December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
43h 42m
English
B. Espen Eckbo Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Karin S. Thorburn Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
This chapter surveys the empirical literature on corporate breakup transactions (divestitures, spinoffs, equity carveouts, tracking stocks), leveraged recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts (LBOs). Many breakup transactions are a response to excessive conglomeration and reverse costly diversification discounts. The empirical evidence shows that the typical restructuring creates substantial value for shareholders. The value-drivers include elimination of costly cross-subsidizations characterizing internal capital markets, reduction in financing costs for subsidiaries through ...