What Really Determine the Payment Methodsin M&A Deals.
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What Really Determine the Payment Methods in M&A Deals 1. Introduction In recent years, the level of corporate acquisition activity has been increasing dramatically. Much work, as a result, has been done in terms of the exploration of Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activities from an individual country's perspective or that of international comparisons. Issues such as the Foreign Direct Investment through M&A, the post-acquisition performance of both bidders and targets, and other aspects, have attracted the most attention for the study in this field over the past years. Among the previous literature, there are several studies by far having attempted to investigate the determinants of payment methods in M&A deals. However, a review of the studies shows that only some specific hypotheses related to the methods of payment have been documented. Moreover, little has been done in this respect attempting to find out and analyze the financing trend in the UK market in...

