CEO Preferences and Acquisitions — The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

Small business need-to-know and of-interest, M&A.  Did you know this?  It just might affect your plans?

Excerpt: We find strong evidence that target CEOs’ retirement preferences affect merger patterns. In data on U.S. public firms from 1992 to 2008, the likelihood of a takeover bid increases sharply when the target CEO reaches age 65

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