In this post by Professor Afra Afsharipour of the UC Davis School of Law, she discussed what she identifies as the bidder overpayment problem, where bidders often pay more for publicly traded targets due to managerial agency costs and behavioral biases. The article notes that there are less monitoring mechanisms for bidder shareholders than there
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation recently posted an analysis by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz of the Delaware Supreme Court’s recent decision in SWS, summarily affirming the Delaware Chancery Court’s award of fair value at 7.8% below the merger price. The authors observe that SWS is the first Delaware
In the Columbia Pipeline Group appraisal case, as reported in Law360 [$$], Vice Chancellor Laster rejected the stockholders’ request to stay or, in the alternative, extend the fact discovery deadline for 2 months pending the appeal of the Aruba Networks ruling. The court stated in its March 7 ruling that the shareholders should have
On Friday, Vice Chancellor Glasscock issued his ruling in the AOL appraisal case. The court first set out to determine whether the merger transaction was “Dell Compliant,” which the Court defined to be “[w]here information necessary for participants in the market to make a bid is widely disseminated, and where the terms of the transaction
We’ve written before about the SWS appraisal case, decided in mid 2017. After the ruling, petitioners appealed to the Delaware Supreme Court. On Wednesday, February 21, the Delaware Supreme Court held oral argument (which you can watch on this site). Part of the argument focused on the concept of size premium – a primer
Today Vice Chancellor Laster issued his ruling in the Aruba Networks appraisal case. The award set the stock’s fair value at Aruba’s thirty-day average unaffected market price, which was $17.13 per share, well below the merger price of $24.67.
The Harvard Business Law Review has published “The High Cost of Fewer Appraisal Claims in 2017: Premia Down, Agency Costs Up” an article we’ve blogged about previously, including commentary from interested authors. The HBLR piece, by Matthew Schoenfeld, argues that weakened shareholder litigation reduces the acquisition premium in mergers. This is another
The Delaware Supreme Court issued its highly-anticipated ruling today in the Dell appraisal case, reversing and remanding the trial court’s 28% premium awarded to the stockholders. In sum, the court held that where a company is sold in a pristine M&A auction process, the chancery court must give the merger price “heavy weight” in its
Today’s Law360 [[$$]] reported on the oral argument conducted yesterday before Chancellor Bouchard in the Solera appraisal case.
** This firm is among the counsel of record in Solera.
On Monday, Law360 [$$] reported that the stockholders in the Clearwire appraisal action filed their opening brief in support of their appeal of the Chancery Court’s ruling, which found the fair value of Clearwire Corp. to be $2.13 per share, well below the $5 per share deal price paid by Sprint Nextel Corp. As reported