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Introduction (Symposium: Mutual Fund Regulation In The Next Millennium), Jeffrey J. Haas
Introduction (Symposium: Mutual Fund Regulation In The Next Millennium), Jeffrey J. Haas
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Deconstructing Section 11: Public Offering Liability In A Continuous Disclosure Environment, Donald C. Langevoort
Deconstructing Section 11: Public Offering Liability In A Continuous Disclosure Environment, Donald C. Langevoort
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This article is an effort to rethink civil liability in capital-raising transactions by large capitalization issuers. After a brief digression about who should set liability standards, the article then addresses two related questions. The first deals with a natural question: Should not the primary regulatory effort for large issuers be to assure continuous disclosure in the secondary marketplace, given the far larger volume of such trading in that market compared to that in primary transactions? Second, if we have developed a satisfactory regime of disclosure responsibilities for this setting, what more, if anything, in terms of liability protection, is needed …