Corporate Law & Securities

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

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, 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.,…

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

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

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

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

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, Ownership, Takeovers and EU Law: How Contestable Should EU Corporations Be?, in Reforming Company and Takeover Law in Europe 677 (Guido Ferrarini,…

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…

John C. Coates, The Downside of Judicial Restraint: The (Non-)Effect of Jones v. Harris, 6 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y 58 (2010).

John C. Coates, IV & Reinier Kraakman, The Link Between the Acquisitions Market and the Market for CEOs (Jan. 12, 2011).