OPINION: Boards of directors ought to be careful about over estimating the value of their companies. They could find themselves subject to aggressive direct action.
, IFM Investors taking a position on the Atlas Arteria register and Apollo buying into Challenger.
The chart pack lists 10 sharemarket raids on companies which were the subject of takeover offers last year. It says pre-bid stakes are increasingly being used by bidders to “increase execution certainty, reduce interloper risk and lower overall bid price”.Aidan Allen, Jarden A consultant with experience in many private equity transactions says the debate over cost of capital is revived when interest rates rise.“When you get shifts in the cost of capital, there is a period of transitional uncertainty of ‘what number to use’, which can lead to materially divergent views on valuation,” he says.
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