Subverting Shareholder Rights: Lessons from News Corp.'s Migration to Delaware
News Corp. is currently at the centre of a major corporate crisis, which began in the U.K. with the notorious phone hacking scandals, but is now spreading...
Read moreNews Corp. is currently at the centre of a major corporate crisis, which began in the U.K. with the notorious phone hacking scandals, but is now spreading...
Read moreThe takeover standards that we learn and teach in law school, Revlon, Unocal, Weinberger, and Blasius, appear to be in decline. In this chapter for the...
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Read moreEvent studies have become increasingly important in securities fraud litigation after the Supreme Court?s decision in Halliburton II. Litigants have...
Read moreHostile takeovers are commonly thought to play a key role in rendering managers accountable to dispersed shareholders in the Anglo-American system of...
Read moreIn December 2020, Nasdaq asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to approve new diversity rules. The aim is for most Nasdaq-listed firms to...
Read moreA variety of professional data vendors nowadays provide firm-level Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings (or scores). These ratings...Read more