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The Growth Of Vancouver As An Innovation Hub: Challenges And Opportunities, Camden Hutchison, Li-Wen Lin

All Faculty Publications

This article assesses the development of Vancouver as an entrepreneurial region. Using data collected from commercial startup databases, we find that Vancouver produces more startups and receives more venture capital financing per capita than any other major Canadian city. However, we also find that Vancouver lags many U.S. cities on these same metrics. In light of our empirical findings, we explore whether differences in entrepreneurial activity between Canada and the United States are due to differences in the countries’ legal environments. We conclude that legal differences do not explain observed economic disparities, and that differences in entrepreneurial activity are due …

Bankruptcy Boundary Games, David A. Skeel Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

For the past several decades, Congress has steadily expanded the exclusion of securities market operations from core bankruptcy protections. This Article focuses on three of the most important of these issues: the exclusion of brokerage firms from Chapter 11; the protection of settlement payments from avoidance as preferences or fraudulent conveyances; and the exemption of derivatives from the automatic stay and other basic bankruptcy provisions. In Parts I, II and III of the Article, I consider each of the issues in turn, showing that each has had serious unintended consequences. Both Drexel Burnham and Lehman Brothers evaded the brokerage exclusion, …

Lifting The Cloud Of Uncertainty Over The Repo Market: Characterization Of Repos As Separate Purchases And Sales Of Securities, William F. Hagerty, Iv

Vanderbilt Law Review

In light of the actual and potential financial harm that repo investors faced after failures of several repo market participants,this Note proposes a new legal characterization of repos and argues for adoption of proposed Bankruptcy Code amendments pertaining to repos. Both of these suggestions would give repo investors significant future financial protection without destroying the financially attractive characteristics of repurchase agreements.

Part II of this Note begins laying the foundation for this proposal by discussing current repo market problems that the failures of several repoissiers have exposed.

Part II discusses new policies concerning the appropriate uses of the collateral securities …

An Uneasy Relationship Between The Bankruptcy Reform Act And The Uniform Commercial Code: Delayed And Continued Perfection Of Security Interests, George L. Dawson

UF Law Faculty Publications

The widespread adoption of article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code in the 1950s and 1960s resulted in an ‘uncertain correlation’ between state personal property security law and the Bankruptcy Act of 1898. Although the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 frequently relied upon existing state law to determine the validity of a secured creditor's interest in the personal property of a bankruptcy debtor, its provisions were more compatible with pre-Code personal property security law. As a result, courts often struggled to reconcile the meanings of the two statutes.

The enactment of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 held out the promise …