Regulating Mergers and Acquisitions of U.S. Electric Utilities: Industry Concentration and Corporate Complication

Regulating Mergers and Acquisitions of U.S. Electric Utilities: Industry Concentration and Corporate Complication
Author: Scott Hempling
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1839109467

What happens when electric utility monopolies pursue their acquisition interests—undisciplined by competition, and insufficiently disciplined by the regulators responsible for replicating competition? Since the mid-1980s, mergers and acquisitions of U.S. electric utilities have halved the number of local, independent utilities. Mostly debt-financed, these transactions have converted retiree-suitable investments into subsidiaries of geographically scattered conglomerates. Written by one of the U.S.’s leading regulatory thinkers, this book combines legal, accounting, economic and financial analysis of the 30-year march of U.S. electricity mergers with insights from the dynamic field of behavioral economics.

Profiles of Industrial Consolidation

Profiles of Industrial Consolidation
Author: Marc Petz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN:

Industrial consolidation is a global trend that evolved during the last three decades. Market liberalisation and privatisation represent initial key transformation processes for this phenomenon in the energy sector. The energy sector moved over to common interest during the last years: The number and volume of international large-scale mergers increased, and new multinational super utility champions gained momentum (Graeme 2002). For example, the bid for the Spanish Endesa in 2006 included the second largest cash offer with an amount of nearly US$ 66 billion by Eon in history of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A). In addition, those transformation processes allowed new growth opportunities, e.g. in new or emerging markets. While competitors in liberalised energy markets seek to strengthen their market position, their underlying strategies reveal distinct differences and potentially differing degrees of performance. Therefore, the M&A transactions in the energy sector show specific characteristics in corporate strategy regarding size, integration level and geographical scope. According to the industrial logic, the big players in the merger endgame focused on their core competences. The champions followed the theories of growth to realise economies of scale, scope and density (Panzar and Willig 1981; Chandler 1990). This empiric study analyzes the M&A activities in Latin America's energy market with focus on Argentina, Brazil and Chile. The specific characteristics and motives for utilities' M&A activities in these three countries serve as a good model how diverse industrial consolidation took place after the liberalisation and privatisation in Latin America during the 90's. Furthermore, the study provides an analysis about the corporate strategies. The study is structured as follows: After the abstract, the second section gives a brief overview and background information about the objectives and differences in the implementation of the transformation processes in Argentina, Brazil and Chile before privatisation. The third section explains the research methodology of the empiric study. The fourth section illustrates the research findings and results on industrial consolidation in the Latin American markets. The fifth section addresses the conclusions. The final section gives an outlook for further development in those countries.

Roll-Up

Roll-Up
Author: Thomas J. Flaherty
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1626349282

The ultimate guide to the ongoing consolidation of the utilities industry ​Roll-Up delves into the rich history of utilities consolidation—from the original, highly fragmented U.S. industry structure, through the development of industry views on consolidation and participation, to the drivers and events occurring in the cycles of the modern era, from 1995–2020. Expert utilities consultant Tom Flaherty interviewed eleven current or former chief executive officers, investment bankers, attorneys, and ratings analysts who provided introspection and commentary on their experiences with consolidation in the modern era. These notable individuals made the tough decisions about whether to pursue a transaction, evaluated the logic of potential combinations, crafted merger agreements, designed the process for successful outcomes, and guided the execution of mergers through the strategy, financing, regulatory, and integration processes. In Roll-Up, Flaherty has combined these interviews of experts in the utilities industry with detailed research and decades of experience to explore topics like • the changing motivations for combinations, • hands-on perspectives of successful transaction execution, • the current nature of business simplification and portfolio rationalization, • what could happen next for utility mergers and acquisitions. Roll-Up covers the past and present of utilities consolidation and looks over the horizon at how future transactions might evolve beyond those historically conducted.