Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Law
Spotify’S Direct Listing And Foreign Private Issuers: Protecting Investors When Foreign Private Issuers List On A U.S. Exchange But Not On Their Home Exchange, Tayler Tanner
BYU Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Importance Of Inferior Voting Rights In Dual-Class Firms, Dov Solomon
The Importance Of Inferior Voting Rights In Dual-Class Firms, Dov Solomon
BYU Law Review
Over the past several years, corporate law scholarship has carefully analyzed the effects of dual-class capital structures, which allocate superior voting rights to insiders and inferior voting rights to public shareholders. This Article adds to the literature by focusing on a unique and novel type of dual-class structure—one in which the public shares have no voting rights at all. It notes that this structure is fundamentally different because in the absence of even highly diluted voting rights in public hands, the firm does not have to abide by certain types of disclosure rules and corporate governance standards. Nonvoting shareholders are …