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The Impact of Environmental Liabilities on Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe: A Case Study of Poland
(University of California at Davis Law Review, 1994)
The Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries are breaking up their centrally planned economies at a record pace by selling formerly state-owned industrial enterprises to private sector investors. Privatization is expected ...
Megafirms
(North Carolina Law Review, 2001)
This paper documents and explains the amazing growth of the largest firms in law, accounting, and investment banking. Scholars to date have used various supply-side theories to explain the growth, and have generally examined ...
Judicial Review of Defensive Tactics in Proxy Contests: When is Using a Rights Plan Right?
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 1993)
Incumbent management has long enjoyed broad discretion in its
use of Rights Plans in proxy contests and joint offers. Legal scholars
have accepted the justifications for permitting incumbents such latitude
with little ...
A Theoretic Analysis of Corporate Auctioneers Liability Regimes
(Wisconsin Law Review, 1992)
In Schneider v. Lazard Freres & Co. a New York appellate court greatly expanded the liability of investment advisers working as corporate auctioneers. Under this new legal regime, auctioneer/advisers accused of simple ...
Auctioning Class Action and Derivative Lawsuits: A Critical Analysis
(Northwestern University Law Review, 1993)
Numerous legal academics and practitioners have criticized the handling by plaintiffs' attorneys of large-scale class action and derivative lawsuits. These critiques point out attorneys' abuse of the legal system, ranging ...
Customizing Employment Arbitration
(Iowa Law Review, 2012)
According to the dispute resolution literature, one advantage of arbitration over litigation is that arbitration enables the parties to customize their dispute resolution procedures. For example, parties can choose the ...
The Evolving Role of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance and Corporate Litigation
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
Each of the articles in this Symposium sheds new light on the ever-changing role of institutional investors in U.S. corporate governance and corporate litigation. They cover a broad range of topics, including institutional ...
Selectica Resets the Trigger on the Poison Pill: Where Should the Delaware Courts Go Next?
(Indiana Law Journal, 2012)
Since their invention in 1982, shareholder rights plans have been the subject of intense controversy. Rights plans, or as they are known more pejoratively “poison pills,” enable a target board to “poison” a takeover attempt ...
Dodd-Frank's Say on Pay: Will It Lead to a Greater Role for Shareholders in Corporate Governance?
(Cornell Law Review, 2012)
"Say on pay" gives shareholders an advisory vote on a company's pay practices for its top executives. Beginning in 2011, Dodd-Frank mandated such votes at public companies. The first year of "say on pay" under the new ...
Is U.S. CEO Compensation Inefficient Pay Without Performance?
(Michigan Law Review, 2005)
In this paper, we review Pay Without Performance by Professors Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried. The book develops and summarizes the leading critiques of current executive compensation practices in the U.S., and offers a ...