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Where Do We Go Now? The Uncertain Future For 29 U.S.C. § 1301(B)(1), Private Equity Funds, And Multiemployer Pension Plans After Sun Capita, Crighton T. Allen

Georgia Law Review

The United States faces a growing problem concerning corporate indebtedness to pension plans, specifically, multi-employer pension plans (MEPPs). MEPPs are group pension plans in which a number of employers join together to contribute to a fund benefitting all employees of the participating companies. If an employer seeks to withdraw from a MEPP by ceasing to contribute into it, the company faces a withdrawal penalty-its proportionate share of the plan's vested but unfunded benefits. The recent decision by the First Circuit in Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New England Teamsters & Trucking Industry Pension Fund has the potential to greatly …

Comparative Sex Regimes And Corporate Governance: An Introduction, Darren Rosenblum

Faculty Publications

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In February 2013, on the day of the worst snowstorm in many years, Pace International Law Review conducted a symposium on “Comparative Sex Regimes and Corporate Governance.” Despite a total shutdown of all transport networks and the consequent absence of a few stranded scholars, we met to discuss the fraught questions posed by corporate board quotas and formulate answers.

Led by Norway in 2003, several nations have begun to mandate certain levels of women’s inclusion on corporate boards. In the face of widespread exclusion of women from corporate power that suggests structural biases, these quotas appear radical and compelling. …

Teenage Crowdfunding, Andrew A. Schwartz

Publications

Teenage startups are in the public interest and should be encouraged, yet the federal CARD Act of 2009 eliminated credit card financing for many such companies, cutting off an important source of early-stage business capital for teenage entrepreneurs. Since then, however, Congress passed the CROWDFUND Act of 2012 which will allow teenagers to raise early-stage financing through Internet crowdfunding. Teens, being masters of the Internet, are well positioned to exploit this new opportunity, with the upshot being that securities crowdfunding may become an important way for youthful entrepreneurs to fund their business dreams.

Introductory Remarks, James Anaya

Publications

These remarks were delivered at a Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights panel held on Wednesday, April 9, 2014.