Author Archives: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

Panel Discussion on Transactional Practice

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Wednesday, October 1, 2008

The Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance is pleased to announce the availability of the video of its event on transactional practice. The event, which was held earlier this month, is the second of the Program’s series entitled Introduction to Corporate Practice. The series’ aim is to expose students to leading practitioners and their […]

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Our Representation on the Most-Influential-Corporate-Governance-Players List

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Directorship magazine issued its second annual Directorship 100 list – a list of the 100 “most influential people on corporate governance.” The list includes such well-known figures as Chairman Barney Frank, Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, SEC Chair Christopher Cox, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, activist investor Carl Ichan, and Blackstone CEO Steve […]

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To Guide or Not to Guide? Causes and Consequences of Stopping Quarterly Earnings Guidance

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Monday, September 29, 2008

In “To Guide or Not to Guide? Causes and Consequences of Stopping Quarterly Earnings Guidance”, which I co-wrote with Joel F. Houston and Jennifer W. Tucker, and which was recently accepted for publication in Contemporary Accounting Research, we investigate the importance of quarterly earnings guidance. Quarterly earnings guidance—managers’ public forecasts of forthcoming earnings—is widespread yet […]

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Bailout Bill

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Monday, September 29, 2008

A Congressional section-by-section summary of the bailout bill to be voted on shortly by Congress is available here. The full draft of the bill is available here.

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U.S. v. Stein

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Sunday, September 28, 2008

In the recent decision of U.S. v. Stein, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the dismissal of all charges against thirteen former partners and employees of KPMG, holding that the government had violated defendants’ Sixth Amendment rights by pressuring KPMG to cut off payment of their legal fees. The court affirmed […]

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Family Control of Firms and Industries

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Saturday, September 27, 2008

Recently, in the Law, Economics, and Organization Seminar here at the Law School, I presented my paper, co-authored with Raphael Amit, entitled Family Control of Firms and Industries. In our study, we use the variation in the prevalence of family control within and across industries in the United States to test the two broad explanations […]

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A Better Plan For Addressing The Financial Crisis

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Friday, September 26, 2008

Editor’s Note: The post below is an op-ed piece published by Lucian Bebchuk in the Wall Street Journal this morning. This op-ed piece is based on his discussion paper, A Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis, which was just issued by the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance and is available here. Treasury Secretary […]

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Cross-Border Business Combination Transactions

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Thursday, September 25, 2008

At a recent public meeting, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a number of amendments to the rules that apply to cross-border tender offers, business combinations and rights offerings. The SEC also approved the issuance of interpretive guidance on several topics related to cross-border transactions. These amendments and guidance largely follow the SEC’s May 2008 […]

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Which Way Out?

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Editor’s Note: This op-ed by Professor Howell Jackson will be published in the print edition of the Christian Scientist Monitor tomorrow. While many agree that dramatic governmental action is needed to restore confidence in financial markets, there is less consensus on the precise form that action should take. Secretary Paulson has sketched out one approach […]

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Fed Relaxes Traditional Control Rules for Private Equity and Other Minority Investments in Banks and Bank Holding Companies

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Yesterday, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) issued a policy statement (the “Equity Policy Statement”) that relaxed and clarified its long-standing control rules relating to minority investments in banks and bank holding companies (“Banking Organizations”). These changes and clarifications relate to four principal areas: • expanded director rights; • […]

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