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Selected Current Developments In Subchapter C, Donald V. Moorehead

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

No abstract provided.

Interest Free Loans, Waller H. Horsley

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

No abstract provided.

Death Or Retirement Of A Partner, Stefan F. Tucker

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

No abstract provided.

Cafeteria Plans In Transition, Leon E. Irish

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

No abstract provided.

Schreiber V. Burlington Northern, Inc., Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.

Landreth Timber Co. V. Landreth, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.

0401: Anonymous Memoranda Book, 1913, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Pocahontas county, W.Va. lists of jurors, tax notations, expenses, and memoranda concerning legal matters.

The Economics And Jurisprudence Of Convertible Bonds, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

Professor Bratton examines judicial regulation of issuer-bondholder conflicts of interest within three different, but closely related doctrinal frameworks: neoclassical contract interpretation; contract avoidance; and corporate law fiduciary restraint. After discussing the elements of convertible bond valuation and their interaction with issuer actions giving rise to conflicts of interest, he evaluates the case for judicial intervention to protect bondholder interests. He concludes that ·bondholder protective intervention is fair and tolerably efficient, provided it is kept within the bounds of contract interpretation. But he finds that more aggressive judicial intervention under the frameworks of contract avoidance and fiduciary restraint carries an unnecessary …

Value Creation By Business Lawyers: Legal Skills And Asset Pricing, Ronald J. Gilson

Faculty Scholarship

What do business lawyers really do? Embarrassingly enough, at a time when lawyers are criticized with increasing frequency as nonproductive actors in the economy, there seems to be no coherent answer. That is not, of course, to say that answers have not been offered; there are a number of familiar responses that we have all heard or, what is worse, that we have all offered at one time or another without really thinking very hard about them. The problem is that, for surprisingly similar reasons, none of them is very helpful.

Regulating The Market For Corporate Control: A Critical Assessment Of The Tender Offer's Role In Corporate Governance, John C. Coffee Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

Better answers often await better questions. In the wake of a recent series of provocative articles dealing with contested tender offers, several questions have been vigorously debated:

(1) Should management of the target company be allowed to resist a hostile tender offer in order to remain an independent company? Which, if any, of the various "shark repellent" measures by which a potential target can make itself unattractive to a bidder are justified?;

(2) If defensive tactics were generally forbidden, should the target company's management still be permitted to encourage competing bids thereby creating an auction?; and

(3) Do hostile takeovers …

Courtroom Closure During Suppression Hearings And More, Randolph N. Jonakait

Other Publications

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Small High Technology Companies And Public Policy: A Legal Analysis, Werner W. Mielke

LLM Theses and Essays

This study analyzes the legal side of the public policy regarding high technology companies. It examines the role of small high technology firms in the national economy. The needs and problems of these firms are analyzed and categorized in order to have an analytical framework in which to examine their relationship with the prevailing legal environment. Finally, on the basis of selected laws and regulations, legal barriers and disincentives and the way to reduce them are examined as well as legal provisions intended to provide incentives and assistance.

Comments On 'Tax Neutrality Between Equity Capital And Debt', Douglas A. Kahn

Articles

Professor Andrews' proposals are aimed at eliminating a tax bias that affects a corporation's choice of a method of raising additional capital. Professor Andrews believes that the current tax system favors a corporation which raises capital internally by accumulating its income (or by borrowing) rather than by issuing stock. Professor Andrews seeks a neutral system that permits the choice of the manner in which capital is raised to be made on economic grounds without influence of the tax laws.

Fair Dealing Comes Of Age In The Regulation Of Going Private Transactions, Carole Silver

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The Business Judgement Rule, Tamar Frankel

Faculty Scholarship

Symposium: Current Issues in Corporate Governance: Conference Panel Discussion

Prof. Kozyris: Our discussion today will focus on the so-called "business judgment rule," a judicially developed law concept that the business decisions of corporate management should not be second-guessed by the courts. The courts will not interfere with such decisions as they are being made and carried out, nor will they impose liability on management if it turns out that the decisions were wrong.

The Interpretation Of Contracts Governing Corporate Debt Relationships, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.