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Cornerstone Investors And Initial Public Offerings On The Stock Exchange Of Hong Kong, Chee Keong Low Jan 2009

Cornerstone Investors And Initial Public Offerings On The Stock Exchange Of Hong Kong, Chee Keong Low

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.


Responding To The Subprime Mess: The New Regulatory Landscape, David Schmudde Jan 2009

Responding To The Subprime Mess: The New Regulatory Landscape, David Schmudde

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.


Don't Cry For Me Argentina: Economic Crises And The Restructuring Of Financial Property, Horacio Spector Jan 2009

Don't Cry For Me Argentina: Economic Crises And The Restructuring Of Financial Property, Horacio Spector

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.


D&O Insurance In Bankruptcy: Just Another Business Contract, Elina Chechelnitsky Jan 2009

D&O Insurance In Bankruptcy: Just Another Business Contract, Elina Chechelnitsky

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.


The Crumbled Difference Between Legal And Illegal Arbitration Awards: Hall Street Associates And The Waning Public Policy Exception, Jonathan A. Marcantel Jan 2009

The Crumbled Difference Between Legal And Illegal Arbitration Awards: Hall Street Associates And The Waning Public Policy Exception, Jonathan A. Marcantel

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.


Eat Your Vegetables (Or At Least Understand Why You Should): Can Better Warning And Education Of Prospective Minority Owners Reduce Oppression In Closely Held Businesses?, Michael K. Molitor Jan 2009

Eat Your Vegetables (Or At Least Understand Why You Should): Can Better Warning And Education Of Prospective Minority Owners Reduce Oppression In Closely Held Businesses?, Michael K. Molitor

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.


Securities Fraud, Officer And Director Bars, And The "Unfitness" Inquiry After Sarbanes-Oxley, Jon Carlson Jan 2009

Securities Fraud, Officer And Director Bars, And The "Unfitness" Inquiry After Sarbanes-Oxley, Jon Carlson

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.


Covered Bonds: Shelter From Financial Turmoil, Exposure To The 1940 Act, Steve Flantsbaum Jan 2009

Covered Bonds: Shelter From Financial Turmoil, Exposure To The 1940 Act, Steve Flantsbaum

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.


Shareholder Opportunism In A World Of Risky Debt , Richard Squire Jan 2009

Shareholder Opportunism In A World Of Risky Debt , Richard Squire

Faculty Scholarship

Modern finance is increasingly dominated by derivatives and similar contracts that create contingent debts, which become payable only upon the occurrence of an uncertain future event. This Article identifies a pervasive opportunism hazard created by contingent debt that lawmakers and scholars have overlooked. If liability on a firm's contingent debt is especially likely to be triggered when the firm is insolvent, the contract that creates the debt transfers wealth from the firm's creditors to its shareholders. A firm therefore has incentive to engage in correlation-seeking - that is, to incur contingent debts that correlate, or that through asset purchases can …