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Full-Text Articles in Securities Law
The Securities Law Disclosure Conundrum For Publicly Traded Litigation Finance Companies, Robert F. Weber
The Securities Law Disclosure Conundrum For Publicly Traded Litigation Finance Companies, Robert F. Weber
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The Article examines a peculiar legal dilemma—implicating securities law, legal ethics, and evidence law—that arises when litigation finance companies (LFCs) become public companies. LFCs provide funding to litigants and law firms for prosecuting lawsuits in exchange for a share of the lawsuit recoveries. In recent years, LFCs have significantly altered the landscape of the civil justice system in common law jurisdictions. But their assets, which are just rights to proceeds from lawsuits, are notoriously opaque— who really can predict what a jury will do when it comes to liability and damages? When LFCs go public, this opacity frustrates public investors’ …
Why Do Corporations Merge And Why Should Law Care?, Chris Sagers
Why Do Corporations Merge And Why Should Law Care?, Chris Sagers
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Mergers and acquisitions are extraordinarily prevalent in the United States, generating massive expenditures every year. However, a serious empirical puzzle lies at the heart of all that activity. That empirical phenomenon’s most remarkable feature by far is that even though it is well established in an extensive literature and implies far-reaching policy consequences, American law ignores it entirely.
Generations of researchers have failed to find evidence that merger and acquisition activity generates any lasting benefits for the combining firms’ owners or anyone else. No one seriously doubts that efficiencies of scale or technological integration are real or that acquisitions sometimes …
Legal Guardrails For A Unicorn Crackdown, Alexander I. Platt
Legal Guardrails For A Unicorn Crackdown, Alexander I. Platt
Michigan Law Review Online
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is undertaking a historic effort to redraw the boundary between public and private companies. After years of watching—and sometimes encouraging—the explosive growth in less tightly regulated private markets and the proliferation of so-called “unicorns,” the agency is now reasserting its authority.
A key arrow in the agency’s regulatory quiver is its authority under section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) to force private companies to “go public” when they reach a certain size. The provision requires any company whose shares are “held of record” by more than 2,000 persons to …
Startups In The Whirlpool Of Divorce, Mira Ganor
Startups In The Whirlpool Of Divorce, Mira Ganor
Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review
Startups use stock options to compensate their employees. An employee’s divorce could result in a change in the formal ownership of the startup securities. However, the startup, the employee, and the former spouse of the employee all have considerable and conflicting interests in the outcome of the allocation of the employee’s securities as part of a divorce settlement. I argue that the startup, along with the relevant tax rules, imposes obstacles on the transferability of the securities to the employee’s former spouse that are likely to distort the settlement outcome. An inefficient outcome is likely because the person who may …