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The Second Circuit's Role In Expanding The Sec's Jurisdiction Abroad, Roberta S. Karmel Jul 1991

The Second Circuit's Role In Expanding The Sec's Jurisdiction Abroad, Roberta S. Karmel

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Greenmail, The Control Premium And Shareholder Duty, Roberta S. Karmel Jul 1991

Greenmail, The Control Premium And Shareholder Duty, Roberta S. Karmel

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The Second Circuit's Role In Expanding The Sec's Jurisdiction Abroad, Roberta S. Karmel Jul 1991

The Second Circuit's Role In Expanding The Sec's Jurisdiction Abroad, Roberta S. Karmel

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International Securities Regulation: London's "Big Bang" And The European Securities Markets, Roberta S. Karmel May 1991

International Securities Regulation: London's "Big Bang" And The European Securities Markets, Roberta S. Karmel

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The Brooklyn Law School -- New York Stock Exchange, Inc. Breakfast Roundtables, Roberta S. Karmel Jan 1991

The Brooklyn Law School -- New York Stock Exchange, Inc. Breakfast Roundtables, Roberta S. Karmel

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Liquidity Versus Control: The Institutional Investor As Corporate Monitor, John C. Coffee Jr. Jan 1991

Liquidity Versus Control: The Institutional Investor As Corporate Monitor, John C. Coffee Jr.

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Within academia, paradigm shifts occur regularly, some more important than others. As the takeover wave of the 1980s ebbs, a significant shift now appears to be in progress in the way the public corporation is understood. Above all, the new thinking emphasizes that political forces shaped the modern corporation. While the old paradigm saw the structure of the corporation as the product of a Darwinian competition in which the most efficient design emerged victorious, this new perspective sees political forces as constraining that evolutionary process and possibly foreclosing the adoption of a superior organizational form. Thus, my colleague Professor Mark …


Itsfea's Effect On Either An Implied Cause Of Action For Damages By Contemporaneous Traders Or An Action For Damages Or Rescission By The Party In Privity With The Inside Trader, William K.S. Wang Jan 1991

Itsfea's Effect On Either An Implied Cause Of Action For Damages By Contemporaneous Traders Or An Action For Damages Or Rescission By The Party In Privity With The Inside Trader, William K.S. Wang

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Reinventing The Outside Director: An Agenda For Institutional Investors, Ronald J. Gilson, Reinier Kraakman Jan 1991

Reinventing The Outside Director: An Agenda For Institutional Investors, Ronald J. Gilson, Reinier Kraakman

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Managerialist rhetoric puts the institutional investor between a rock and a hard place. The institutional investor is depicted as a paper colossus, alternatively greedy and mindless, but in all events a less important corporate constituency than that other kind of investor, the "real" shareholder. The unspoken corollary is that, regardless of the institution's investment strategy, its interests may appropriately be ignored.

An institution that trades stock frequently is considered a short-term shareholder without a stake in the future of the corporation. According to the familiar argument, the short-term shareholder has no more legitimate claim on management's attention than does a …


Bondholder Coercion: The Problem Of Constrained Choice In Debt Tender Offers And Recapitalizations, John C. Coffee Jr., William A. Klein Jan 1991

Bondholder Coercion: The Problem Of Constrained Choice In Debt Tender Offers And Recapitalizations, John C. Coffee Jr., William A. Klein

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The past decade saw the flourishing of risky, high-yield corporate debt, often called "junk" bonds. Too many companies took on too much debt, and the chickens are now coming home to roost as these bonds have begun to default with increasing frequency.The magnitude of the problem is potentially enormous; by one estimate, $318 billion of debt has either defaulted already or trades at yields indicating the market's skepticism that it will be repaid on maturity.

Facing the prospect of default, corporate issuers are seeking to restructure or recapitalize their financial structures at a correspondingly increased pace. The market force driving …