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26 Nov 2021
2 min to read

ESG Activity: Doing Financially ‘Well’ by Doing ‘Good’ and Looking ‘Good’

Claire Economidou | Dimitrios Gounopoulos | Dimitris Konstantios | Emmanuel Tsiritakis

The value of an investment is not necessarily merely about returns. A growing number of investors and other corporate stakeholders are calling for their money to go toward stocks or funds that are...
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28 Jun 2021
4 min to read

Disclosure, Firm Growth, and the JOBS Act

Anantha Divakaruni | Howard Jones

Financing investment in future growth is an important motivation for firms to go public (Brau and Fawcett, 2006; Ritter and Welch, 2002). Newly public firms fund investments mainly through public...
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  • Brexit
  • Financial Regulation
16 Mar 2021
5 min to read

UK Listing Review (March 3, 2021)

Paul Davies QC (hon), Harris Manchester College

UK financial institutions are clearly suffering from Brexit. Passporting rights have gone, financial services are not dealt with to any significant degree by the UK/EU future relations deal, and the...

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  • Financial Regulation
05 Mar 2020
4 min to read

Voluntary Disclosure for Primary Securities Offerings

Andrew A. Schwartz

Mandatory disclosure is a foundation of modern securities law, both in the United States and around the world. But is it really necessary? After all, corporate promoters wishing to sell securities...

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  • Financial Regulation
18 Oct 2019
7 min to read

The Valuation and Governance Bubbles of Silicon Valley

Jesse Fried | Jeffrey N. Gordon, Faculty of Law

The rise and fall of The We Company IPO bubble is one of those events that, like the subprime mortgage bubble that preceded the financial crisis, calls for an examination of market structures that...

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  • Corporate Governance
25 Aug 2017

How Dual Class Shares in IPOs Can Create Value

Bernard S. Sharfman

The shareholder empowerment movement (the 'movement'), driven primarily by public pension funds and union-related funds with over $3 billion in assets, has renewed its effort to eliminate, restrict,...

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  • Corporate Governance
14 Aug 2017

The Value of Private Ordering and the Snap IPO

Bernard S. Sharfman

The private ordering of corporate governance arrangements is a wonderful thing. It ‘allows the internal affairs of each corporation to be tailored to its own attributes and qualities, including its...

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  • Financial Regulation
20 Mar 2017

Initial Public Offering: A Synthesis of the Literature and Directions for Future Research

Michelle Lowry | Roni Michaely | Ekaterina Volkova

The fewer numbers of companies going public in recent years has raised many questions regarding the IPO process, in both academic and regulatory circles. As we all strive to understand these changes...

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  • Financial Regulation
19 Mar 2017

A New Era for the UK's Capital Markets? FCA Publishes Proposals to Reform the UK's Capital Markets and IPO Process

Hogan Lovells

The FCA has published various proposals to reshape and enhance the UK's primary markets. The publications form a key part of the FCA's wider work on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the...

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19 Aug 2016

Are Sponsors of Hong Kong IPOs Subject to Prospectus Law Liability?

Syren Johnstone | Antonio Da Roza | Nigel Davis

After a series of public consultations, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (‘SFC’) has stated its view that sponsors of initial public offerings (‘IPO’s’) are subject to criminal...

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