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Author Archives: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
Italian Regulator Issues New Rules on Related-Party Transactions
On March 12, 2010, through Resolution No. 17221, Consob issued new rules governing related-party transactions entered into by listed issuers and other issuers with widely held shares. The new rules are applicable whether such transactions are entered into directly by such issuers or indirectly through subsidiaries (the “Regulation”). [1] Main Innovations The Regulation confers a […]
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The Fundamentals of Director Oversight Under Threat
Several “reform” initiatives bred by the financial and regulatory crises of 2008–2009 now threaten to undermine the fundamentals of director oversight in 2010 and beyond. Collectively, if not individually, these destabilizing dynamics will alter the balance of power utterly between directors and activist stockholders, between federal and state regulators, between American and foreign sources of […]
Click here to read the complete postManagerial Legacies, Entrenchment, and Strategic Inertia
In the paper, Managerial Legacies, Entrenchment, and Strategic Inertia, forthcoming in the Journal of Finance, my co-author, Catherine Casamatta, and I explore a firm’s decision to replace a poorly performing CEO with a new CEO in a context where strategic decisions have a long-term impact on the firm’s cash flows. Such a legacy implies that […]
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Scrutiny of Confidential Witnesses Endorsed in Securities Fraud Complaint
It has become routine for plaintiffs’ lawyers to make allegations purportedly obtained from confidential witnesses to meet the stringent pleading requirements applicable to federal securities fraud complaints, and the weight that courts should give such allegations in deciding motions to dismiss has been hotly contested. In affirming the dismissal of a federal securities fraud class […]
Click here to read the complete postThe Influence of Top Managers on Voluntary Corporate Financial Disclosure
Our paper, What’s My Style? The Influence of Top Managers on Voluntary Corporate Financial Disclosure, forthcoming in The Accounting Review, investigates two related research questions: (1) Do top managers exhibit unique and economically significant individual-specific styles in voluntary corporate financial disclosure? (2) If so, are observable characteristics of managers’ personal backgrounds associated with any cross-sectional […]
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Enhancing Board Performance through Dynamic Board Development
Recent events have placed increased demands on the boards of public companies, and investors, regulators and lawmakers are calling on boards to improve their performance in key areas such as strategy, oversight of risk management, succession planning and the nomination process. Rather than seeking to address each of the current challenges in isolation, leading public […]
Click here to read the complete postValuing Safety is Good for Companies’ Bottom Line
Editor’s Note: Ben W. Heineman, Jr. is a former GE senior vice president for law and public affairs and a senior fellow at Harvard University’s schools of law and government. This post is based on an article that first appeared in the online edition of The Atlantic. In recent weeks, we have had two striking […]
Click here to read the complete postNew SSRN e-journal on Mergers & Acquisitions
The Corporate Governance Network (CGN) of SSRN recently launched a new e-journal on Acquisitions, Mergers, Contests for Control, & Activism. This journal distributes abstracts of, and links to, selected recent working papers that deal with M&A transactions, proxy fights & corporate elections, going private and freezeout transactions, hedge fund activism, and similar topics. The journal […]
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Law Firm Reputation and Mergers and Acquisitions
In this paper, Law Firm Reputation and Mergers and Acquisitions, which was recently made publicly available on SSRN and presented at the 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies 2009, my co-author, C.N.V. Krishnan of Case Western Reserve University, and I document the influence that top law firms have on M&A offer outcomes. Using a comprehensive […]
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The Decade’s Most Influential Corporate Lawyers
The National Law Journal recently published a list of the most influential lawyers of the last decade in each area of practice. We at the Forum were pleased to see that, out of the three attorneys selected as most influential in the corporate area, two are guest contributors of the Forum. The three attorneys selected […]
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