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The Problematic Forgotten Buyback, Yesha Yadav
The Problematic Forgotten Buyback, Yesha Yadav
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Totaling in excess of $100 billion dollars in transactions annually, debt buybacks allow a company to repurchase bonds from investors, rewriting bargains and stripping away creditor control rights in the process. This Article shows that regulation systematically underprotects bondholders in the context of debt buybacks. It makes three points. First, bondholders confront information asymmetries that enable issuers to buy back creditor claims cheaply. Regulation imposes near negligible requirements on issuers to disclose information about the transaction. Lacking fiduciary protection, bondholder interests are vulnerable to being extinguished by issuers in the interests of promoting those of shareholders and managers. Second, buybacks …
Entry Restriction, Shadow Banking, And The Structure Of Monetary Institutions, Morgan Ricks
Entry Restriction, Shadow Banking, And The Structure Of Monetary Institutions, Morgan Ricks
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Entry restriction has a noble pedigree in banking law. Soon after the founding of the Bank of England in 1694, Parliament forbade all other business entities apart from small partnerships from issuing bank notes and their equivalents. Subsequent acts of Parliament confirmed that the object of the prohibition was to give the Bank of England the ‘privilege or power’ of ‘exclusive banking’. In the USA, similar prohibitions, called ‘restraining acts’, were established at the state level in the early nineteenth century. Later, when Congress established the national banking system in the early 1860s, it prohibited (through the device of punitive …