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Managing the Risks of Corporate Fraud: The Evidence from Hong Kong and Singapore

Wai Yee Wan | Christopher Chen | Chongwu Xia | Say H Goo

The stock markets of Hong Kong and Singapore are characterised by companies with concentrated shareholdings. In addition, they routinely attract issuers whose assets and businesses are located...

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Punjab National Bank Scam Is an Opportunity to Reform India's Public Sector Banks

Sandeep Gopalan

The Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam – India’s largest banking scandal – is as impeccably swadeshi (literally “of one’s own country”, indigenous) as that bank’s origins. It highlights in crass terms...

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Lessons from More than a Decade-Long History of Sanction in France

Laure de Batz

Since its creation in 2003, the Enforcement Committee of the French Financial Market Authority (AMF) has sanctioned market players which violate the set of rules to which they are subject. Four main...

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On the Pitfalls of Performance Standards

Cary Coglianese

Performance standards have long been heralded as a superior approach to regulating business activity. Such standards impose legal obligations to avoid or achieve specified outcomes, but then leave it...

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District Judge Rules That Dodd-Frank Allows SEC to Bring Securities Fraud Claims Over Certain Foreign Transactions

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Last week a Utah federal judge ruled that a provision of Dodd-Frank[1] authorizes the US Securities and Exchange Commission (‘SEC’) to bring fraud claims concerning securities bought or sold entirely...

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The Battle Against Harmful Phoenix Activity: An Australian Perspective

Helen Anderson | Michelle Welsh | Jasper Hedges

We are a team of academics at Melbourne Law School and Monash Business School who are investigating the regulation of phoenix activity as part of a project funded by the Australian Research Council...

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Corporate Finance

The Logic and Limits of Event Studies in Securities Fraud Litigation

Jill Fisch | Jonah Gelbach | Jonathan Klick

Event studies are ubiquitous in securities fraud litigation. Litigants use economist-prepared event studies to address several key elements, including loss causation, reliance, materiality and...

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Sham and Remedial Doctrines

Alexander A. Boni-Saenz

The recently leaked Panama Papers appear to expose widespread use of offshore trusts for tax evasion, money laundering, and other illegitimate forms of asset protection. These developments animate...

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