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Fiduciary Duties Of Directors In The Context Of Going-Private Transactions To The Minority Shareholders Under Delaware Law, Yuan Wang
LLM Theses and Essays
This thesis discusses the different fiduciary duties and standards of review imposed by Delaware laws on the directors to the minority shareholders in the going-private transactions structured either as a merger or as a tender offer voluntarily initiated by the controlling In the context of a merger, the disinterested and independent directors will face a duty of care and be subject to the business judgment rule. For the interested or dependent directors, they will bear a duty of loyalty and be bound to the entire fairness standard accordingly. In the case of a tender offer, currently the Delaware courts impose …
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act And Fiduciary Duties, Lyman P. Q. Johnson, Mark A. Sides
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act And Fiduciary Duties, Lyman P. Q. Johnson, Mark A. Sides
Scholarly Articles
This article explores the implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 for fiduciary duty analysis in corporate law. The article examines those provisions of the Act, and recent SEC, NYSE and NASDAQ rules, that most pointedly bear on corporate governance. The article develops in detail exactly how Sarbanes-Oxley and those rules may alter state fiduciary duty law. Sarbanes-Oxley makes unprecedented federal inroads into the area of corporate governance and, although the fact of federal incursion into corporate governance is important in its own right, the more intriguing issue concerns the eventual interplay between federal and state law. Specifically, on various …
In Search Of A Higher Standard: Rethinking Fiduciary Duties Of Directors Of Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries, Stefan J. Padfield
In Search Of A Higher Standard: Rethinking Fiduciary Duties Of Directors Of Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries, Stefan J. Padfield
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
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