What is it about?
We investigate loan price in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), using hand-matched loan information for a sample of 512 U.S. M&A transactions. We find the relative size of a deal constitutes a prominent determinant of the loan price measured by the all-in spread drawn (AISD). This result is robust to several specifications that address endogeneity concerns. Cross-sectional analyses show that aggravated credit risk and information uncertainty after M&A go some way towards explaining lenders' concerns over large relative deal size. Further analysis demonstrates higher AISD is associated with lower post-transaction performance, indicating loan price factors in the risk of poor post-transaction performance correctly.
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Why is it important?
Dig deep into companies' acquisition financing and understand how large investments shape the price of bank loans.
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In MBA classes, we taught students that cost of capital should be appropriate for the risk of a project which may or may not be the same as the company's weighted average cost of capital. In practice, do firms and lenders follow this recommendation? Based on a hand-matched large sample of banks loans used to finance M&A transactions, our answer is "yes!". However, what are the main drivers of loan price in M&A transactions? Our study only reveals a small part of the answers.
Professor Ning Gao
University of Manchester
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This page is a summary of: Loan price in mergers and acquisitions, Journal of Corporate Finance, April 2021, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101754.
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