Professor Christina M Sautter

Christina Sautter teaches Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities Regulation, and Business Associations I & II. Her scholarship interests lie in corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, and transactional law. She co-authored Mergers and Acquisitions Law, a hornbook published by West Academic Publishing. She has authored articles in the Washington & Lee Law Review, Brooklyn Law Review, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Florida State University Law Review, Fordham Law Review Online, Tulane Law Review, The Journal of Corporation Law, and Delaware Journal of Corporate Law. She also is the author of a chapter in the Research Handbook on Mergers & Acquisitions. Her article, Auction Theory & Standstill Agreements: Dealing with Friends and Foes in a Sale of Corporate Control, 64 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 521 (2013), was one of twelve papers selected out of over 60 blind submissions for presentation at the Center for Law, Economics, and Finance (C-LEAF) 2013 Junior Faculty Business and Financial Law Workshop. The George Washington University Law School sponsored C-LEAF. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Sautter served as a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. During her fellowship, she taught Mergers & Acquisitions, Legal Research & Writing, and Moot Court (Appellate Advocacy). She also practiced in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group in the New York City offices of Shearman & Sterling LLP and clerked for the late Honorable H. Emory Widener, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Professor Sautter earned her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law, graduating summa cum laude. While in law school, Professor Sautter was a managing editor of the Villanova Law Review and was selected as a member of The Order of the Coif. She received her bachelor's degree in both Multinational Business Operations and Marketing from Florida State University, graduating summa cum laude.