author: patrick a gaughan

... Corporation, which is a subsidiary of the Boston-based High Voltage Engineering Corporation. Amanda challenged the Wisconsin law that prevented it ... acquisitions. When an acquiring company assumes a large amount of debt to ... 5:18 Page 99.

... King, Icahn failed to win the crucial support of the institutional investors. He lost the battle by a 41.3% to 58.7% margin in Texaco's favor. The key to Texaco's win was Icahn's failure to receive support from the institutions holding ...

... AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS TO COMMENCE CASH TENDER OFFER FOR AMERICAN CYANAMID AT $ 95 PER SHARE Madison , N.J. , August 9 , 1994 -- American Home Products Corporation ( NYSE : AHP ) announced today that its Board of Directors has formally ...

... law, 104–105 Delaware General Corporation Law, Rule 251h (impact), 359–360 Del Monte decision, stapled financing ... Corporations management/directors/shareholders, flowchart, 478f public corporations, income reporting, 606–607 structure ...

... case , it was shown that only a small minority of firms like the plaintiff ... STUDY : LIGHTNING LUBE , INC . V. WITCO During the period 1985-89 , Lightning Lube , Inc. , a New Jersey corporation , was a quick ... minutes . The owner of the ...

... case in the 1988 recapitalization of Interco, a St. Louis—based conglomerate with major brand names (e.g., London Fog, Florsheim Shoes, Converse Shoes, Lane ... Interco case is an example of a bidding contest 180 Valuation and Overpaying.

... market, whereas Coke's own Powerade brand accounted for just over 10% of that market. The whole sports drink business had grown significantly; Powerade had a distant second position to the leader Gatorade, and Coke was having great ...

This is an important topic, as a proper valuation can be the key between a successful and a failed transaction. The author, Patrick Gaughan a noted expert in the field takes an interdisciplinary approach.

... Home Depot case study that follows. CASE. STUDY: HOME. DEPOT—ACQUIRING. A. SUPPLIER. 169 Home Depot is the very successful home improvement chain founded in 1978 by Arthur Blank (maybe better known now for being the owner of the Atlanta ...

... Baumol. As the next excerpt from the opinion reveals, the court rejected his econometric analysis and found the conclusions he derived from it to be unreasonable. Professor Baumol freely admits that any model is colored by the ...

... HUBRIS HYPOTHESIS OF TAKEOVERS An interesting hypothesis regarding takeover motives has been pro- posed by Richard Roll.34 He considers the role that hubris , or the ... HUBRIS HYPOTHESIS OF TAKEOVERS 145 The Hubris Hypothesis of Takeovers.