Irrevocable commitments, going private and private equity

European Financial Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 757-775

  Wright, Mike ^a   Weir, Charlie ^b   Burrows, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Irrevocable commitments; Public to private transactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547903217     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2007.00382.x     Document Type: Article

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