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Case
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Reference no. 9-289-001
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: W Carl Kester (Harvard Business School); Richard Melnick (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1988
Version: 5 September 1991
Length: 14 pages
Data source: Field research
Topics: Production; Products; Capital; International finance; Costing; Recapitalization; Valuation; Restructuring; Equity method; Debt management; Debts; Leveraged buyouts
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Abstract

Concerns the first leveraged buyout to occur in Japan. Analytic tasks include a valuation of the company and an assessment of its debt capacity. Also provides opportunities to discuss agency costs associated with alternative capital and equity ownership structures, differences between US and Japanese corporate finance practices, and the potential role of leveraged buyouts in the restructuring of Japanese manufacturing.
Location:
United States, Japan
Size:
USD25 million revenues
Other setting(s):
1986
Teaching note
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Reference no. 5-290-017
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: W Carl Kester (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Published in: 1990
Length: 21 pages
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Abstract

Concerns the first leveraged buyout to occur in Japan. Analytic tasks include a valuation of the company and an assessment of its debt capacity. Also provides opportunities to discuss agency costs associated with alternative capital and equity ownership structures, differences between US and Japanese corporate finance practices, and the potential role of leveraged buyouts in the restructuring of Japanese manufacturing.

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Location:
United States, Japan
Size:
USD25 million revenues
Other setting(s):
1986

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Teaching note
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Reference no. 5-290-017
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: W Carl Kester (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Published in: 1990
Length: 21 pages
View full details