by Julian Kaboth, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management / Arnd Lodowicks, Freie Universität Berlin / Maximilian Schreiter, Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL) / Bernhard Schwetzler, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management – Department of Finance.
Venture capital often involves complex equity contracts, which affect the allocation of cash flows among shareholdings at an exit liquidation. To facilitate economic impact analysis, we structure exit relevant preferential rights by their economic impact in a two-dimensional framework.