Law 360 M&A

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

News & World Report annual rankings, law schools abandon a profoundly flawed system and free up their resources to adapt to the tsunami of changes overtaking the profession, says Nicholas Allard at Jacksonville University College of Law. By opting out of participating in the U.S.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This post is based on their symposium article, Ousted , forthcoming in Theoretical Inquiries in Law. This post is based on their symposium article, Ousted , forthcoming in Theoretical Inquiries in Law. Bebchuk and Kobi Kastiel; and Lucky CEOs and Lucky Directors (discussed on the Forum here ) by Lucian A.

Technology 229

Technology Marketability 229

Mckinsey and Company

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The legislation represents a transformative shift in the amount of funds available to improve the country’s water infrastructure.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Posted by Stephen Davis (Harvard Law School), on Friday, September 15, 2023 Editor's Note: Stephen M. Davis is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance and a Co-organizer of the Capital+Constitution project. more…)

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Posted by Robert Bartlett (Stanford Law School), on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 Editor's Note: Robert Bartlett is the W. Franke Professor of Law and Business and faculty co-director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School. This post is based on his recent paper.

Finance 311

Finance Equity 311

Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This post is based on their BLB&G memorandum and is part of the Delaware law series ; links to other posts in the series are available here. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Independent Directors and Controlling Shareholders (discussed on the Forum here ) by Lucian Bebchuk and Assaf Hamdani.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

One of the most distinguishing features of US securities regulation is strict enforcement of insider trading. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Insider Trading Via the Corporation (discussed on the Forum here ) by Jesse M.

Marketability 212

Marketability 212

Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Kauper Professor of Law, and Jeffery Y. Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. In March 2023, a financial panic that began with runs on Silicon Valley Bank in California led to three of the four largest bank failures in US history. Choi is the Paul G.

Banking 182

Banking Equity 182

Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Thomas (Vanderbilt University - Law School) , Robert B. Thompson (Georgetown University Law Center), and Harwell Wells (Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law), on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 Editor's Note: Randall S. Thomas is Professor of Law and John S. Beasley School of Law. Thompson is Peter P.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Jennings is an Associate Professor of Law at Emory University. This post is based on his recent article forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review. Normal 0 false false false EN-US ZH-CN AR-SA Each year, Department of Justice (DOJ) components resolve a handful of corporate criminal cases with subsidiary-only conviction (SOC) settlements.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 16, 2023

Kauper Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, and Alex Lee is Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. This post is based on their recent paper , forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review. Candidate at Yale University, Albert H. Choi is Paul G.

Corporate Finance 263

Corporate Finance Finance Technology Marketability 263

Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 2, 2023

Posted by Gad Weiss (Columbia Law School), on Thursday, March 2, 2023 Editor's Note: Gad Weiss is a J.S.D. Candidate at Columbia Law School. Many economies strive to create a US-like startup ecosystem and reproduce its success locally. This post is based on his recent paper. The United States is a striking example.

Market Capitalization 228

Market Capitalization Marketability Technology 228

Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Posted by Jonathan Barnett (USC Gould School of Law), on Monday, September 25, 2023 Editor's Note: Jonathan Barnett is a Professor of Law at USC Gould School of Law. This post is based on his recent paper forthcoming in the University of Chicago Business Law Review.

Technology 235

Technology Marketability 235

Law 360 M&A

JUNE 26, 2023

The 400 largest law firms in the U.S. saw continued growth last year, outpacing 2021's headcount additions, with surges in hiring among midsize firms accounting for a meaningful portion of the increases, according to the most recent Law360 ranking.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Uyeda, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 Tags: Clawbacks , Proxy season , SEC , SPACs Top 5 SEC Developments Posted by Haimavathi V.

Treasury 186

Treasury Banking Equity Marketability 186

Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 4, 2024

The Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School (HLS) is seeking applications from highly qualified candidates who are interested in working with the Program as Post-Doctoral or Doctoral Corporate Governance Fellows. law school, (ii) by the time they commence their fellowship, (ii) be pursuing an S.J.D. from a U.S.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Posted by Amanda Rose (Vanderbilt Law School), on Thursday, November 2, 2023 Editor's Note: Amanda M. Rose is Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law. This post is based on her article forthcoming in the Columbia Business Law Review. Strine, Jr.

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Financial Times M&A

JULY 30, 2023

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

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Harvard Corporate Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Posted by Ben Bates (Harvard Law School), on Monday, December 11, 2023 Editor's Note: Ben Bates is a Research Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance. This post is based on his recent paper. Strine, Jr.

Compliance 275

Compliance Equity 275

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 19, 2023

Turnage Professor of Law at Wake Forest University. Henson Professor of Law at Georgia State University. This post is based on their article , forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review. Fuse Brown (Georgia State University), on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Editor's Note: Mark A. Hall is the Fred D. and Elizabeth L.

Equity 249

Equity Marketability 249

Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 22, 2024

Posted by Matteo Tonello, The Conference Board, on Monday, January 22, 2024 Editor's Note: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Merel Spierings is Senior Researcher at The Conference Board ESG Center in New York. This post relates to a report authored by Ms.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Verret is an Associate Professor at George Mason Law School and is Counsel at Lawrence Law LLC. And just as the seasons regularly follow each other, these tweaks are inevitably followed by law firm legal memos that read the tea leaves in the latest memo to provide an update for corporate clients. Posted by J.W. more…).

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 13, 2023

Gözlügöl is an Advanced Researcher of the Cluster Law and Finance, Julian Greth is a Ph.D. Student and a Junior Researcher of the Cluster Law and Finance, and Tobias H. Similarly, private markets have seen eye-catching growth in recent years, while public markets appear to be withering both in the US and Europe.

Corporate Finance 239

Corporate Finance Marketability Finance 239

Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

Morrison Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law and David Berger is a Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE This is an Enron moment for university governance. This post is based on their recent paper.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes The Law and Economics of Equity Swap Disclosure (discussed on the Forum here ) by Lucian Bebchuk; The Law and Economics of Blockholder Disclosure (discussed on the Forum here ) by Lucian Bebchuk and Robert J. Steele are Partners at McDermott Will & Emery LLP.

Compliance 214

Compliance Equity Marketability 214

Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 26, 2023

Posted by Stephen Davis (Harvard Law School), and Konstantinos Sergakis (University of Glasgow), on Thursday, January 26, 2023 Editor's Note: Stephen M. Regulators have long been drawn into the vortex. Today they have converged on the same path, as first became clear in an under-reported October 2022 conference in Rome.

Marketability 259

Marketability 259

Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Posted by Scott Hirst (Boston University), on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Editor's Note: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Scott Hirst is Associate Professor of Law at Boston University. This post is based on an article recently published in the Journal of Corporation Law. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Scott Hirst.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This post is based on their Milbank memorandum and is part of the Delaware law series ; links to other posts in the series are available here. Normal 0 false false false EN-US EN-US AR-SA This is the price paid for allowing our hopes, rather than established law, to guide public merger agreement drafting for the last 18 years.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Posted by Jai Massari, Lightspark, on Tuesday, December 6, 2022 Editor's Note: Jai Massari is Cofounder and CLO of Lightspark and Visiting Lecturer at Berkeley Law. federal securities laws. federal securities laws? This post is based on her Lightspark piece. FTX’s collapse reiterates the need for comprehensive U.S.

Marketability 279

Marketability 279

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 24, 2023

These include a lack of adequate information about the firms they serve, coordination costs, limited familiarity with buyer country (US) accounting rules, laws, regulations, governance standards, and management practices, and language and cultural differences that can impede communication and coordination among board members.

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Financial Times M&A

APRIL 24, 2023

Slump in M&A volumes hits annual profits after what for many was a record 2021

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 27, 2022

Posted by Paolo Saguato (George Mason University), on Wednesday, July 27, 2022 Editor's Note: Paolo Saguato is Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School. This post is based on his recent article , published in the Ohio State Law Journal.

Marketability 249

Marketability 249

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 30, 2024

Posted by Beth George, Christine Lyon, and Pam Marcogliese, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Editor's Note: Beth George is a Partner, Christine Lyon is a Partner and Global Co-Head of Data Privacy and Security, and Pam Marcogliese is Head of US Transactions at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. George, Ms.

Technology 133

Technology 133

Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Posted by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, on Friday, September 29, 2023 Editor's Note: This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of September 22-28, 2023 Who are the new directors? Posted by Subodh Mishra, Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc.,

Equity 213

Equity Marketability 213

Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 23, 2022

Others, by contrast, including us in previous work , viewed the Statement as a PR move with little practical impact on stakeholders (the “PR Hypothesis”). This post is based on their forthcoming article. Which hypothesis best explains the BRT Statement? In a forthcoming article, Will Corporations Deliver Value to All Stakeholders?

Finance 261

Finance 261

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 13, 2023

The legislation mirrors anti-“industry boycott” legislation introduced or passed in other US states and provides more explicit rubrics of prohibited factors. The legislation mirrors anti-“industry boycott” legislation introduced or passed in other US states and provides more explicit rubrics of prohibited factors.

Finance 189

Finance 189

Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Posted by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, on Friday, September 23, 2022 Editor's Note: This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of September 16-22, 2022. Thomas (Vanderbilt University – Law School) , Robert B. What’s Next for US M&A.

Equity 226

Equity Technology 226