The performance of reverse leveraged buyouts

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 139-157

  Cao, Jerry ^a   Lerner, Josh ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Exiting; Initial public offerings; Private equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 59149096455     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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