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Stock Market Value And Deal Value In Appraisal Proceedings, Robert T. Miller
Stock Market Value And Deal Value In Appraisal Proceedings, Robert T. Miller
Notre Dame Law Review
This Essay considers two methods of valuing public companies in the context of appraisal proceedings under section 262 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL). The first method relies on the efficient capital markets hypothesis (ECMH) and values the company based on the market price of its shares before any public disclosure of the possibility of a transaction (the unaffected market price). The second relies on the price that an unrelated party agrees to pay to acquire the company in a transaction negotiated at arm’s length after a robust sales process by the selling board (the deal price). Both the …
Appraising Problems, Not Stuff, Chad J. Pomeroy
Appraising Problems, Not Stuff, Chad J. Pomeroy
Faculty Articles
If you are a lawyer, you will deal with value. "Value," here, means the valuation of something. And all lawyers must concern themselves with this, in some way, at some point. Business lawyers, of course, help clients craft business plans, transactional strategies, and documents. Essentially, these are entirely directed to exchanges of value. Litigation lawyers, too, are effectively always contesting matters of value-lawsuits turn on the value of goods, opportunities, injuries, or any number of things. Family lawyers, government lawyers, criminal lawyers-all lawyers must deal with items or things of value at some point.