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The Underwriter's Duty Of "Due Diligence" Under Section 11 Of The Securities Act: Reflections On Barchris, Theodore W. Lenz

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Securities Act of 1933 seeks to protect the investing public by putting into the hands of the potential securities purchaser information upon which he can base an enlightened investing choice. The participants in a public distribution of securities--including the underwriters are required to collect, accurately and completely in a registration statement and an accompanying prospectus, the relevant facts about the company issuing the securities. Failure to do so will render the participants liable under section 11 of the Act. The Act then imposes a duty of care on the underwriter and enforces that duty by the threat of civil …

Headnotes, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

On April 4, 1969, the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and the Vanderbilt International Law Society held a Conference on Legal Problems of International Capital Formation. The Symposium appearing in this issue of the International directly results from this Conference.

Manuel F. Cohen, former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, begins the Symposium with a brief overview of the development of international securities markets in Europe. Mark S. Massel then suggests the questions a businessman or lawyer should ask before making foreign investment. Lester Nurick shows how international organizations, especially the World Bank, join with private parties in …

Securities Regulation In Selected European Countries, Mitchell Brock

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

In approaching the subject of securities regulation in selected European countries, I will not attempt to provide a detailed description of the existing arrangements in the principal European countries. I shall of course to some degree descend to the "nitty gritty" of concrete details to give to airy generalizations a local reality, but my principal objective will be to discuss the economic context, the structure of the capital markets in which the regulatory authorities are performing their functions.

This economic context is pertinent to an understanding of why the pattern of regulation differs in many respects from that existing in …

International Security Markets, Robert L. Knauss

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

I would like to concentrate on what we might call the international aspects of the European securities markets and, if nothing else, to define a couple of terms. What I want to do first is to look at the question of integration of capital markets, and what we mean by that term. Is it really easier for a French company to raise capital in Belgium than a company from the United States? Has there been any integration in the Common Market? Do foreign issuers raise capital on national securities markets in the currency of that market? I think we have …