Abstract
This paper shows that a vibrant and economically important public-to-private market has reemerged in the US, UK and Continental Europe, since the second half of the 1990s.The paper shows recent trends and investigates the motives for public-to-private and LBO transactions.The reasons for the potential sources of shareholder wealth effects during the transaction period are examined: a distinction is made between tax benefits, incentive realignment, transaction costs savings, stakeholder expropriation, takeover defenses and corporate undervaluation.The paper also attempts to relate these value drivers to the post-transaction value and to the duration of the private status.Finally, the paper draws some conclusions about whether or not public-to-private transactions are useful devices for corporate restructuring.
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