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Shareholder Primacy versus Shareholder Accountability

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William W. Bratton

The New Bond Workouts

In the United States, bond workouts are a famously dysfunctional method of debt restructuring, ridden with opportunistic and coercive behavior by bondholders and bond issuers. Historically, they also have been...

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William W. Bratton

Adam J. Levitin

The Separation of Corporate Law and Social Welfare

The Washington & Lee Law Review is publishing a symposium celebrating the scholarly careers of Professors Lyman Johnson and David Millon on the occasion of their respective retirements. My essay,...

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William W. Bratton

Hedge Fund Activism, Poison Pills, and the Jurisprudence of Threat

Hedge fund activism is to corporate law’s early twenty-first century what the hostile takeover was to its late twentieth century. Like the hostile takeover, activism threatens incumbent managers and disrupts...

23 September 2016

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William W. Bratton

Institutional Investor Activism: Hedge Funds and Private Equity, Economics and Regulation

The increase in institutional ownership of recent decades has been accompanied by an enhanced role played by institutions in monitoring companies’ corporate governance behaviour. Activist hedge funds and private equity...

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William W. Bratton

Joseph A. McCahery

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