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Lawyers' Value In Mergers And Acquisitions Under The New World Of Multidisciplinary Practices, Yunling Wu
Lawyers' Value In Mergers And Acquisitions Under The New World Of Multidisciplinary Practices, Yunling Wu
LLM Theses and Essays
Lawyers are facing strong competition from accounting firms in mergers and acquisitions. Finance and accounting globalization and multidisciplinary practice makes accounting firms more competent, challenging lawyers’ value. However, lawyers create enormous value in mergers and acquisitions, such as structuring the form of transactions, managing due diligence investigation, reducing the costs of acquiring and verifying information, ensuring corporations follow the relevant regulations preventing legal liabilities, and preventing antitrust issues or invoking antitrust challenge. Teamwork will facilitate mergers and acquisitions transactions. Restricted multidisciplinary practice will not affect lawyers’ and accountants’ ethics and independence. Legal education should be improved to help lawyers become …
The Intra-Enterprise Conspiracy Doctrine As Applied To Affiliated Corporations Under Section 1 Of The Sherman Act, Michael B. Menz
The Intra-Enterprise Conspiracy Doctrine As Applied To Affiliated Corporations Under Section 1 Of The Sherman Act, Michael B. Menz
LLM Theses and Essays
The thesis revisits antitrust law’s intra-enterprise conspiracy doctrine in the context of affiliated corporations. After an analysis of the doctrine, its tension with the inevitable cooperation in a corporate group, and the reasons for its rejection in a limited setting by the Supreme Court, the paper goes on to explore the groundings for a broader solution. It clarifies how far the lower courts have extended the Supreme Court’s rationale and suggests a consistent standard as to when corporate groups form a single economic unit for purposes of section 1 of the Sherman Act. According to this standard, courts should assess …