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Full-Text Articles in Law
Of Fine Lines, Blunt Instruments And Half-Truths: Business Acquisition Agreements And The Right To Lie, Jeffrey M. Lipshaw
Of Fine Lines, Blunt Instruments And Half-Truths: Business Acquisition Agreements And The Right To Lie, Jeffrey M. Lipshaw
ExpressO
In this article, I expand upon a happy coincidence (for scholars) in reconciling the overlap between contract and fraud. Both the recent book by Ian Ayres and Gregory Klass and the Delaware Court of Chancery in Abry Partners Acquisition V, L.P. v. F& W Acquisition, LLC addressed the issue of promissory fraud – the making of a contract as to which the promisor had no intention of performing. Each treatment, however, in focusing on fraudulent affirmative representations, falls short of (a) recognizing the fundamental aspect of deceptive promising in a complex deal, namely the half-truth, (b) articulating an appropriate doctrinal …
The Duty To Creditors Reconsidered - Filling A Much Needed Gap In Corporation Law, Richard A. Booth
The Duty To Creditors Reconsidered - Filling A Much Needed Gap In Corporation Law, Richard A. Booth
Working Paper Series
The most fundamental question of corporation law is to whom does the board of directors of a corporation owe its fiduciary duty. Recently, the question has tended to be whether and under what circumstances the board of directors has the duty to maximize stockholder wealth. But if a corporation is insolvent (or close to it), business decisions designed to maximize stockholder wealth may result in a reduction of creditor wealth. Although the conventional wisdom is that creditors must protect themselves by contractual means, there is a substantial body of case law that says that creditors can assert claims sounding in …
Give Me Equity Or Give Me Death - The Role Of Competition And Compensation In Building Silicon Valley, Richard A. Booth
Give Me Equity Or Give Me Death - The Role Of Competition And Compensation In Building Silicon Valley, Richard A. Booth
Working Paper Series
In this essay, I argue that the preeminence of Silicon Valley as an incubator of technology companies is attributable to equity compensation. Ronald Gilson, relying on the work of AnnaLee Saxenian and others who have noted the tendency of Silicon Valley employees to job hop, has suggested that California law prohibiting the enforcement of non-compete agreements was a major factor in the rise of Silicon Valley (and the demise of Route 128). I extend this line of thought by suggesting that California employers may have relied on equity compensation as a substitute way to bind employees. I argue further that …
Sarbanes-Oxley's Structural Model To Encourage Corporate Whistleblowers, Richard E. Moberly
Sarbanes-Oxley's Structural Model To Encourage Corporate Whistleblowers, Richard E. Moberly
BYU Law Review
No abstract provided.
Nonprofit Takeovers: Regulating The Market For Mission Control, Dana Brakman Reiser
Nonprofit Takeovers: Regulating The Market For Mission Control, Dana Brakman Reiser
BYU Law Review
No abstract provided.
Business Associations, Paul A. Quirós, Lynn S. Scott, William B. Shearer Iii
Business Associations, Paul A. Quirós, Lynn S. Scott, William B. Shearer Iii
Mercer Law Review
This Article surveys noteworthy cases in the areas of corporate, partnership, and limited liability company law decided during the survey period by the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States district courts located in Georgia. This Article also summarizes enactments at the 2006 Session of the Georgia General Assembly to the Official Code of Georgia Annotated ("O.C.G.A.") with respect to commerce, corporation, partnership, and associations law.
Contractarianism, Contractualism, And The Law Of Corporate Insolvency, Riz Mokal
Contractarianism, Contractualism, And The Law Of Corporate Insolvency, Riz Mokal
ExpressO
What is the appropriate way of theorising about corporate bankruptcy law? That lies, argues this paper, in rejecting Pareto and Kaldor-Hicks efficiency in favour of a particular conception of transaction cost efficiency, and in rejecting the ‘contractarian’ Creditors’ Bargain Model in favour of the ‘contractualist’ Authentic Consent Model. The paper vindicates these arguments with an analysis of the automatic stay which characterises the collective liquidation regime, of the pari passu principle often said to be at the heart of this regime, and of the liability imposed in some jurisdictions on the managers of terminally distressed companies for failing to take …
Business Combinations: Mergers And Sales And Purchases Of Ownership Interests And Entity Assets, Thomas P. Rohman, Stephen L. Owen
Business Combinations: Mergers And Sales And Purchases Of Ownership Interests And Entity Assets, Thomas P. Rohman, Stephen L. Owen
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Business Combinations: Mergers And Sales And Purchases Of Ownership Interests And Entity Assets (Related Articles), Stephen L. Owen
Business Combinations: Mergers And Sales And Purchases Of Ownership Interests And Entity Assets (Related Articles), Stephen L. Owen
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
S Corporations Redemptions And Divisions, Farhad Aghdami
S Corporations Redemptions And Divisions, Farhad Aghdami
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Comparison Of S Corporations And Llcs, Stefan F. Tucker
Comparison Of S Corporations And Llcs, Stefan F. Tucker
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Partnership Tax Allocation Provisions, Brian J. O'Connor
Partnership Tax Allocation Provisions, Brian J. O'Connor
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Liquidating According To Capital Accounts: Gone With The Wind?, Brian J. O'Connor, Steven R. Schneider
Liquidating According To Capital Accounts: Gone With The Wind?, Brian J. O'Connor, Steven R. Schneider
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Tax Considerations Of Transfers To And Distributions From The C Or S Corporation, C. Wells Hall Iii
Tax Considerations Of Transfers To And Distributions From The C Or S Corporation, C. Wells Hall Iii
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Executive Compensation Techniques For Closely-Held Businesses, Jeffrey R. Capwell
Executive Compensation Techniques For Closely-Held Businesses, Jeffrey R. Capwell
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Property And Liability Transfers To Partnerships: Built-In Gain Or Loss, Boot, And Disguised Sales, Andrea M. Whiteway
Property And Liability Transfers To Partnerships: Built-In Gain Or Loss, Boot, And Disguised Sales, Andrea M. Whiteway
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Ex Ante Choices Of Law And Forum: An Empirical Analysis Of Corporate Merger Agreements, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller
Ex Ante Choices Of Law And Forum: An Empirical Analysis Of Corporate Merger Agreements, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Legal scholars have focused much attention on the incorporation puzzle—why business corporations so heavily favor Delaware as the site of incorporation. This paper suggests that the focus on the incorporation decision overlooks a broader but intimately related set of questions. The choice of Delaware as a situs of incorporation is, effectively, a choice of law decision. A company electing to charter in Delaware selects Delaware law (and authorizes Delaware courts to adjudicate legal disputes) regarding the allocation of governance authority within the firm. In this sense, the incorporation decision is fundamentally similar to any setting in which a company selects …
Ex Ante Choices Of Law And Forum: An Empirical Analysis Of Corporate Merger Agreements, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey Miller
Ex Ante Choices Of Law And Forum: An Empirical Analysis Of Corporate Merger Agreements, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey Miller
Vanderbilt Law Review
A leading question in American corporate law is why such a large percentage of large firms choose Delaware as their state of incorporation. An early view saw Delaware as leading a "race to the bottom" by providing charter terms that favored corporate managers at the expense of shareholders and the public at large. Later theorists postulated that Delaware might rather be providing terms that benefited all parties to the corporate contract ex ante-the "race to the top" view. Some have suggested that Delaware incorporation may represent neither a race to the top nor to the bottom, but rather a race …
Exploding The Class Action Agency Costs Myth: The Social Utility Of Entrepreneurial Lawyers, Myriam E. Gilles, Gary B. Friedman
Exploding The Class Action Agency Costs Myth: The Social Utility Of Entrepreneurial Lawyers, Myriam E. Gilles, Gary B. Friedman
Articles
In this article, we challenge the traditional view that entrepreneurial plaintiffs' class action lawyers operating entirely according to their own economic self-interest serve no social utility, or worse yet, tremendous disutility. In seeking to counter this notion, we try to show that the agency costs problem long derided in class action practice is overblown: in the majority of small-claims class actions, there is no legitimate reason to care whether class members are being undercompensated (or compensated at all), nor any reason to worry that entrepreneurial lawyers are being overcompensated. Rather, we assert that the driving force behind class action practice …
Using Sarbanes-Oxley Act To Reward Honest Corporations, Tamar Frankel
Using Sarbanes-Oxley Act To Reward Honest Corporations, Tamar Frankel
Faculty Scholarship
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act offers an opportunity to reward truthful corporations and their management, offering them a competitive advantage by relieving them from some of the Act's provisions. Corporate culture plays an important role in a corporation's honest behavior One size does not fit all in matters of organizational integrity. The provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that apply the same internal controls and governance rules on all public corporations impose unnecessary costs on honest corporations by requiring them to change one set of good habits that are part of the corporate culture for another mandated by law. This essay suggests that …
Ley Federal Del Procedimiento Contencioso Administrativo., Bruno L. Costantini García
Ley Federal Del Procedimiento Contencioso Administrativo., Bruno L. Costantini García
Bruno L. Costantini García
Ponencia sobre la Ley Federal del Procedimiento Contencioso Administrativo, impartida por Bruno L. Costantini García.
A Complete Property Right Amendment, John H. Ryskamp
A Complete Property Right Amendment, John H. Ryskamp
ExpressO
The trend of the eminent domain reform and "Kelo plus" initiatives is toward a comprehensive Constitutional property right incorporating the elements of level of review, nature of government action, and extent of compensation. This article contains a draft amendment which reflects these concerns.
Hostile Takeovers And Hostile Defenses: A Comparative Look At U.S. Board Deference And The European Effort At Harmonization, Tyler A. Theobald
Hostile Takeovers And Hostile Defenses: A Comparative Look At U.S. Board Deference And The European Effort At Harmonization, Tyler A. Theobald
ExpressO
The United States and the European Union have taken very different approaches in dealing with tender offers, especially in respect to the amount of power the board of directors has to block an unwanted takeover attempt. The United States has no single set of guiding principles regarding most of substantive corporate law and the field of tender offers is no different. The European Union, on the other hand, has very recently passed legislation that not only attempts to harmonize the corporate takeover laws of all its member states, but seeks to restrict the power of the board of directors. The …
The Flight From Arbitration: An Empirical Study Of Ex Ante Arbitration Clauses In Publicly-Held Companies’ Contracts, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey Miller
The Flight From Arbitration: An Empirical Study Of Ex Ante Arbitration Clauses In Publicly-Held Companies’ Contracts, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey Miller
ExpressO
We study a data set of 2,858 contracts contained as exhibits in Form 8-K filings by reporting corporations over a six month period in 2002 for twelve types of contracts and a seven month period in 2002 for merger contracts. Because 8-K filings are required only for material events, these contracts likely are carefully negotiated by sophisticated parties who are well-informed about the contract terms. These contracts, therefore, provide evidence of efficient ex ante solutions to contracting problems. The vast majority of contracts did not require arbitration. Only about 11 percent of the contracts included binding arbitration clauses. The rate …
Confidential Informants In Private Litigation: Balancing Interests In Anonymity And Disclosure, Ethan D. Wohl
Confidential Informants In Private Litigation: Balancing Interests In Anonymity And Disclosure, Ethan D. Wohl
ExpressO
Heightened pleading standards and limits on discovery in private securities fraud actions make confidential informants crucial in many cases. While courts have widely recognized the importance of confidential informants and the need to protect them from retaliation, they have not applied consistent standards for how informants must be identified in pleadings, and have failed to take into account substantial bodies of relevant caselaw when deciding whether to require that informants’ names be disclosed in discovery.
This article offers a framework for when and how confidential informants should be identified, taking into account the competing interests in anonymity and disclosure. It …
Whistleblower Protections Under The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: A Primer And A Critique, Valerie J. Watnick
Whistleblower Protections Under The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: A Primer And A Critique, Valerie J. Watnick
ExpressO
In the wake of scandals involving Enron Corporation, Arthur Andersen and other corporations, Congress enacted the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act of 2002 (hereinafter the “Act” or “Sarbanes-Oxley”).This article critically examines the whistleblower protections afforded employees under Sarbanes-Oxley. Part I of the article considers the statutory language, the legislative history, and the regulations pursuant to the Act. Part II of the article examines recent decisions by the U.S. Department of Labor in Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower cases (cases under the Act are initially adjudicated by the Department of Labor) and the overall framework for implementation …
A Proposal To Revise The Sec Instructions For Reporting Waivers Of Corporate Codes Of Ethics For Conflicts Of Interest, Madoka Mori
ExpressO
Enron’s collapse focused attention on the application of that company’s Code of Ethics to related-party transactions. That focus produced Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which intends to regulate conflicts of interest between officers and their companies through codes of ethics that public companies adopt. Pursuant to SOX Section 406(a), the Securities Exchange Commission issued new regulations requiring each public company to disclose whether it has a code of ethics, and if a company has not adopted such a code, to explain why it has chosen not to do so. SEC rules also require each company that has …
The End Of Corporate Governance Law, Steven A. Ramirez
The End Of Corporate Governance Law, Steven A. Ramirez
ExpressO
This article argues that corporate governance is sub-optimal because of special interest influence at both the state and federal level, and because institutionally the mechanisms for promulgating corporate governance are not capable of impounding corporate goverance science. I offer as a solution the creation of depoliticized agency (on par with the Fed) that could administer a federal incorporation regime in an expert manner and without special interest interference. I posit that shareholders should be empowered to select this federal incorporation option.
Corporate Governance And Rational Energy Choices, Steven Ferrey
Corporate Governance And Rational Energy Choices, Steven Ferrey
William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review
No abstract provided.
O Mercado De Capitais E O Desenvolvimento Econômico E Social, Luiz Rafael De Vargas Maluf
O Mercado De Capitais E O Desenvolvimento Econômico E Social, Luiz Rafael De Vargas Maluf
Luiz Rafael de Vargas Maluf
Este trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar ao leitor a importância dada ao mercado de capitais para o desenvolvimento econômico, assim como o bem estar social da nação que pode ser conseguido através de investimentos nesta área. Ao longo das próximas páginas será demonstrado brevemente a repercussão histórica do mercado de capitais para a economia brasileira nas últimas décadas, sendo posteriormente vista a sua importante relação para o desenvolvimento econômico-social do país. Por último serão trazidos alguns questionamentos e sugestões de possíveis iniciativas a serem adotadas para o seu crescimento em geral, desmistificando muitos conceitos criados ao longo dos últimos anos, …