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GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series - Extreme times, Extreme Measures: Pandemic-Resistant Corporate Law

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law

It's a pandemic. There are no rules (Seth Meyers) These are exceptional times. Almost everywhere, policymakers are taking exceptional measures. Most of these measures are in the domains of public...

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Corporate Governance
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Land of the Falling ‘Poison’ Pill: An Analysis of Japan's Defensive Measures

Alan K Koh | Masafumi Nakahigashi | Dan W Puchniak

The advent of the ‘shareholder rights’ plan’, more popularly known as the ‘poison pill’, fundamentally altered the trajectory of American corporate governance. Intended to defend vulnerable boards...

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Commercial Law
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Hostile Takeover Regimes in Asia: A Comparative Approach

Umakanth Varottil | Wai Yee Wan

The market for corporate control (operating through hostile takeovers) acts as a key corporate governance mechanism to discipline corporate managers. However, the process and substance of the...

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Corporate Governance
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The Enigma of Hostile Takeovers in Japan Bidder Beware

Dan W Puchniak | Masafumi Nakahigashi

For over two decades, Japan has had all of the essential elements that leading academics and sophisticated investors have assumed to be sufficient for a country to develop an active market for...

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New Book: David Kershaw's "Principles of Takeover Regulation"

David Kershaw

Principles of Takeover Regulation (OUP, 2016) explores the nature and optimality of the regulation of the UK’s market for corporate control through the Takeover Code, which is maintained and enforced...

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