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Social Enterprise, Law & Legal Education, Lorne Sossin, Devon Kapoor
Social Enterprise, Law & Legal Education, Lorne Sossin, Devon Kapoor
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article examines the relationship between law and social enterprise. More specifically, it explores ways in which the law and the law school can serve to refine and promote the development of social enterprise. The article begins by canvassing the existing conceptions of social enterprise to provide a basis for understanding and to identify points of access for legal intervention. At the end of this analysis, we arrive at a working definition of social enterprise: A legal entity engaged in socially responsible economic activity for the purpose of generating revenue that is to be used to advance a social mission. …
Coordination And Monitoring In Changes Of Control: The Controversial Role Of “Wolf Packs” In Capital Markets, Anita Anand, Andrew Mihalik
Coordination And Monitoring In Changes Of Control: The Controversial Role Of “Wolf Packs” In Capital Markets, Anita Anand, Andrew Mihalik
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Given recent empirical work suggesting that Canada is one of two countries in which outcomes favourable to shareholder activists are more likely than in the United States, one might wonder whether shareholders in Canadian public companies have become too empowered. This concern takes on particular significance in light of controversies arising from the emergence of “wolf packs”: loose networks of parallel-minded shareholders (typically hedge funds) that act together to effect change in a given corporation without disclosing their collective interest. This article analogizes the role of wolf packs in the corporation to that of a blockholder. It isolates certain conditions …
Lyman Johnson’S Invaluable Contribution To Delaware Corporate Jurisprudence, Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Jack B. Jacobs
Lyman Johnson’S Invaluable Contribution To Delaware Corporate Jurisprudence, Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Jack B. Jacobs
Washington and Lee Law Review
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