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- Title
Appraisal Arbitrage: Closing The Floodgates on Hedge Funds and Activist Shareholders.
- Authors
Boyd, Craig
- Abstract
The article focuses on the issues related to appraisal arbitrage affecting the corporate landscape of mergers across the U.S. Topics discussed include the Delaware Court of Chancery's decision in re Appraisal of Transkaryotic Therapies Inc. court case which allows hedge funds and activist shareholders the opportunity to survey market conditions before buying a company's stock; protection of the long-term minority shareholders; and evolution of shareholder appraisal rights.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ARBITRAGE; MERGERS &; acquisitions; TRANSKARYOTIC Therapies Inc.; HEDGE funds; STOCKHOLDERS; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
Kansas Law Review, 2016, Vol 65, Issue 2, p497
- ISSN
0083-4025
- Publication type
Article