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The Go-Shop “Lure”: Go-Shop V. No-Shop In Merger And Acquisition In Public Company, Yilei Zhou Dr. Dec 2013

The Go-Shop “Lure”: Go-Shop V. No-Shop In Merger And Acquisition In Public Company, Yilei Zhou Dr.

Yilei Zhou Dr.

In March 2013, one of the world biggest PC retailers, Dell, announced its privatization plan, in which adopted the go-shop clause. Although used by many public companies in merger and acquisition, the go-shop clause in fact developed from Revlon duty, that board of director must act in good faith to maximize the shareholders’ interests in the deal. Generally speaking, since traditional no-shop clause without “fiduciary out” provision in merger agreement conflict with board’s Revlon duty, consequently, if running successfully, the go-shop clause is the best tool for shareholders to maximize their interests. However, court imputes many restrictions on the board …


The Virtue In Bankruptcy, Matthew Adam Bruckner Nov 2013

The Virtue In Bankruptcy, Matthew Adam Bruckner

Matthew Adam Bruckner

In response to a gap in the corporate bankruptcy literature, this Article offers a new positive theory of corporate bankruptcy law based on virtue ethics. The dominant theory of corporate bankruptcy law—the creditors’ bargain model—is necessarily incomplete because it does not account for bankruptcy courts’ equitable and discretionary powers, or for bankruptcy courts’ need to consider decision-making criteria other than economic efficiency. By contrast, virtue ethics offers insights about these features of corporate bankruptcy law for at least three reasons. First, bankruptcy courts appear to give content to bankruptcy laws by using virtue ethical principles. Second, virtue ethics’ decision-making process—practical …


What Do We Worry About When We Worry About Price Discrimination? The Law And Ethics Of Using Personal Information For Pricing, Akiva A. Miller Nov 2013

What Do We Worry About When We Worry About Price Discrimination? The Law And Ethics Of Using Personal Information For Pricing, Akiva A. Miller

Akiva A Miller

New information technologies have dramatically increased sellers’ ability to engage in retail price discrimination. Debates over using personal information for price discrimination frequently treat it as a single problem, and are not sufficiently sensitive to the variety of price discrimination practices, the different kinds of information they require in order to succeed, and the different ethical concerns they raise. This paper explores the ethical and legal debate over regulating price discrimination facilitated by consumers’ personal information. Various kinds of “privacy remedies”—self-regulation, technological fixes, state regulation, and legislating private causes of legal action—each have their place. By drawing distinctions between various …


Asociacionismo Y Teoría De Los Actos Propios, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Nov 2013

Asociacionismo Y Teoría De Los Actos Propios, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.


El Renacimiento Del Gobierno Corporativo, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Nov 2013

El Renacimiento Del Gobierno Corporativo, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.


Altísima Especialización Más Atención Personalizada, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Nov 2013

Altísima Especialización Más Atención Personalizada, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.


El Forward Desde La Perspectiva De Las Cajas Municipales De Ahorro Y Crédito, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Nov 2013

El Forward Desde La Perspectiva De Las Cajas Municipales De Ahorro Y Crédito, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.


Corruption, Constitutions And Crude In Latin America, Fredrick V. Perry, Scheherazade S. Rehman Oct 2013

Corruption, Constitutions And Crude In Latin America, Fredrick V. Perry, Scheherazade S. Rehman

Fredrick V. Perry

This paper examines the perception of corruption that exists throughout Latin America, and analyses the importance of the institutional environment in Latin American countries, which are both richly endowed with and dependent on oil and natural gas. First, we look at corruption generally in the region and then carry our analysis by looking at various countries’ GDP per capita versus several indices measuring different dimensions of countries’ economic development, political progress, and social performance. We also combine corruption indices and separate them by typology of corruption in order to investigate the particular facets of corruption that pose the greatest impediment …


E-Commerce And Electronic Payment System Risks: Lessons From Paypal, Lawrence J. Trautman Oct 2013

E-Commerce And Electronic Payment System Risks: Lessons From Paypal, Lawrence J. Trautman

Lawrence J. Trautman Sr.

What are the major risks perceived by those engaged in e-commerce and electronic payment systems? What development risks, if they become reality, may cause substantial increases in operating costs or threaten the very survival of the enterprise? This article utilizes the relevant annual report disclosures from eBay (parent of PayPal), along with other eBay and PayPal documents, as a potentially powerful teaching device. Most of the descriptive language to follow is excerpted directly from eBay’s regulatory filings. My additions include weaving these materials into a logical presentation and providing supplemental sources for those who desire a deeper look (usually in …


Should The Commercial Landlord Have A Duty To Mitigate Damages After The Tenant Abandons?: A Legal And Economic Analysis, David Crump Oct 2013

Should The Commercial Landlord Have A Duty To Mitigate Damages After The Tenant Abandons?: A Legal And Economic Analysis, David Crump

David Crump

When a commercial tenant abandons the premises, the landlord’s costs continue. Does the landlord, then, have the burden of mitigating damages for a suit against the tenant? Two different rules apply in different states. Some states, including Pennsylvania, put the burden of mitigation on the breaching party: the commercial tenant. Other states, however, put the burden entirely on the non-breaching party: the landlord. Texas follows this latter approach, placing the burden solely on the innocent party and not on the breaching party. The Texas rule, which puts the burden of mitigation on the non-breaching commercial landlord, has serious disadvantages. First, …


Flawed Transparency: Shared Data Collection And Disclosure Challenges For Google Glass And Similar Technologies, Jonathan I. Ezor Oct 2013

Flawed Transparency: Shared Data Collection And Disclosure Challenges For Google Glass And Similar Technologies, Jonathan I. Ezor

Jonathan I. Ezor

Current privacy law and best practices assume that the party collecting the data is able to describe and disclose its practices to those from and about whom the data are collected. With emerging technologies such as Google Glass, the information being collected by the wearer may be automatically shared to one or more third parties whose use may be substantially different from that of the wearer. Often, the wearer may not even know what information is being uploaded, and how it may be used. This paper will analyze the current state of U.S. law and compliance regarding personal information collection …


Community Supported Agriculture And Community Labor: Constructing A New Model To Unite Volunteers And Employers, A. Bryan Endres, Rachel Armstrong Sep 2013

Community Supported Agriculture And Community Labor: Constructing A New Model To Unite Volunteers And Employers, A. Bryan Endres, Rachel Armstrong

A. Bryan Endres

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a farm philosophy and marketing strategy that creates a union between consumers and farmers. Extending beyond the traditional buyer-seller relationship, CSA farmers invite customers to participate in food production in a variety of scenarios the authors refer to as “community labor.” But community labor entails a serious paradox. Traditional employment law doctrine envisions autonomous competition between laborer and employer, and makes little room for these novel, community-based relationships. More importantly, rigid application of employment law structures undermines many of the values embedded in the CSA movement and may limit its continued viability and growth. Constructed …


El Registro De Marca, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Sep 2013

El Registro De Marca, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.


Junta General De Accionistas : Preguntas Y Respuestas, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Sep 2013

Junta General De Accionistas : Preguntas Y Respuestas, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.


Las Juntas Cuasiuniversales, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Sep 2013

Las Juntas Cuasiuniversales, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.


Contratación Inmobiliaria: Mitos Y Verdades, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Sep 2013

Contratación Inmobiliaria: Mitos Y Verdades, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.


Régimen De Ofertas Públicas Y De Declaración Unilateral De Adquisición En La Nueva Ley De Mercado De Capitales, Gaston Mirkin Aug 2013

Régimen De Ofertas Públicas Y De Declaración Unilateral De Adquisición En La Nueva Ley De Mercado De Capitales, Gaston Mirkin

Gaston Mirkin

No abstract provided.


Too Complex To Perceive?: Drafting Cash Distribution Waterfalls Directly As Code To Reduce Complexity And Legal Risk In Structured Finance, Master Limited Partnership, And Private Equity Transactions, Ralph Carter Mayrell Aug 2013

Too Complex To Perceive?: Drafting Cash Distribution Waterfalls Directly As Code To Reduce Complexity And Legal Risk In Structured Finance, Master Limited Partnership, And Private Equity Transactions, Ralph Carter Mayrell

Ralph Carter Mayrell

The intricate procedural and data-driven decision trees that play a critical role in complex financial contracts like cash distribution waterfalls in structured finance agreement indentures (e.g., collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)), master limited partnership agreements, and private equity fund agreements are inefficiently depicted as written contracts. As Professor Henry Hu explains in Too Complex to Depict?, the difficulty of translation—or depiction—between original mathematical models, plain English prospectuses, legal contracts, and programmed execution means that often the written depictions that form the basis of disclosures do not accurately define the act of execution. To overcome this, the SEC proposed an amendment to …


Show Me The Note Q&A, David J. Reiss, Bradley T. Borden Aug 2013

Show Me The Note Q&A, David J. Reiss, Bradley T. Borden

David J Reiss

This is a Q&A relating to an article, Show Me The Note, available at http://works.bepress.com/david_reiss/63/.

"Show Me The Note" refers to a defense that seeks to forestall or prevent foreclosure by requiring the foreclosing party to produce the mortgage and the associated promissory note as proof of its right to initiate foreclosure.


The Underutilized Foreign Investor, Griffin Weaver Aug 2013

The Underutilized Foreign Investor, Griffin Weaver

Griffin Weaver

For most states, if not all, the push for economic advancement is at the front of every administration’s agenda. This is especially true for developing countries in the Middle East whose standard of living and international power is largely tied to its economic condition. An important indicator, if not condition, of a state’s economic health is the level of foreign direct investment (FDI) received by the state. This inflow of money is essential for the growth and stability of a state’s economy. As one U.S. official once noted, the United States “need[s] a net inflow of capital of $3 billion …


Incorporation By Reference In Maritime Arbitration, Arjya B. Majumdar Aug 2013

Incorporation By Reference In Maritime Arbitration, Arjya B. Majumdar

Arjya B Majumdar

This paper deals with maritime arbitration in general and in particular, the applicability of arbitration clauses in charterparties incorporated by reference into bills of lading. Following a discussion on the origin of maritime arbitration we see how dispute resolution in the shipping industry had initially been associated with informal procedures involving little or no dependence upon courts and other systems of formal dispute resolution methods, thus bringing about a special nexus between the maritime industry and non-judicial methods of dispute resolution- such as arbitration.

One of the key requirements of an arbitration to take place is that the arbitration agreement …


La Responsabilidad De Los Directores De Las Sociedades Anónimas. Análisis De Gobierno Corporativo, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Aug 2013

La Responsabilidad De Los Directores De Las Sociedades Anónimas. Análisis De Gobierno Corporativo, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.


Book Review: The Three And A Half Minute Transaction: What Sticky Boilerplate Reveals About Contract Law And Practice, Andrea J. Boyack Jul 2013

Book Review: The Three And A Half Minute Transaction: What Sticky Boilerplate Reveals About Contract Law And Practice, Andrea J. Boyack

Andrea J Boyack

This review situates Gulati & Scott’s findings with respect to sovereign debt instruments and the contracting process in the context of a legal profession on the brink of change. Gulati and Scott’s book addresses the inexplicable failure of lawyers to respond to a sovereign debt litigation outcome by clarifying a boilerplate provision after an adverse judicial interpretation. Their fascinating study of boilerplate in sophisticated transactional legal practice is timely and compelling both in terms of the specific story it tells, namely the persistence of the pari passu clause in sovereign debt instruments, as well as its broader implications: Structural flaws …


The Underutilized Foreign Investor, Griffin Weaver Jul 2013

The Underutilized Foreign Investor, Griffin Weaver

Griffin Weaver

No abstract provided.


Present At The Creation: Reflections On The Early Years Of The National Association Of Corporate Directors, Lawrence J. Trautman Jul 2013

Present At The Creation: Reflections On The Early Years Of The National Association Of Corporate Directors, Lawrence J. Trautman

Lawrence J. Trautman Sr.

Effective corporate governance is critical to the productive operation of the global economy and preservation of our way of life. Excellent governance execution is also required to achieve economic growth and robust job creation in any country. In the United States, the premier director membership organization is the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). Now over 36 years old, NACD plays a major role in fostering excellence in corporate governance in the United States and beyond. Over the past thirty-six years NACD has grown from a mere realization of the importance of corporate governance to become the only national membership …


Incongruencias En La Ley De Competencia: Un Analisis Al Artículo 3 Y Al Literal F Del Artículo 10.2., John Pineda Galarza Jul 2013

Incongruencias En La Ley De Competencia: Un Analisis Al Artículo 3 Y Al Literal F Del Artículo 10.2., John Pineda Galarza

John Pineda Galarza

El presente artículo tiene por finalidad analizar dos incongruencias en la ley de competencia. La primera, es la referida al artículo 3 el cual podría significar un peligro para la actual economía peruana y atentar con el sistema de competencia por las diversas interpretaciones atribuibles a este. La segunda es la referida al literal f del artículo 10.2 referido al abuso de remedios legales como un tipo de abuso de posición de dominio. No obstante, estos casos deberían ser recogidos por la cláusula general del Decreto Legislativo 1044 como actos de indebido ataque procesal, siendo competente para ello la Comisión …


How To Create American Manufacturing Jobs, John D. Gleissner Esquire Jul 2013

How To Create American Manufacturing Jobs, John D. Gleissner Esquire

John D Gleissner Esquire

No abstract provided.


Las Facultades De Administración Del Gerente General, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Jul 2013

Las Facultades De Administración Del Gerente General, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.


Consumers As Marketers: An Analysis Of The Facebook “Like” Feature As An Endorsement, Chang Zhou Jun 2013

Consumers As Marketers: An Analysis Of The Facebook “Like” Feature As An Endorsement, Chang Zhou

Chang Zhou

No abstract provided.


Condiciones Para El Ejercicio De La Acción Causal, Pablo A. Legón Jun 2013

Condiciones Para El Ejercicio De La Acción Causal, Pablo A. Legón

Pablo A Legón

Breve repaso sobre la caracterización de la acción causal y sus condiciones de procedencia para la letra de cambio, el pagaré y el cheque