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Is There A First-Drafter Advantage In M&A?, Adam B. Badawi, Elisabeth De Fontenay
Is There A First-Drafter Advantage In M&A?, Adam B. Badawi, Elisabeth De Fontenay
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Market Information And The Elite Law Firm, Elisabeth De Fontenay
Market Information And The Elite Law Firm, Elisabeth De Fontenay
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As a subcategory of contract negotiations, corporate transactions present information problems that have not been fully analyzed. In particular, the literature does not address the possibility that parties may simply be unaware of value-increasing transaction terms or their outside option. Such unawareness can arise even for transactions that attract many competing parties, if the bargaining process is such that (1) the price terms are negotiated and fixed prior to the non-price terms, contrary to the standard assumption; and (2) some of the non-price terms remain private for some period of time.
A simple bargaining model shows that, when such unawareness …