Research handbook on mergers and acquisitions / edited by Claire A. Hill, Professor and James L. Krusemark Chair in Law, University of Minnesota Law School, USA; Steven Davidoff Solomon, Deal Professor, the New York Times, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, USA.
2016
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Research handbook on mergers and acquisitions / edited by Claire A. Hill, Professor and James L. Krusemark Chair in Law, University of Minnesota Law School, USA; Steven Davidoff Solomon, Deal Professor, the New York Times, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, USA.
Published
Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2016]
Call Number
KF1477 .R47 2016
ISBN
1784711470
9781784711474 (cased)
9781784711481 (eBook)
9781784711474 (cased)
9781784711481 (eBook)
Description
xvi, 480 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)952369783
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Gift
Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
List of figures
viii
List of tables
ix
List of contributors
x
Introduction
1
pt. I
HISTORY AND OVERVIEW
1.
Mergers and acquisitions: a cyclical and legal phenomenon / Steven Davidoff Solomon
13
2.
M&A contracts: purposes, types, regulation, and patterns of practice / John C. Coates
29
3.
market for corporate control: survey of the empirical evidence, estimation issues, and potential areas for future research / Darius Palia
66
pt. II
FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES
4.
modern business judgment rule / D. Gordon Smith
83
5.
Equivalence: form and substance in business acquisitions / Charles K. Whitehead
99
pt. III
TRANSACTION STRUCTURING
6.
founders' guide to unicorn creation: how liquidation preferences in M&A transactions affect start-up valuation / Robert P. Bartlett
123
7.
Addressing informational challenges with earnouts in mergers and acquisitions / Albert H. Choi
154
pt. IV
TAKEOVER AND DEAL DEFENSES
8.
Takeover defenses: the lay of the land and disputed sign posts / Jordan M. Barry
181
9.
Staggered boards: practice, theory, and evidence / Simone M. Sepe
200
10.
Deal protection devices: the negotiation, protection, and enforcement of M&A transactions / Megan Wischmeier Shaner
216
pt. V
STANDARDS OF REVIEW
11.
role of judicial opinions in shaping M&A practice / Jacob J. Fedechko
245
12.
reconfiguring of Revlon / Lyman Johnson
263
13.
Freezeouts: doctrine and perspectives / Guhan Subramanian
285
pt. VI
LITIGATION
14.
Settlements and fees in merger litigation / Sean J. Griffith
305
15.
Lead plaintiffs and lead counsel in deal litigation / David H. Webber
319
pt. VII
STATUTORY ISSUES
16.
deterrence value of stockholder appraisal / Minor Myers
335
17.
Tender offers and disclosure: the history and future of the Williams Act / Christina M. Sautter
352
pt. VIII
SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM
18.
Activist stockholders, corporate governance challenges, and Delaware law / Jason S. Tyler
377
19.
Short- and long-term investors (and other stakeholders too): must (and do) their interests conflict? / Brett H. McDonnell
396
pt. IX
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
20.
Canadian M&A: a comparative perspective / Christopher C. Nicholls
419
21.
Legal transplants in the law of the deal: M&A agreements in India / Afra Afsharipour
445
Index
465