Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Corporate Governance Garrow A New Hypothesis on the Determinants of Acquisitions Nigel Garrow Introduction Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is a significant factor in business in most advanced economies. According to Thomson Reuters, the value of M&A deals completed globally during the 12 months to November 2009 was US$1.8 trillion. However, the acquirers’ shareholders often lose value. Much of the literature on M&A is centred on the
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automobile producers were forced to develop new types of automobiles to meet demand. This allowed bargaining power in the buyer’s hands. This caused automobile companies to increase their production efficiency, restructure, and enter strategic alliances (mergers and acquisitions) to realize the economies of scale and scope. The Korean automobile industry was characterized by weak domestic demand, which resulted in continuous oversupply. The market was also completely dependent on Japanese technology to produce
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V O L U M E 1 7 | N U M B E R 4 | FALL 2005 Journal of APPLIED COR PORATE FINANCE A MO RG A N S TA N L E Y P U B L I C AT I O N In This Issue: Executive Pay and Corporate Governance Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues A Remedy for the Executive Pay Problem: The Case for “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” Developments in Remuneration Policy Corporate Culture and the Problem of Executive Compensation Taking Shareholder Protection Seriously? Corporate Governance in the U.S
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providers are taking on mergers and acquisitions in order to improve operational efficiency, patient care and lower their costs. Some of the reasons behind consolidation in the industry are: 1) seeking economies of scale, 2) drawing on a partner’s unique clinical or managerial strengths, 3) gaining geographic strength to better serve patient and community needs, 4) improved access to capital and 5) better leverage in payer negotiations. In 2011, there were 86 hospital merger and acquisition deals
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|Merger and Acquisition | INDEX |S.NO |Contents |Page No. | |1 |Abstract |3 | |2 |Introduction |4
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Stryker’s products focus on implants for joint replacement, trauma, spinal surgical products, neurologic and endoscopic equipment. The company has well diversified product portfolios with solid fundamentals. Over the years, the company’s accretive mergers and acquisitions brought operational synergies and cost efficiency, strengthening the pipeline with increasing profitability. This paper examines Stryker’s capital budgeting process (CER – Capital Expense Request) and why this process, after its
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principle and interest payments. Once the buyer has determined that the LBO is financially feasible it works on acquiring enough cash for the acquisition by incurring debt. Doing an LBO is expensive and the process can be complex. LBO’s are popular in merger and acquisition as the acquiring organization uses money borrowed to fund the acquisition. The assets of the target organization are used as collateral to get the loan. LBO enables organization to make a big acquisition without using a lot of
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Assignment Merck’s acquisition of Medco: Merger Analysis and Recommendation by Marzena Porebski . Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 2.0 THE COMPANY OVERVIEW 3 2.1 Merck & Company 3 2.2 Medco Containment Services Inc. 5 2.3 The Companies Advantages 6 3.0 MERCK & MEDCO MERGER 7 3.1 Acquisition Details 7 3.2 Merger Analysis 7 4.0 CONCLUSION 11 5.0 APPENDIX 12 5.1 Financial Reports 12 5.2 Sales of Drugs and Prices 13 5.3 Merger and Acquisition Activity 14 5.4 Market
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culture of both companies. Assuming that I had to bring the news to either of the two parties, I would make sure to have done my homework first. The probably first issue that has to be addressed would be the price of the acquisition. Before the merger, Sirtris’ stock was trading at USD 12 per share, GSK however offered the company USD 22.50 per share for the acquisition. Since this is almost double the amount that
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regime of `large number of small banks' to `small number of large banks'. The aim of this paper is to probe into the various motivations for mergers and acquisitions in the Indian Banking sector. Thus, literature is reviewed to look into the various motivations behind a banks’ merger/ acquisition event. The paper also takes us through the international mergers & acquisitions scenario comparing it with the Indian scene. Given the increasing role of the economic power in the turf war of nations,
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