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Choice Of Entities For Holding Real Estate: Corporations, Leonard L. Silverstein
Choice Of Entities For Holding Real Estate: Corporations, Leonard L. Silverstein
William & Mary Annual Tax Conference
No abstract provided.
Competing Merger Offers - Disclosure And Related Problems, Author Unidentified
Competing Merger Offers - Disclosure And Related Problems, Author Unidentified
Vanderbilt Law Review
An attractive company that makes known its desire to find a merger partner or announces an agreement in principle to merge with another corporation is likely to receive multiple inquiries or multiple offers from acquisition-minded corporations. This Note examines various problems and duties confronting a publicly held company' that receives multiple merger inquiries and offers. The starting point for this analysis is one court's directive that a proxy statement soliciting shareholder approval of a merger recommended by management must disclose competing merger offers from third parties if such offers are "definitive" and "may" be more advantageous to the shareholders than …
Keys To Unlock The Interlocks: Dealing With Interlocking Directorates, Richard P. Murphy
Keys To Unlock The Interlocks: Dealing With Interlocking Directorates, Richard P. Murphy
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The use of interlocking directorates by American industrial and commercial corporations is widespread. Section 8 of the Clayton Act has been interpreted as prohibiting only interlocks between directly competing firms. There are other kinds of interlocks with substantial anticompetitive effects, however, that have essentially escaped any regulation under the antitrust laws. This article will examine whether the deleterious effects of unregulated interlocks should be a source of concern. It will conclude that these interlocks should not remain unregulated because they are presumptively anticompetitive, produce problems that section 8 was designed to address, and conflict with the basic goals of the …
Restructuring The Corporate Board Of Directors: Fond Hope--Faint Promise?, Lewis D. Solomon
Restructuring The Corporate Board Of Directors: Fond Hope--Faint Promise?, Lewis D. Solomon
Michigan Law Review
Reforms, then, have been instituted, and an extensive literature on corporate reform has developed. It is time that we seriously examine the reforms and the literature to assess the accomplishments and possibilities of the corporate board of directors. This Article is a first step in that direction.
The Article begins by investigating the reasons for the impotence of corporate boards. It then examines two models of reformed boards and finds both models badly flawed. The Article proceeds to case studies of three corporations-Mattel, Inc., Northrop Corp., and Lockheed Corp.-which under court· order have attempted to reform their boards by increasing …
Securities Law - Rule 10b-5 - Oral Executory Contract To Purchase Securities Held To Provide Sufficient Basis For Standing To Bring Private 10b-5 Action, And Fraud Occuring During The Pendency Fo The Executory Contract Held To Be In Connection With The Purchase Of Securities, Lisa S. Hunter
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Corporate Taxation - Net Operating Loss Carryovers Do Not Make Otherwise Worhtless Stock Valuable In The Hands Of The Corporate Shareholder, Jennifer Berke
Corporate Taxation - Net Operating Loss Carryovers Do Not Make Otherwise Worhtless Stock Valuable In The Hands Of The Corporate Shareholder, Jennifer Berke
Villanova Law Review
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Toward Constitutionalizing The Corporation: A Speculative Essay, Arthur S. Miller
Toward Constitutionalizing The Corporation: A Speculative Essay, Arthur S. Miller
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.