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Crypto Skeptics’ Supreme Risk: The Danger of Relying on Courts to Decide Crypto’s Fate

12 April 2024

Todd Phillips

The Poison Pill: Still Relevant After All These Years—Even in Japan

4 April 2023

Curtis J. Milhaupt

Zenichi Shishido

China’s recent regulation of variable interest entity structures has led to a drop in Chinese companies’ US listings

Over the past two decades, Chinese issuers have widely used the variable interest entity (VIE) structure to raise overseas capital while, at the same time, ‘satisfying’ China’s regulation of foreign...

19 April 2022

Fa Chen

When Biden Met Crypto: Thoughts on the President’s Executive Order

On March 9, 2022, President Biden signed an executive order (‘the Order’) requiring federal agencies to submit reports on how cryptocurrencies relate to various issues, including money laundering, investor protection,...

11 April 2022

Hadar Jabotinsky

Roee Sarel

The shareholder in France and the United States: A comparative analysis of corporate legal priorities

The fundamental question in the law of business organizations—what is the purpose of the corporation? —contains a related question of constituencies and therefore priorities among them—whom does the corporation serve?...

Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act

Banks became major participants in US securities markets twice in the past century—during the 1920s and after the mid-1990s. Both times, banks with ‘universal banking’ powers originated risky loans and...

16 October 2020

Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr.

Understanding US Regulatory and Market Access Considerations to Help Accelerate Growth for FinTechs

In 2018, United States venture capital firms invested over $10.5 billion in FinTech firms across 1,042 deals. And of the 48 FinTech ‘unicorns’ valued at over $1 billion,...

7 January 2020

Shearman & Sterling

Bankruptcy Hardball

By many accounts, we have entered an era of unprecedented contentiousness in debtor-creditor relations. For an example of the new status quo, consider the recent actions of PetSmart, a perfectly...

8 March 2019

Jared A. Ellias

Robert J. Stark

Making Consumer Finance Work

In early 2009, with the financial crisis still raging, progressive policymakers successfully passed legislation upending the credit card industry. This legislation precluded card issuers from changing interest rates without sufficient...

14 February 2019

Natasha Sarin

The Anatomy of Distressed Debt Markets

The market for investing in distressed debt securities, the so-called ‘vulture’ markets, has captured the interest of increasing numbers of investors and analysts. These investors, sometimes categorized as ‘alternative asset’...

18 January 2019

Edward Altman

Robert Benhenni

Crypto Skeptics’ Supreme Risk: The Danger of Relying on Courts to Decide Crypto’s Fate

The Poison Pill: Still Relevant After All These Years—Even in Japan

China’s recent regulation of variable interest entity structures has led to a drop in Chinese companies’ US listings

When Biden Met Crypto: Thoughts on the President’s Executive Order

The shareholder in France and the United States: A comparative analysis of corporate legal priorities

Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act

Understanding US Regulatory and Market Access Considerations to Help Accelerate Growth for FinTechs

Bankruptcy Hardball

Making Consumer Finance Work

The Anatomy of Distressed Debt Markets

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