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Author Archives: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
New 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 […]
Click here to read the complete postTurbulent Waters for Derivatives Markets
Central clearing may sound like a wonder drug to regulators and politicians around the world anxious to control trading in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, but it has side effects. US authorities realise this and have “backed off” from a position of requiring all derivatives to be cleared. Some in the US believe there will be a […]
Click here to read the complete postRegaining Corporate Governance Balance
Those who believe that U.S. corporate governance reform efforts have been moving too fast and too far off course [1] need to focus carefully on the current state of play. We are at a moment in time when it may be possible to achieve a more balanced outcome from Washington than seemed likely only a […]
Click here to read the complete postPerformance Persistence in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
In the paper, Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital, forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics, my co-authors (Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, and David Scharfstein) and I address two basic questions: Is there performance persistence in entrepreneurship? And, if so, why? Our answer to the first question is yes: all else equal, a venture-capital-backed […]
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The Lead Director’s Role in Major Transactions and Board Succession Planning
The lead director’s role in major corporate transactions and board succession planning are two topics that are often critical to a company’s long-term success. However, although “bet the company” transactions are themselves not new, in view of the recent expansion of lead directors’ roles, there is currently little formal guidance or established practices defining the role […]
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Strategic and Financial Bidders in Takeover Auctions
In the paper, Strategic and Financial Bidders in Takeover Auctions, which was recently made publicly available on SSRN, we propose a structural empirical model of a takeover auction that studies asymmetries between strategic and financial bidders. A large portion of deals in the multi-trillion market for takeovers are done through the competitive auction. In these […]
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Multiple Gatekeepers
In my paper Multiple Gatekeepers, which was recently accepted for publication in the Virginia Law Review, I extend the literature on gatekeeper liability by considering the possibility that the fraud-deterrence capacity of gatekeepers will be interdependent, and not simply independent as previous scholars have assumed. Put differently, I envisage of gatekeepers as providing an interacting […]
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