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The Sec's Spac Solution, Karen Woody, Lidia Kurganova
The Sec's Spac Solution, Karen Woody, Lidia Kurganova
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The SPAC craze has ebbed and flowed over the past few years, creating fortunes and ruining others. The SEC stepped into the mix in 2022 and proposed rules governing SPACs. The proposed rules artfully balance the interests of investor protection while retaining some of the featured characteristics of SPACs as innovative ways to take companies public. This Article details the history of SPACs, including their benefits and risks, and analyzes the SEC’s proposed rules, arguing that the SEC is well within its Congressional authority to regulate SPACs, and that the proposed rules are both well-tailored and necessary.
Profiting From Our Pain: Privileged Access To Social Impact Investing, Cary Martin Shelby
Profiting From Our Pain: Privileged Access To Social Impact Investing, Cary Martin Shelby
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Social impacting investing has become the latest trend to permeate the financial markets. With massive anticipated funding gaps for sustainable development goals, and a millennial-driven thirst for doing good while doing well, this trend is likely to continue in the coming decades. This burgeoning industry is poised to experience yet an additional boost, since it provides an alternative mechanism for private actors to “profit from our pain,” particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
As to be expected, the law has not sufficiently adapted to this new wave of innovation. Scholars have thus …
The New Insider Trading, Karen E. Woody
The New Insider Trading, Karen E. Woody
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Pursuant to the SEC’s Rule 10b-5, in order to obtain a conviction for insider trading based upon a tipper-tippee theory, the government must prove that the tipper received a personal benefit for the tip, and that the tippee knew about that benefit. The last five years of blockbuster insider trading cases have focused on this seemingly nebulous personal benefit test, and the Supreme Court has been unable to clear the muddy waters. As a result, the parameters of insider trading remain hard to pin down and often shift depending on the facts of the most recent case. Two terms ago, …
Boards In Information Governance, Faith Stevelman, Sarah C. Haan
Boards In Information Governance, Faith Stevelman, Sarah C. Haan
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This Article focuses on the evolving role of boards of directors. It charts the decline of the two leading, twentieth-century conceptual frameworks shaping corporate boards’ roles: agency cost theory, which produced the limited “monitoring board,” and “separate realms” theory, which ceded board responsibility for matters other than profit maximization to government regulation. Hedge fund activism and wild stock market swings have exposed the limits of the board’s role in agency cost theory. The 2020 pandemic, economic crises, investors’ demands for socially responsible stewardship, and corporations’ own political activism have rendered separate realms thinking untenable.
Although much theorizing in corporate law …
How Did We Get Here? Dissecting The Hedge Fund Conundrum Through An Institutional Theory Lens, Cary Martin Shelby
How Did We Get Here? Dissecting The Hedge Fund Conundrum Through An Institutional Theory Lens, Cary Martin Shelby
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This article dissects both the origins and resulting harms of what the author terms the "hedge fund conundrum," in which institutional investors, such as pension plans and endowments, have consistently increased hedge fund allocations over the past decade despite pervasive evidence of excessive fees and subpar returns. It then utilizes an historical institutionalist lens to examine how lawmakers may have enabled a conundrum of this magnitude. By and large, this phenomenon is a symptom of regulatory loopholes that have permitted the private hedge fund market to increase in "publicness" through its expanding access and subsequent harm to retail investors. Such …
Myth Of The Attorney Whistleblower, Carliss N. Chatman
Myth Of The Attorney Whistleblower, Carliss N. Chatman
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Notwithstanding the political grandstanding and legal regimes put in place to prevent the next Enron, this article explores whether attorney whistleblower provisions provided in the Standards of Professional Conduct for Attorneys Appearing and Practicing Before the Commission in the Representation of an Issuer and in the Model Rules of Professional Conduct are effective. When faced with attorney involvement in Enron, Congress passed § 307 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (Sarbanes), which required the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to amend its standards governing the conduct of attorneys practicing before the SEC. In response, the SEC and the American Bar Association …
Justice Stevens And Securities Law, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, Jason A. Cantone
Justice Stevens And Securities Law, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, Jason A. Cantone
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In this Article, we tell the overlooked story of Justice Stevens's important role in Supreme Court securities law decisions. In Part I, where we briefly highlight Stevens's career before his 1975 appointment to the Supreme Court, we observe that we can identify no evident interest in or connection to federal securities law or the securities industry, making his contributions all the more remarkable. The only foreshadowing of his prolific opinion-writing on the subject of securities law was his voluminous writing of opinions, in general, while serving on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. This commitment to authoring opinions stemmed, in …
Feeling Insecure—A State View Of Whether Investors In Municipal General Obligation Bonds Have A Mere Promise To Pay Or A Binding Obligation, Randle B. Pollard
Feeling Insecure—A State View Of Whether Investors In Municipal General Obligation Bonds Have A Mere Promise To Pay Or A Binding Obligation, Randle B. Pollard
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The City of Detroit's filing for municipal bankruptcy in July, 2013, has added to a continuing controversy of whether general obligation bondholders have a secured lien. The City of Detroit claimed its general obligation bondholders did not have a fully secured lien because the law of the state of Michigan did not create a statutory lien. Without the creation of a lien by state law, during the insolvency or bankruptcy of municipalities, general obligation bondholders will potentially have a mere promise to pay versus a binding obligation to pay, and therefore, will not have a secured lien. Treating otherwise secured …
Brief Of Professors At Law And Business Schools As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondents: Omnicare, Inc., Et Al. V. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund, Et Al., Celia Taylor, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, J. Robert Brown, Joan Macleod Heminway
Brief Of Professors At Law And Business Schools As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondents: Omnicare, Inc., Et Al. V. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund, Et Al., Celia Taylor, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, J. Robert Brown, Joan Macleod Heminway
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Gender And Securities Law In The Supreme Court, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, Michelle Harner, Jason A. Cantone
Gender And Securities Law In The Supreme Court, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, Michelle Harner, Jason A. Cantone
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The 2010 appointment of Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court meant that, for the first time, three female justices would serve together on that court. Less clear is whether Justice Kagan’s gender will really matter in how she votes as a justice. This question is an especially visible aspect of a larger issue: do female judges display gendered voting patterns in the cases that come before them?
This article makes a novel contribution to the growing literature on female voting patterns. We investigated whether female justices on the United States Supreme Court voted differently than, or otherwise influenced, …
Corporate Governance Reform In A Time Of Crisis, Christopher M. Bruner
Corporate Governance Reform In A Time Of Crisis, Christopher M. Bruner
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In this article I argue that crisis-driven corporate governance reform efforts in the United States and the United Kingdom that aim to empower shareholders are misguided, and offer an explanation of why policymakers in each country have reacted to the financial crisis as they have. I first discuss the risk incentives of shareholders and managers in financial firms, and examine how excessive leverage and risk-taking in pursuit of short-term returns for shareholders led to the crisis. I then describe the far greater power and centrality that U.K. shareholders have historically possessed relative to their U.S. counterparts, and explore historical and …
Enron And The Dark Side Of Worker Ownership, David K. Millon
Enron And The Dark Side Of Worker Ownership, David K. Millon
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For The Civil Practitioner: Review Of Fourth Circuit Opinions In Civil Cases Decided November 1, 1991 Through December 31, 1992: Xi - Securities Regulation, Lyman P.Q. Johnson
For The Civil Practitioner: Review Of Fourth Circuit Opinions In Civil Cases Decided November 1, 1991 Through December 31, 1992: Xi - Securities Regulation, Lyman P.Q. Johnson
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Securities Fraud And The Mirage Of Repose, Lyman P. Q. Johnson
Securities Fraud And The Mirage Of Repose, Lyman P. Q. Johnson
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After decades of confusion, in 1991 the Supreme Court articulated a uniform federal limitations period for securities fraud claims grounded on Rule 10b-5. The court further held that the new limitations period was not subject to equitable tolling.
This Article argues that the court wrongly conflated into a singular equitable tolling doctrine two historically and normatively distinct bases for tolling a limitations period. Only claims of securities fraud uncomplicated by a later cover-up of the original fraud are free from tolling principles. The limitations period for fraud which is subsequently concealed by an original wrongdoer remains, because of the still …
The Case Beyond Time, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, David K. Millon
The Case Beyond Time, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, David K. Millon
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The Delaware Supreme Court's opinion in Paramount Communications, Inc. v. Time, Inc.' treats several important questions that arise in connection with hostile corporate takeovers. At the same time, it leaves three critical issues unanswered. In this article, we first briefly describe what the Time decision did, comparing Chancellor William Allen's somewhat discursive Chancery Court opinion with the more peremptory ruling of the Supreme Court. Next, we identify three unarticulated but potentially far-reaching implications of both the Supreme Court's and Chancellor Allen's reasoning that threaten to destabilize seemingly settled doctrine governing the conduct of target company management.
Carpenter V. United States, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Carpenter V. United States, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Basic, Inc. V. Levinson, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Basic, Inc. V. Levinson, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Randall V. B.J. Loftsgaarden, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Randall V. B.J. Loftsgaarden, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Schreiber V. Burlington Northern, Inc., Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Schreiber V. Burlington Northern, Inc., Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Lowe V. Securites And Exchange Commission, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lowe V. Securites And Exchange Commission, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. V. Berner, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. V. Berner, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Gould V. Ruefenacht, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Gould V. Ruefenacht, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Landreth Timber Co. V. Landreth, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Landreth Timber Co. V. Landreth, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Daily Income Fund, Inc. V. Fox, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Daily Income Fund, Inc. V. Fox, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Herman & Mclean V. Huddleston, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Herman & Mclean V. Huddleston, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Dirks V. Securities And Exchange Commission, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Dirks V. Securities And Exchange Commission, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Edgar V. Mite Corp., Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Edgar V. Mite Corp., Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Steadman V. Security And Exchange Commission (Sec), Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Steadman V. Security And Exchange Commission (Sec), Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Rubin V. United States, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Rubin V. United States, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Chiarella V. United States, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Chiarella V. United States, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.