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Model Foundation Newsletter (Fall 2018) Oct 2018

Model Foundation Newsletter (Fall 2018)

Leo Model Foundation Government Service & Public Affairs Initiative Newsletter

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Model Foundation Newsletter (Spring 2018) Apr 2018

Model Foundation Newsletter (Spring 2018)

Leo Model Foundation Government Service & Public Affairs Initiative Newsletter

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The Modigliani-Miller Theorem At 60: The Long-Overlooked Legal Applications Of Finance’S Foundational Theorem, Michael S. Knoll Jan 2018

The Modigliani-Miller Theorem At 60: The Long-Overlooked Legal Applications Of Finance’S Foundational Theorem, Michael S. Knoll

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2018 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller’s The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance, and the Theory of Investment. Widely hailed as the foundation of modern finance, their article, which purports to demonstrate that a firm’s value is independent of its capital structure, is little known by lawyers, including legal academics. That is unfortunate because the Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevancy proposition (when inverted) provides a framework that can be extremely useful to legal academics, practicing attorneys and judges.