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Regulation S - Rules Governing Offers And Sales Made Outside The United States Without Registration Under The Securities Act Of 1933, Caroline Mary Rutherford Lee
Regulation S - Rules Governing Offers And Sales Made Outside The United States Without Registration Under The Securities Act Of 1933, Caroline Mary Rutherford Lee
LLM Theses and Essays
Underpinning a regulatory regime is a dichotomy between achieving certainty of outcome and achieving perceived fairness. While such a discussion may seem out of place in the context of a regulatory regime dealing with offshore offerings, it nonetheless serves to emphasize some of the considerations encountered in the following examination of Regulation S. Part Two of this thesis outlines the development of the disclosure regime that is evidenced in the United States Federal Securities Regulations and then goes on to examine how this regime, first established in the 1930s, dealt with the advent of globalization. Part Three then looks at …
Securities Disclosure Regime - Challenges Posed By The Internet And Technology, Thomas Thomas Thoppil
Securities Disclosure Regime - Challenges Posed By The Internet And Technology, Thomas Thomas Thoppil
LLM Theses and Essays
This thesis is an effort to evaluate the structural changes that have taken place in the securities market of the United States and its impact on securities disclosure regime mandated by the Federal Securities Act. Part 2 of the thesis discusses the securities disclosure regime and its underlying economic theories. This part also traces the challenges posed by technology and takes a quick look at the argument that the traditional norms are incompatible in dealing with those challenges. Part 3 deals primarily with structural developments in the securities market over the past five years by examining some of the innovative …
The French First Demand Guarantee And The Standby Credit: A Comparative Study, Muriel Charreton
The French First Demand Guarantee And The Standby Credit: A Comparative Study, Muriel Charreton
LLM Theses and Essays
Since World War II new security devices have evolved in both France and the United States. In France, the new device is known as the first demand guarantee. In the United States, it is called standby letter of credit. The underlying market forces which caused these devices to be developed are the same. But the label applied to the devices and the bodies of existing doctrine with respect to which they are formulated is different. In the French view, the difference between the two instruments is just a matter of different labels. But in the American view, the distinction between …