In 2007, HOYA Japan must decide whether to change your friendly exchange for Pentax offer a hostile tender offer of cash. Surprising sequence of events led the friendly merger agreement to fall apart, in a coup in the meeting room and the intervention group Pentax Sparx, indigenous Japanese activist hedge funds. The case raises questions about corporate evaluation, corporate governance, shareholder activism, tactics absorption deal, and in the Japanese market for corporate control.
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on W. Carl Kester, Masako Egawa Source: Harvard Business School 26 pages. Publication Date: March 9, 2009. Prod. #: 209065-PDF-ENG