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Defensive Responses To Tender Offers And The Williams Act's Prohibition Against Manipulation, Elliott J. Weiss
Defensive Responses To Tender Offers And The Williams Act's Prohibition Against Manipulation, Elliott J. Weiss
Vanderbilt Law Review
This Article discusses whether arrangements designed to ensure the success of a favored bidder or simply to defeat an unwanted tender offer are "manipulative acts or practices" barred by section 14(e).' It argues that the critical issue is whether an arrangement significantly obstructs the operation of a fair auction market for a target company's shares. The Article maintains that recent Supreme Court decisions interpreting section 14(e) and other antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws provide substantial support for this approach to interpreting section 14(e). The Article first discusses the definition of section 14(e) manipulation. The recent Marathon decision provides …
Foreign Exchange Sales And The Law Of Contracts: A Case For Analogy To The Uniform Commercial Code, Michael L. Manire
Foreign Exchange Sales And The Law Of Contracts: A Case For Analogy To The Uniform Commercial Code, Michael L. Manire
Vanderbilt Law Review
The purpose of this Note is not only to benefit lawyers and judges who must confront these problems in litigation, but also to provide participants in the foreign exchange market with both an understanding of the legal significance of their procedures for making foreign exchange contracts and an appreciation of the possible legal consequences of the mistakes that inevitably result from fol-lowing these procedures.
The Economics Of Corporation Law And Securities Regulation, Larry E. Ribstein, C. Paul Rogers
The Economics Of Corporation Law And Securities Regulation, Larry E. Ribstein, C. Paul Rogers
Vanderbilt Law Review
To evaluate this book as a teaching tool one must consider several questions. First, of what value is an economic analysis of law? Second, should one consider economics in a corporations or securities law course? Third, does this book offer a worthwhile approach to bringing economics into the corporate law curriculum? Last, how well has this approach been executed in the book? It may be a bit late to ponder the value of an economic analysis of the law. Economic legal theorists are both extending and deepening the thinking about economics' role in facilitating an understanding of law. This new …