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The Collapse Of An Empire? Rating Agency Reform In The Wake Of The 2007 Financial Crisis, Elizabeth Devine
The Collapse Of An Empire? Rating Agency Reform In The Wake Of The 2007 Financial Crisis, Elizabeth Devine
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
In 1996, Thomas Friedman’s remarks echoed the sentiments of many. The rating agency business was booming, and it seemed like the agencies themselves could do no wrong.
Lessons For Competition Law From The Economic Crisis: The Prospect For Antitrust Responses To The “Too-Big-To-Fail” Phenomenon, Jesse W. W. Markham, Jr.
Lessons For Competition Law From The Economic Crisis: The Prospect For Antitrust Responses To The “Too-Big-To-Fail” Phenomenon, Jesse W. W. Markham, Jr.
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
This article examines whether, and the extent to which, antitrust law could contribute to a broader regulatory effort to control the too-big-to-fail problem. The article begins by exploring the nature of the problem. Against this backdrop, it considers antitrust policy and rules to evaluate whether antitrust might play a meaningful role. The article concludes that antitrust law, if vigorously enforced with an emphasis on avoiding too-big-to-fail problems, can be a useful public policy tool to address the problem. However, it can come nowhere near solving it or preventing recurrences of recent systemic failures.
Deconstructing Corporate Governance: Director Primacy Without Principle?, René Reich-Graefe
Deconstructing Corporate Governance: Director Primacy Without Principle?, René Reich-Graefe
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
For almost eighty years now, corporate law scholarship has centered around two elementary analytical findings made in what has once been described as the “last major work of original scholarship”within the field.
Revisiting The Inadvertent Investment Company, Brian Vito
Revisiting The Inadvertent Investment Company, Brian Vito
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
While the topic of financial regulation has recently experienced a resurgence in interest, one area that historically has received little attention and continues to exist in relative obscurity is the application of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Company Act”) to commodity pools, as opposed to mutual funds, hedge funds and private equity funds. The purpose of this article is to distinguish the boundary between an investment company, as that term is defined in the Company Act, and a commodity pool, as the term is used to refer to an investment pool not within the auspices of the Company …
323 Non-Managing Underwriters’ Role In Securities Offerings: Just Eye Candy?, Elena Marty-Nelson
323 Non-Managing Underwriters’ Role In Securities Offerings: Just Eye Candy?, Elena Marty-Nelson
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
While there is considerable scholarship on the due diligence defense of lead underwriters in defective corporate securities offerings, there is surprisingly little analysis of the due diligence defense of non-managing underwriters. This article challenges the common perception that lead and non-managing underwriters necessarily “sink or swim” together for purposes of due diligence. An analysis of the statutory structure of Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933 reveals that non-managing underwriters are not inextricably tethered to the lead. Rather, non-managing underwriters who actively question the lead’s due diligence investigation should be able to meet their own affirmative defense even when …