东的隐性承诺。因此,公司将控制权交给一个由无私的董事组成的董事会,他们作为调解等级来平衡所有选区的利益。这些理论充满了内部矛盾,并未能通过许多经验验证的测试。在我的文章中,我揭露了这些问题,并表明目前公司治理的现实不是由独立、无私的董事控制,而是由首席执行官控制。然后,我讨论了另一种选择——股东至上——为何未能实现。我既描述了股东控制的障碍,也描述了促进投资者话语权增强的当前趋势。最后,我认为这些趋势和新想法可能很快就会导致真正的股东至上,这不仅有利于投资者,也有利于整个美国经济。
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引用次数: 14
An Examination of the Efficiency, Foreclosure, and Collusion Rationales for Vertical Takeovers 对垂直收购的效率、止赎权和合谋原理的考察
Pub Date : 2008-02-04 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1089043
Jaideep Shenoy
We investigate the efficiency, foreclosure, and collusion rationales for vertical integration in a large sample of vertically related takeovers. The efficiency rationale, as discussed under the transaction cost economics and property rights theories, posits that vertical integration mitigates contractual inefficiencies between suppliers and customers (termed as holdup) and provides incentives to undertake relationship-specific investments. In contrast, the foreclosure and collusion rationales suggest that vertical integration is anticompetitive in nature. Specifically, the foreclosure argument suggests that vertical integration is used to raise costs of rival firms, and the collusion argument suggests that vertical integration facilitates coordination between the integrated firm and its rivals. To distinguish between the three hypotheses, we examine (1) the announcement period wealth effects to the merging firms, rival firms, and customer firms; and (2) the operating performance changes to the merging firms in vertical takeovers. We find that firms expand their vertical boundaries consistent with an efficiency enhancing rationale. This paper was accepted by Brad Barber, finance.
我们调查效率,取消抵押品赎回权,并在纵向相关收购的大样本的纵向整合勾结的理由。正如交易成本经济学和产权理论所讨论的那样,效率理论假定垂直整合减轻了供应商和客户之间的合同低效率(称为拖延),并提供了进行特定关系投资的激励。相比之下,取消抵押品赎回权和共谋的理由表明,垂直整合本质上是反竞争的。具体而言,止赎理论认为垂直整合被用来提高竞争对手的成本,而共谋理论认为垂直整合促进了整合后的公司与其竞争对手之间的协调。为了区分这三种假设,我们考察了(1)公告期财富对合并企业、竞争对手企业和客户企业的影响;(2)垂直并购对并购企业经营绩效的影响。我们发现,企业扩展其垂直边界符合效率提高的基本原理。这篇论文被财经的布拉德·巴伯接受了。
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引用次数: 59
Privately and Socially Optimal Take-Overs when Acquisition and Exclusion Strategies are Endogenous 当收购和排斥策略是内生的时,私人和社会最优收购
Pub Date : 2006-08-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.967594
P. Sercu, Tom Vinaimont
The case for one share/one vote regulation is quite robust to the way the takeover game is played, provided one goes all the way and allows not just toeholds or multiple bids and revisions but also bargaining. But the alternative rule that exclusion should never harm the non-voting shares, or that these shares should be taken over at the pre-bid price, will do equally well, without so severely curtailing a firm's room for security design. Under either rule, all privately beneficial takeovers are socially desirable and vice versa, and the value gains are shared fairly between the current shareholders and the bidder.
一股一票的规定对收购游戏的运作方式来说是相当有力的,只要它能一直走下去,不仅允许立足点或多次出价和修改,还允许讨价还价。但另一种规则——排除不应损害无投票权的股份,或者这些股份应以出价前的价格被收购——也会同样奏效,而且不会严重限制公司的安全设计空间。在这两种规则下,所有对私人有利的收购都是社会期望的,反之亦然,价值收益在现有股东和竞购者之间公平分享。
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引用次数: 0
Why Defer to Managers? A Strong-Form Efficiency Model 为什么要听从经理?强形式效率模型
Pub Date : 2005-07-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.803564
R. Kihlstrom, M. Wachter
We compare the efficiency with which management discretion and shareholder choice regulate hostile tender offers. This is the first paper in a long running debate that rigorously compares these legal rules to analyze both the critical informational assumptions and the interplay of those assumptions with principles of financial market efficiency. A critical innovation of our model is its focus on an informed management's choice among alternative corporate policies under the protection of the business judgment rule, but where agency costs exist. We assume that corporate assets and reinvestment opportunities are efficiently priced by financial markets, but that markets never learn the value of foregone investments. In this case, shareholder choice may create an agency problem whereby managers forego positive net present value investments that increase the risk of a hostile bid. We are able to determine analytic conditions under which the expected cost of this agency problem exceeds that of the standard agency problem usually identified with management discretion.
我们比较了管理层自由裁量权和股东选择调节敌意收购要约的效率。这是长期辩论中第一篇严格比较这些法律规则以分析关键信息假设以及这些假设与金融市场效率原则的相互作用的论文。我们的模型的一个关键创新之处在于,它关注的是在商业判断规则的保护下,在代理成本存在的情况下,知情的管理层在各种公司政策之间的选择。我们假设公司资产和再投资机会是由金融市场有效定价的,但市场永远不会了解放弃的投资的价值。在这种情况下,股东选择可能产生代理问题,即管理者放弃增加敌意收购风险的正净现值投资。我们能够确定这种代理问题的预期成本超过通常与管理自由裁量权等同的标准代理问题的预期成本的分析条件。
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引用次数: 9
Accountability and Responsibility in Corporate Governance 公司管治的问责和责任
Pub Date : 2005-06-20 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.746844
Larry E. Ribstein
A major problem of modern corporate governance is how to reconcile making corporate managers more accountable to shareholders with ensuring that managers respond to society's needs. Managerial agency costs and the existence of markets for social responsibility argue against drastically reducing managers' accountability to shareholders. But it is still not clear precisely where to draw the line between accountability and responsibility. This article's main contribution is showing how resolving this issue turns on analyzing the available options for making managers accountable to shareholders. The logistics of modern corporate governance, particularly including the inherent weakness of fiduciary duties, shareholder voting and the market for corporate control, significantly free managers from shareholder control regardless of whether society demands this freedom. Social responsibility's importance to corporate governance ultimately depends on whether high-powered partnership-type accountability mechanisms such as mandatory distributions and cash-out rights are feasible in public corporations given the double corporate tax and business arguments for locking capital in the firm.
现代公司治理的一个主要问题是,如何协调使公司管理者对股东更负责任与确保管理者响应社会需求之间的关系。管理代理成本和社会责任市场的存在反对大幅减少管理者对股东的责任。但目前仍不清楚在问责制和责任之间的确切界限在哪里。本文的主要贡献在于展示了如何通过分析使管理者对股东负责的可用选项来解决这一问题。现代公司治理的逻辑,特别是包括受托责任、股东投票和公司控制权市场的内在弱点,极大地使经理人摆脱了股东控制,而不管社会是否要求这种自由。社会责任对公司治理的重要性最终取决于,鉴于双重公司税和将资本锁定在公司的商业理由,强制分配和套现权等强有力的合伙制问责机制在上市公司是否可行。
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引用次数: 50
Corporate Governance Convergence Through Cross-Border Mergers: The Case of Aventis 跨国并购中的公司治理趋同:以安万特为例
Pub Date : 2004-11-01 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.586921
C. Cabolis, Arturo Bris
In this paper we illustrate the role of cross-border mergers in the process of corporate governance convergence. We explore in detail the corporate governance provisions in Rhone-Poulenc, a French company, and Hoechst, a German firm, and the resulting structure after the two firms merged in 1999 to create Aventis, legally a French corporation. We show that, despite the nationality of the firm, the corporate governance structure of Aventis is a combination of the corporate governance systems of Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc, where the newly merged firm adopted the most protective provisions of the two merging firms. In some cases this resulted in Aventis' borrowing from the corporate governance structure of Hoechst while in others Aventis replicated Rhone-Poulenc's structure. Most interesting is the situation where Aventis introduced improved provisions over both systems. The resulting corporate governance system in Aventis is significantly more protective than the default French legal system of investor protection.
本文阐述了跨国并购在公司治理趋同过程中的作用。我们详细探讨了法国公司rhon - poulenc和德国公司Hoechst的公司治理规定,以及两家公司于1999年合并创建安万特(Aventis)后的公司结构,安万特在法律上是一家法国公司。我们发现,尽管公司国籍不同,安万特的公司治理结构是Hoechst和Rhone-Poulenc公司治理体系的结合,其中新合并的公司采用了两个合并公司中最具保护性的规定。在某些情况下,这导致安万特借用了Hoechst的公司治理结构,而在其他情况下,安万特则复制了罗纳-普朗克的结构。最有趣的是安万特在这两个系统上引入了改进的条款。由此产生的安万特公司治理体系比法国默认的投资者保护法律体系更具保护性。
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引用次数: 8
Bargaining in the Shadow of Takeover Defenses 在收购防御的阴影下讨价还价
Pub Date : 2003-12-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.442721
Guhan Subramanian
Among the arguments that have been put forward to support the view that takeover defenses increase shareholder returns when a company becomes a takeover target, the "bargaining power hypothesis" is the most commonly cited argument today. Under this theory, takeover defenses allow the target to extract more in a negotiated acquisition because the bidder's no-deal alternative, to make a hostile bid, is worsened. Despite its centrality to the current debate on takeover defenses, the bargaining power hypothesis has never been subjected to a careful theoretical analysis or to a comprehensive empirical test. In this Article I present a model of bargaining in the "shadow" of takeover defenses that introduces alternatives away from the table, hostile bid costs, asymmetric information, and agency costs into the standard bargaining model. I confirm the features of this model using interviews with the heads of mergers and acquisitions at ten major New York City investment banks, which collectively account for 96% of U.S. M&A deal volume. I also present econometric evidence that is consistent with this model. The theoretical model, practitioner interviews, and econometric evidence presented here indicate that the bargaining power hypothesis is unlikely to be valid in many if not most negotiated acquisitions. This conclusion has implications for whether defenses increase or decrease shareholder wealth, and whether the recent pro-takeover movements in the Delaware courts will lead to negative consequences for target shareholders in negotiated acquisitions.
当公司成为收购目标时,收购防御会增加股东回报,在支持这一观点的论据中,“议价能力假说”是当今最常被引用的论据。根据这一理论,收购防御允许被收购方在协商收购中榨取更多,因为收购方的无交易选择——恶意收购——变得更糟了。尽管议价能力假说在当前关于收购防御的辩论中处于中心地位,但它从未受到仔细的理论分析或全面的实证检验。在本文中,我提出了一个收购防御“阴影”下的议价模型,该模型将替代方案、敌意收购成本、不对称信息和代理成本引入标准议价模型。我通过采访纽约市十家主要投资银行的并购主管来证实这个模型的特点,这十家投资银行总共占美国并购交易量的96%。我还提出了与这个模型相一致的计量经济学证据。本文提出的理论模型、从业者访谈和计量经济学证据表明,议价能力假说在许多(如果不是大多数)协商收购中不太可能有效。这一结论对抗辩是否会增加或减少股东财富,以及最近特拉华州法院的支持收购运动是否会在谈判收购中对目标股东产生负面影响产生影响。
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引用次数: 67
Institutional Shareholders, Private Equity, and Antitakeover Protection at the IPO Stage 机构股东、私募股权与IPO阶段的反收购保护
Pub Date : 2003-10-28 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.452722
M. Klausner
Institutional investors have been slow to respond to the widespread presence of takeover defenses in the charters of firms whose shares they hold through private equity funds, and their response to date has been tepid compared to their efforts in the proxy context. Institutions' hesitancy may reflect a rational unwillingness among private equity funds, as well as the institutions' own investment staff, to require portfolio companies to go public with takeover-friendly charters. This article develops a hypothesis to explain the common presence of defenses in the charters of firms that go public with private equity investment and the half-hearted response of institutional investors to this situation. Under this hypothesis - based on private equity funds' need to maintain a reputation for dealing well with successful managers of portfolio companies - it is privately rational but socially inefficient for private equity funds to have their portfolio companies adopt takeover defenses. The implication of the hypothesis is that institutional investors may face at least as difficult a challenge in ridding IPO charters of takeover defenses as they face in urging managers of already-public firms to eliminate defenses from their charters.
机构投资者对他们通过私募股权基金持有的公司章程中普遍存在的收购防御措施反应迟缓,与他们在代理背景下的努力相比,他们迄今为止的反应一直不温不火。机构的犹豫可能反映出,私人股本基金以及机构自身的投资人员,理性地不愿要求投资组合公司持有有利于收购的章程上市。本文提出了一个假设,以解释私募股权投资上市公司章程中普遍存在的抗辩,以及机构投资者对这种情况的半心半意的反应。根据这一假设——基于私人股本基金需要保持与投资组合公司的成功经理人良好打交道的声誉——私人股本基金让其投资组合公司采取收购防御措施,在私下是理性的,但在社会上是低效的。这一假设的含义是,机构投资者在解除IPO章程中的收购防御方面所面临的挑战,可能至少与他们在敦促已上市公司的管理者消除章程中的防御所面临的挑战一样困难。
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引用次数: 25
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