This Bloomberg BNA piece, “Dealmakers Eye Safeguards Amid Rising Valuation Challenges,” observes the spike in appraisal activity and queries whether M&A buyers are taking added steps to address appraisal risk.
Blow Provisions
A Critique of Pegging Appraised Fair Value at Merger Price
By Steve Hecht on
In a new post by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Professor Albert Choi (Virginia Law School) and Professor Eric Talley (Columbia Law School) present their new working paper, which asks how best to measure “fair value” in an appraisal proceeding.
Applying principles of game theory and auction design,…
Blow Provisions: A Threat to Appraisal?
By Steve Hecht on
Posted in Appraisal Conditions, Blow Provisions
We posted recently about attempts by M&A buyers to include a closing condition in the merger agreement that would relieve the buyer from closing if a triggering percentage of appraisal rights are exercised. As an illustration of such a condition, CBOE Holdings — which owns the Chicago Board Options Exchange — succeeded in including a…