In a $22 billion trans-Atlantic merger in the auto industry, CRA’s expert was hired by plaintiffs to conduct a valuation analysis and opine on the value of the merging firms at the closing date, the value of potential merger synergies, and the valuation effects of different merger exchange ratios. The CRA expert’s valuation analyses resulted in a positive outcome for the client and one of the largest settlements paid in a shareholder class action at the time.
Pivotality: A sound new theory of harm in horizontal mergers?
In its review of the Novelist/Aleris merger, the European Commission relied upon a novel pivotality theory of harm, where pivotality indicates that competitors...