Shareholder activism by hedge funds has over the past few years become a major corporate governance phenomenon. This paper puts the trend into context. The paper begins by distinguishing the “offensive” form of activism hedge...
The standard narrative of the meltdown of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers assumes that the wealth of the top executives of these firms was largely wiped out along with their firms. In the ongoing debate about regulatory responses to...
Even prior to the emergence of COVID-19, global securities regulators were questioning whether short sellers needed to be put on a tighter leash...Read more
Mark Roe and John Coates spoke with Harvard Law Today (HLT) about what could be done to lower the chances of a bankruptcy backlog and how other...Read more
The global startup sector looks back on a decade of rising VC investment...Read more
