The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation posted yesterday on Merger Negotiations in the Shadow Judicial Appraisal. In this post, Professors Brian Broughman, Audra Boone, and Antonio Macias address the explosion in merger litigation over the past decade and present their empirical study testing the competing explanations of the ex-ante effect of appraisal litigation on M&A activity. As reported in their study, their evidence implies that “appraisal remedies afford important protection for minority shareholders” during their sample period.
New Study on Appraisal’s Protection of Minority Shareholders
