Journal article
Global leveraged buyout deal performance: A cross-border cross-cultural perspective
X Jia, M McCourt
Pacific Basin Finance Journal | Published : 2022
Abstract
Using a novel and comprehensive dataset, we find that the deal values of cross-border private equity-backed leveraged buyouts are significantly larger than domestic ones, but after controlling for the effects of diseconomies of scale, the performance of cross-border deals is not significantly different from domestic deals. We identify three channels to enhance cross-border leveraged buyout performance: more deal experience of the private equity sponsor, reduced communication costs, and spillover effects of institutional quality from the sponsor country to the target.
Grants
Awarded by Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Sridhar Arcot, Romain Boulland, Olivier Dessaint, Jos ' e-Miguel Gaspar, Edith Ginglinger, Shan Zhao, and the conference participants at the CEIBS-Cathay Cross-Border Private Equity Workshop (2019) for helpful comments. We also gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 72002077), the CEIBS Cathay Cross-border Private Equity Research Fund, and the French National Research Agency (ANR).