Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, typically known in the marketplace as ‘SPACs’, are publicly listed companies established with the aim of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more...

This paper provides an introduction to buyouts and the academic literature about them. Buyouts are initiated by “buyout funds”, which are limited partnerships raised from mostly institutional investors. The funds earn returns for their investors by improving the operations of the firms they...

By holding assets longer and increasingly focusing on growth strategies private equity firms enter the territory of strategic buyers. In one such strategy, a private equity firm buys a company and then builds on that "platform" through add-on acquisitions. We ask whether such serial...