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Author Archives: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
Responses to AFL-CIO’s Critique of the Agrawal Study
Ashwini Agrawal wrote to us: In my study, Corporate Governance Objectives of Labor Union Shareholders, I examine the proxy votes of the AFL-CIO Reserve Fund and Staff Retirement Fund. I compare the votes before and after the AFL-CIO split into two groups: the AFL-CIO and the Change to Win Coalition. After the breakup, the funds […]
Click here to read the complete postThe Corporate Governance Role of the Media
A forthcoming article in the Journal of Finance titled “The Corporate Governance Role of the Media: Evidence from Russia”, which is co-written by Alexander Dyck, Natalya Volchkova, and myself studies the effect of media coverage on corporate governance. The article focuses on Russia during the period 1999 to 2002 to answer two main questions: Can […]
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Posted in Academic Research, Empirical Research, International Corporate Governance & Regulation
Tagged General governance, Public perception
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Law and Economic Issues in Subprime Litigation
I have recently finished a paper, with two co-authors, Jennifer Bethel and Gang Hu, titled “Law and Economic Issues in Subprime Litigation”. The losses suffered by mortgaged-backed security (MBS) holders, collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) holders and security holders in investment banks, mortgage originators, bond insurers and credit rating agencies is generating, and will continue to […]
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Posted in Academic Research, Empirical Research, Financial Crisis, HLS Research, Securities Litigation & Enforcement
Tagged Financial crisis, Mortgage lending, Securities litigation, Subprime securities
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Safeway Adopts My Poison Pill Bylaw Proposal
Editor’s Note: This post is from Lucian Bebchuk of Harvard Law School. Safeway and I have reached an agreement under which the company adopted a by-law provision I proposed for limiting the adoption of poison pills. Safeway is the second company in this proxy season, and the fourth overall, to adopt a poison pill bylaw […]
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Posted in Mergers & Acquisitions, Program News & Events
Tagged Charter & bylaws, Poison pills, Safeway, Shareholder proposals
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AFL-CIO Proxy Voting
Editor’s Note: This post is from Daniel F. Pedrotty of AFL-CIO. The AFL-CIO has issued a new report, Facts about the AFL-CIO’s Proxy Votes, to explain how the AFL-CIO votes in corporate director elections. In summary, the AFL-CIO votes for corporate directors based on recommendations by an independent proxy advisor following proxy-voting guidelines that address […]
Click here to read the complete postThe Future of Transactional Legal Practice
On Wednesday February 27, HLS Professor George Triantis delivered his inaugural lecture “The Future of Transactional Legal Practice” marking his appointment to the Eli Goldston Professorship of Law. In his lecture, Triantis surveyed the reasons why major U.S. law firms have enjoyed robust growth in their transactional practices over the past several decades, including the […]
Click here to read the complete postSecurities Class Actions: Time to Fix Broken System
The National Law Journal recently published Securities Class Actions: Time to Fix Broken System, an opinion piece by defense counsel Daniel Small. The piece explains the rationale underpinning the existence of class actions and focuses on aspects of the system the author regards as broken. The piece is critical of the ability of the first […]
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Posted in Practitioner Publications, Securities Litigation & Enforcement
Tagged Class actions, Securities litigation
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Perpetuities, Taxes, and Asset Protection
The Program on Corporate Governance has recently released a new discussion paper entitled Perpetuities, Taxes, and Asset Protection: An Empirical Assessment of the Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds, which I co-wrote with Max Schanzenbach. The paper abstract is as follows: This chapter provides an accessible overview of our previous work on the impact of the […]
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Posted in Academic Research, Empirical Research, Financial Regulation, HLS Research
Tagged Investor protection, Taxation, Trusts
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Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance
Alon Brav, Wei Jiang and Frank Partnoy and I have recently released a paper, entitled Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance. The abstract is as follows: Using a large hand-collected data set from 2001 to 2006, we find that activist hedge funds in the U.S. propose strategic, operational, and financial remedies and attain […]
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Posted in Academic Research, Empirical Research, Securities Regulation
Tagged Firm performance, Hedge funds, Shareholder activism
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Fiduciary Duties for Activist Shareholders
Together with Iman Anabtawi, I have just issued a new article on SSRN entitled Fiduciary Duties for Activist Shareholders. The article is to be published in the Stanford Law Review, and a current draft is available here. The article was recently profiled in the Financial Times. Fiduciary Duties for Activist Shareholders argues that corporate law […]
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