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This paper analyzes the wave of board destaggering that has occurred over the past fifteen years. Other studies have concluded that the result of this phenomenon has been a substantial destruction of firm value, purportedly caused by re-orienting management from a long-term to short-term focus....
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This paper is a brief contribution to a symposium on the European Model Company Act (“EMCA”). In it, I point out the extent to which the EMCA employs broad standards, as opposed to specific rules, and the extent to which it allows companies to customize their own governance arrangements....
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This Article analyzes how the accumulation of liquidation rights over multiple rounds of investment in a start-up can result in an aggregate contractual arrangement among the company's investors and its management team that is suboptimal. Liquidation rights determine the allocation of the...
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This chapter revisits a proposal I made fifteen years ago to redesign CRA in a way that harnesses market forces. Specifically, I proposed that banks be permitted to trade their CRA obligations with one another in a manner analogous to 'cap and trade' regimes used to address environmental...
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In this article, we briefly present some basic statistics on the timing of dismissals and settlements in securities class actions. In contrast to the popular image of securities class actions, we find that over half of all cases are either dismissed or settle well before discovery begins. 38% of...
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Nearly all securities class actions that are not dismissed settle. Very few are tried to judgment. Who pays into settlements — the corporation, its directors and officers, or its D&O carrier? Companies buy D&O insurance in order to protect themselves and their directors and officers from...
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