Purpose Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are important strategic actions undertaken by
firms to access resources and markets. However, firms face substantial challenges in M&As …

In a string of landmark corporate law rulings in the mid-2010s, 1 Delaware's Supreme Court
relaxed the standards of judicial review, allowing corporate decision-makers to escape …

ABSTRACT Merger andAcquisition (M&A) transactions create the potentialfor self-interested
behavior by the boards of directors of acquired, or target, corporations because target …

Using a large database of US mergers and acquisitions (M&As) announced from 2010
through 2017, we examine the effects of capital ratio (leverage) on the announcement …

Shareholder Divorce Court Page 1 Shareholder Divorce Court Ann M. Lipton* 1. IN TRO DU
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Has corporate law and its bundles of fiduciary obligations become irrelevant? Over the last
thirty years, the American public corporation has undergone a profound metamorphosis …

From demanding greater executive accountability to lobbying for social and environmental
policies, shareholders influence how managers run modern companies. In corporate …

Five years ago, the new Trump Administration debuted the use of a set of tools that allow a
president to roll back a predecessor's policies outside of textbook administrative law. 1 The …

Despite the centrality of shareholder voting to corporate governance, the rules and practices
that hold them together can seem like a hodgepodge of corporate law rules, securities …

This Article explores the conundrum resulting from the fact that shareholders almost
invariably vote to approve corporate mergers and sales by overwhelming margins, while, at …