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Beyond Morrison: The Effect Of The "Presumption Against Extraterritoriality" And The Transactional Test On Foreign Tender Offers, Vladislava Soshkina Nov 2012

Beyond Morrison: The Effect Of The "Presumption Against Extraterritoriality" And The Transactional Test On Foreign Tender Offers, Vladislava Soshkina

William & Mary Law Review

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Allocating Loss In Securities Fraud: Time To Adopt A Uniform Rule For The Special Case Of Ponzi Schemes, Grant Christensen Apr 2012

Allocating Loss In Securities Fraud: Time To Adopt A Uniform Rule For The Special Case Of Ponzi Schemes, Grant Christensen

William & Mary Business Law Review

The global financial crisis precipitated a condensing of capital and a fall in global equities markets that not only resulted in the necessity of government bailouts of the financial industry, but also exposed a number of Ponzi schemes that collectively will cost investors tens of billions of dollars. With a new wave of litigation by innocent investors against Ponzi scheme operators just beginning, and likely to take years to finish, it becomes important to clearly identify the methodologies used to value the loss and allocate existing assets among the remaining creditors. To that end, this Article argues that courts ought …


Insider Trading, Informed Trading, And Market Making: Liquidity Of Securities Markets In The Zero-Sum Game, Stanislav Dolgopolov Feb 2012

Insider Trading, Informed Trading, And Market Making: Liquidity Of Securities Markets In The Zero-Sum Game, Stanislav Dolgopolov

William & Mary Business Law Review

This Article reexamines the nexus of relationships among informed transactions, information asymmetry, and liquidity of securities markets in the context of public policy debates about insider trading and its regulation.The Article analyzes this nexus, with the emphasis on recent empirical studies and developments in the securities industry, from a variety of perspectives and considers the validity of the alleged link between insider trading—as opposed to other forms of informed trading—and market liquidity as a justification for the existence of regulation.