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Regulating Offshore Finance, William J. Moon
Regulating Offshore Finance, William J. Moon
Faculty Scholarship
From the Panama Papers to the Paradise Papers, massive document leaks in recent years have exposed trillions of dollars hidden in small offshore jurisdictions. Attracting foreign capital with low tax rates and environments of secrecy, a growing number of offshore jurisdictions have emerged as major financial havens hosting thousands of hedge funds, trusts, banks, and insurance companies.
While the prevailing account has examined offshore financial havens as “tax havens” that facilitate the evasion or avoidance of domestic tax, this Article uncovers how offshore jurisdictions enable corporations to evade domestic regulatory law. Specifically, recent U.S. Supreme Court cases restricting the geographic …
Enforcing Corporate Fiduciary Duties In Bankruptcy, Kelli A. Alces
Enforcing Corporate Fiduciary Duties In Bankruptcy, Kelli A. Alces
Scholarly Publications
No abstract provided.
Moving Toward A Federal Law Of Corporate Governance In Bankruptcy, Kelli A. Alces
Moving Toward A Federal Law Of Corporate Governance In Bankruptcy, Kelli A. Alces
Scholarly Publications
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Bankruptcy Reorganization: Legal Dynamics Associated With Economic Discontinuity, Young Rock Noh
Bankruptcy Reorganization: Legal Dynamics Associated With Economic Discontinuity, Young Rock Noh
LLM Theses and Essays
This thesis attempts to discover the factors leading to such failures and to propose a cure. It argues that the basic structure of Chapter 11 of the Code, the debtor in possession structure, is one of the essential factors causing such a high rate of failure. The thesis further asserts that it is possible to reduce the rate of unsuccessful reorganization if the bankruptcy court exercises its power of case management more actively and expeditiously. For example, the court can screen the debtors' filing for relief before the reorganization case proceeds too far. Chapter II of this thesis examines the …