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ODE PROJECT
ADVERSE SELECTION ON
MARTINSA-FADESA MERGER.
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1) Press article:
Entre las incidencias destacadas en el informe, al que ha tenido acceso Efe, figuran
discrepancias en la superficie bruta, divergencias entre la calificación urbanística
considerada y la real, y la consideración como urbanizable de suelo no urbanizable.
Ese espacio era, por tanto, de imposible desarrollo urbanístico, relata el informe de
American Appraisal, que también da cuenta de otros casos como el de un suelo de
interés forestal situado a los pies del embalse Guadalhorce, en Antequera (Málaga),
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que CB Richard Ellis calificó como potencialmente urbanizable, tras fiarse de la
información de Fadesa.
Como respuesta, Jove presentó una demanda contra Martín en el juzgado de primera
instancia número 2 de Madrid, por incumplimiento del pacto de no agresión que ambos
firmaron tras la venta de Fadesa, reclamación que ha sido admitida a trámite.
Reference: www.invertia.com
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2) INTRODUCTION:
Fernando Martín was born in 30/05/1947 in Trigueros del Valle (Valladolid). He was
graduated in Chemistry in Valladolid University. He was the provincial secretary of the
“Unión de Centro Democrático” until 1982. He founded the property company Martinsa
in 1991. He jumped to fame on February 2006 when he announced he would be
president of Real Madrid following the resignation of Florentino Perez.
Manuel Jove Capellán was born on 21/06/1941 in La Coruña. He started his own
business as a carpenter at the early age of 17. Manuel Jove founded in the late 70´s the
property company Fadesa. Fadesa became the most important company on his sector
until it was sold to Martinsa in 2007.
In 2007 just a few months before the property bubble burst Fernando Martín and his
partner Antonio Martín bought Fadesa, which had a ready expanded business across
Spain. Martinsa paid to Jove´s family 2209 million euros for the 54,6% of the company
´s capital. In the takeover-bid Martinsa paid 35.70€ per share and its actual value is
7.30€.
The information asymmetry has as consequence the break of contract by the parties. It
also helps to break the obligations inherent to the contract, originating two kinds of
problems. On one hand if the asymmetry exists before contracting we are under adverse
selection; on the other hand if this asymmetry occurs after contracting the problem is
called moral hazard.
Negotiation problems occur when one of the parts who intervene in the exchange has
got and hides information that the other part ignores. As a consequence potentially
advantageous deals could become unfeasible or detrimental for the other part.
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As long as contracting parties are conscious about the information asymmetry and with
a rational behaviour they will tend to reject a contract under those conditions. That is,
the exchange will only be viable if they introduce protection mechanism avoiding
opportunism. We must take into account that the asymmetry usually affects to both
parts of the relationship.
First of all we must differentiate between the principal and the agent. In this case the
principal is the buyer (Martinsa), and the agent is the seller (Fadesa).
As we can see Jove concealed information before the sign of the selling contract to
Martinsa, so the agent had private information on value and cost. As consequence
Fernando Martín accepted a detrimental contract because
p(V-C)+(1-p)(v-C)≥ (1-p)(v-c)→p≥(C-c)/(V-c)
The manipulated information of the assets´ value had as consequence an expected loss
of 1576 million euros for Martinsa.
On one hand Jove says the assets´ valuation was made by an independent company so
he has no legal responsibility on it. On the other hand, Martin blamed Jove for having a
designed and conscious plan to obtain a very significant overvalue of the company by
providing false information to the firm responsible for the valuation of the assets (CB
Richar Ellis) As we have studied, we are talking about a formal contract, so the reaction
of Fernando Martín was to make a formal complaint in the Spanish courts.
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