Online Appendix for 'Seller Debt in Acquisitions of Private Firms: A Security Design Approach'

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Mark Jansen

University of Utah - Department of Finance

Thomas H. Noe

University of Oxford - Said Business School; University of Oxford - Balliol College; Bank of Finland; European Corporate Governance Institute

Ludovic Phalippou

University of Oxford - Said Business School

Date Written: May 7, 2023

Abstract

This appendix describes the related literature and provides derivations and additional results for "Seller Debt in Acquisitions of Private Firms: A Security Design Approach." Section A describes additional related literature. Sections B, C, and D provide additional results that were not established in the main text. Section E shows that almost all common "textbook" distributions satisfy the ratio condition (i.e., Assumption 4 when they satisfy the MLR ordering assumptions (i.e., Assumptions 1 and 2). Section F considers two extensions using a simple three-point cash flow distribution model: seller debt can be optimal whenever 1) acquirers are confident about their value-add plan, and 2) sellers have private information about the compatibility of their assets with the plan.


The paper is available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3731086

Keywords: Security design, private capital, private asset acquisition, asymmetric information, seller financing, screening equilibrium, tranching, disagreement

JEL Classification: G34, D86, D82, G32, G24

Suggested Citation

Jansen, Mark and Noe, Thomas H. and Phalippou, Ludovic, Online Appendix for 'Seller Debt in Acquisitions of Private Firms: A Security Design Approach' (May 7, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3830518 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3830518

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Thomas H. Noe

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Ludovic Phalippou

University of Oxford - Said Business School ( email )

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