Abstract
This paper explores the market for voting rights and shareholder voting around 350 mergers and acquisitions between 1999 and 2005 by examining institutional-investor trading and voting outcomes. Our results show institutions in aggregate buy shares and hence voting rights before merger record dates. This trading is not related to proxies for merger arbitrage or trading around merger announcements, and thus is not simply a continuation of the latter. Trading and buying before record dates are positively related to voting turnout and negatively related to shareholder support of merger proposals. We explore several possible interpretations of these results.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 129-145 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Journal of Corporate Finance |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Institutions
- Shareholder voting rights
- Trading
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business and International Management
- Finance
- Economics and Econometrics
- Strategy and Management