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: The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance BlogCVRs ? A Bridge Too Far?
By Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance
In a recent M&A Update we addressed the practical challenges of using earnouts in private company M&A to bridge the final valuation gap in sale negotiations. An equally daunting set of obstacles applies to the implementation of the public M&A version of earnouts ? Contingent Value/Payment Rights (CVRs). We use the term CVRs to refer to a variety of techniques that provide public company target shareholders with valuation protection or additional consideration based on post-closing events. This protection can take several forms:
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Full post as published by The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog on March 03, 2011 (boomark / email).
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