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Dodd-Frank And International Regulatory Convergence: The Case For Mutual Recognition, Nicholas W. Turner '12
Dodd-Frank And International Regulatory Convergence: The Case For Mutual Recognition, Nicholas W. Turner '12
NYLS Law Review
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Ask The Professor: How Will The Seventh Circuit Rule In Sentinel Ii?, Ronald H. Filler
Ask The Professor: How Will The Seventh Circuit Rule In Sentinel Ii?, Ronald H. Filler
Articles & Chapters
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Hedge Fund Governance, Houman B. Shadab
Hedge Fund Governance, Houman B. Shadab
Articles & Chapters
This Article provides the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the internal governance of hedge funds. Hedge fund governance consists of the funds' underlying legal regime and the practices they adopt in response to lacking permanent capital and to reduce agency costs. Hedge fund governance is important because better governance can improve investor returns and help managers raise and retain capital. I argue that hedge fund governance is best understood as a type of responsive managerialism. It is a type of managerialism because applicable law and contracting structures give managers uniquely wide-ranging control over the fund and its operations. Hedge fund …
Myths About Shareholder Value, Faith Stevelman
Myths About Shareholder Value, Faith Stevelman
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The concept of unitary "shareholder value" and its reflection in nearterm stock prices formed the centrepiece of contemporary corporate governance up to the 2008 financial crisis. The crisis has elicited both more critical and clearer, book-length accounts of the relationship of law, corporate governance and finance. The concepts analysed in Lynn Stout's The Shareholder Value Myth are considered herein, as part of a commentary on the continuing evolution of academic corporate law and governance.