Corporate Law & Securities

Legislative Proposals to Examine Corporate Governance, Hearing Before the S. Comm. on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 115 Cong., 2d Sess. (2018) (statement of Professor…

John C. Coates, IV, The Future of Corporate Governance Part I: The Problem of Twelve (Sept. 20, 2018).

John C. Coates, Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring: Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice, in The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance 570 (Jeffrey N.

Darius Palia, John C. Coates, IV & Ge Wu, Are Merger Clauses Value Relevant to Bidder and Target Shareholders? (June 22, 2018).

John C. Coates, IV, Darius Palia & Ge Wu, Reverse Termination Fees in M&A: Design, Signals, and Bidder Returns (Aug. 11, 2017).

John C. Coates, IV, Jesse M. Fried & Kathryn E. Spier, What Courses Should Law Students Take? Harvard’s Largest Employers Weigh In (HLS Program on…

John C. Coates, Freezeouts, Management Buyouts and Going Private, in Takeovers & Freezeouts (Martin Lipton & Erica H. Steinberger eds., 1998).

John C. Coates, Reassessing Risk-Based Capital in the 1990s: Encouraging Consolidation and Productivity, in Bank Mergers and Acquisitions 207 (Yakov Amihud & Geoffrey Miller, eds.,…

John C. Coates, Evidence-based M&A: Less Can Be More When Allocating Risk in Deal Contracts, 27 J. Int’l Banking & Fin. L. 708 (2012).

Erik Ramanathan & John C. Coates, Corporate Purchasing Project: How S&P Companies Evaluate Outside Counsel (Harvard L. Sch. Program on the Legal Profession, 2011).

John C. Coates, State Takeover Statutes and Corporate Theory: The Revival of an Old Debate, 64 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 806 (1989).

John C. Coates, Explaining Variations in Takeover Defenses: Blame the Lawyers, in Law and Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions (Steven M. Davidoff & Claire A.

John C. Coates, Explaining Variation in Takeover Defenses: Blame the Lawyers, in Mergers and the Market for Corporate Control (Fred S. McChesney ed., 2012).

Carol Bowie, John C. Coates, Justice Jack B. Jacobs, Stephen P. Lamb & Theodore N. Mirvis, Corporate Governance After the Financial Crisis, 6 N.Y.U. J.L.

John C. Coates & Taylor Lincoln, Fulfilling the Promise of Citizens United, Wash. Post, Sept. 6, 2011, Opinion.

John C. Coates & Taylor Lincoln, A Campaign Finance Job for the SEC, Wash. Post, Sept. 7, 2011, at A19.

John C. Coates, Private vs. Political Choice of Securities Regulation: A Political Cost/Benefit Analysis, 41 Va. J. Int’l L. 531 (2001).

John C. Coates, Empirical Evidence on Structural Takeover Defenses: Where Do We Stand?, 54 U. Miami L. Rev. 783 (2000).

John C. Coates, IV, Thirty Years of Evolution in the Roles of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance, in Research Handbook on Shareholder Power ch. 4…

John C. Coates, Ronald A. Fein, Kevin P. Crenny & Li Wei Vivian Dong, Quantifying Institutional Block Ownership, Domestic and Foreign, at Publicly Traded U.S.

Protecting Shareholders and Enhancing Public Confidence by Improving Corporate Governance: Hearing Before the S. Subcomm. on Securities, Insurance, and Investment of the S. Comm. on…