Corporate law in the United States involves dual regulation. Although state and federal corporate law typically function without mutual interference, the last thirty years have revealed potential conflicts, chiefly in two situations. One involves civil remedies for investors under federal...

$100 million. That is what Ivan Boesky paid the United States as part of a negotiated settlement to charges of inside trading. The Boesky and related securities fraud scandals focused unprecedented attention on the corporate restructuring phenomenon in general and risk arbitrage in particular....

This article examines the debate over the utility of the Securities Exchange Commission's (SEC or Commission) mandatory disclosure of management information by examining proposals to expand that system to require disclosure of management forecasts and valuation judgments. Whether the present...

The merger and acquisition boom has created considerable ferment in the development of corporate law. A major acquisition rarely passes without major litigation. The active market for corporate control is, in part, fueled through a burst of creativity in acquisition techniques of investment...

During the past thirty years, prodigious empirical and theoretical research and commentary has provided an economic perspective on the operation of capital markets. The literature has focused on the efficient capital market model, which posits that security prices fully reflect all available,...

Federal housing programs are planned for and implemented on a metropolitan or regional basis; consequently, to remedy federal discrimination in the administration of such programs, it is not only appropriate but necessary that the adopted remedy be on a similar metropolitan or regional basis. In...