{"title":"How Much Does Your Banker’s Target-Specific Experience Matter? Evidence from Target IPO Underwriters that Advise Acquirers","authors":"Richard Herron","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2889506","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In a sample of 1,507 US all-public acquisitions from 1985–2014, 5% of acquirers use the same advisor that underwrote the target’s initial public offering. Acquirers who use these informed advisors have acquisition announcement three-day cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) that are 2.048 percentage points higher, all else equal. Same-advisor acquisition announcements have higher combined CARs but not lower target CARs, suggesting higher synergies instead of lower deal premia. Same-advisor acquisition announcement outperformance decays as the target ages and grows. These findings show the value and timeliness of investment bank information production, retention, and transfer.","PeriodicalId":51503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Financial Services Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2019-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Financial Services Research","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2889506","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In a sample of 1,507 US all-public acquisitions from 1985–2014, 5% of acquirers use the same advisor that underwrote the target’s initial public offering. Acquirers who use these informed advisors have acquisition announcement three-day cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) that are 2.048 percentage points higher, all else equal. Same-advisor acquisition announcements have higher combined CARs but not lower target CARs, suggesting higher synergies instead of lower deal premia. Same-advisor acquisition announcement outperformance decays as the target ages and grows. These findings show the value and timeliness of investment bank information production, retention, and transfer.
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The Journal of Financial Services Research publishes high quality empirical and theoretical research on the demand, supply, regulation, and pricing of financial services. Financial services are broadly defined to include banking, risk management, capital markets, mutual funds, insurance, venture capital, consumer and corporate finance, and the technologies used to produce, distribute, and regulate these services. Macro-financial policy issues, including comparative financial systems, the globalization of financial services, and the impact of these phenomena on economic growth and financial stability, are also within the JFSR’s scope of interest. The Journal seeks to promote research that enriches the profession’s understanding of financial services industries, to elevate industry and product efficiencies, as well as to inform the debate and promote the formulation of sound public policies. Officially cited as: J Financ Serv Res