In recent years, private placements have emerged as the preferred method of raising equity on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE). Private placements have a discriminatory character, and dilutes the non-participating shareholders. ...

The prediction of takeover targets has been covered in several studies. However, it tends to be the same major stock exchanges that are subject to analysis. Based on 153 Norwegian public targets from 1995 to 2012, ...

This thesis is split into two main sections. The first part investigates seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) on Euronext Oslo and Nasdaq Stockholm’s main list during the period 2017 to 2022, as well as characteristics of ...

During the last decades, private placements have become the preferred approach for issuing equity on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE), despite its discriminatory nature. With a sample consisting of 95 events (private placements) ...

This thesis aims to add to the difficult issue of announcement returns in rivals of acquisition targets. As existing M&A literature has predominantly focused on the acquirer, the target, and the merged entity, much remains ...

The main purpose of this thesis is to empirically examine the relationship between the target firm’s ownership concentration and deal probability, conditional on a bid having been made. To examine this relationship in a ...

This thesis examines the relative success of the Norwegian bankruptcy legislation with reference to similar mechanisms in Sweden and the U.S. Based on the total population of financially distressed Norwegian companies ...

The takeover literature appears to lack comprehensive studies on the shareholder wealth effects of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in emerging markets (EMs). In this thesis, using a sample consisting of 542 initial takeover ...

Denne studien undersøker norsk retts vektlegging av aksjekurs ved fastsettelse av innløsningssummen i tvangsinnløsningssaker. Vi utfører dokumentstudie av samtlige rettsavgjørelser etter 2003, og gir vi en helhetlig ...