Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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ISBN: 9780134083278
Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 29, Problem 20P
Summary Introduction
To discuss: The way in which a controlling family can use a pyramidal control structure to benefit an expense of another shareholder.
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A company whose ownership structure is arranged in the form a top-down chain of control is termed as pyramidal control structure.
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