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Unit Management Buyouts, Stockholder Wealth, And Selling Firms' Characteristics

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  • Wallace N. Davidson
  • Louis T.W. Cheng

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Previous research on unit management buyouts, UMBs, has shown that selling firms benefit from the selloff transaction. The current research demonstrates that when the selling firm has either poor liquidity or poor earnings, selling firm shareholders do not benefit as much. We hypothesize that the unit managers have knowledge about the selling firm's difficulties so they do not pay as large a premium for the assets. Since the unit managers technically are employed by the selling firm shareholders, their bargaining to achieve a better price is an agency cost. Finally, selloff frequency does not affect seller abnormal returns.

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  • Wallace N. Davidson & Louis T.W. Cheng, 1994. "Unit Management Buyouts, Stockholder Wealth, And Selling Firms' Characteristics," Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 563-576, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jbfnac:v:21:y:1994:i:4:p:563-576
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.1994.tb00336.x
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