Corporate Law & Securities

John C. Coates, IV, Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Activity: What Effect Will Citizens United Have on Shareholder Wealth? (Sept. 21, 2010).

John C. Coates, IV, Clayton S. Rose & David Lane, In a Pickle: Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods (C) (Harv. Bus.

John C. Coates, IV, Explaining Variation in Takeover Defenses: Failure in the Corporate Law Market (June 26, 2000).

John C. Coates, Reforming the Taxation and Regulation of Mutual Funds: A Comparative Legal And Economic Analysis, 1 J. Legal Analysis 591 (2009).

Additional Discussion of H.R. 5175, the DISCLOSE Act, Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections: Hearing on H.R. 5175 Before the H.

John C. Coates, IV, The Powerful and Pervasive Effects of Ownership on M&A (June 1, 2010).

Examining Investor Risks in Capital Raising, Hearing on S. 1824, S. 1831, S. 1933 and S. 1970 Before the Subcomm. on Securities, Insurance, and Investment…

John C. Coates, IV, Allocating Risk Through Contract: Evidence from M&A and Policy Implications (Aug. 22, 2012).

John C. Coates, IV, Securities Litigation in the Roberts Court: An Early Assessment, 57 Ariz. L. Rev. 1 (2015).

John C. Coates, IV, Corporate Speech & the First Amendment: History, Data, and Implications, 30 Const. Comment. 223 (2015).

John C. Coates, The Volcker Rule as Structural Law: Implications for Cost-Benefit Analysis and Administrative Law, 10 Cap. Mkt. L.J. 447 (2015).

John C. Coates, IV, M & A Contracts: Purposes, Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice, in Research Handbook on Mergers and Acquisitions (Steven Davidoff Solomon…

John C. Coates, Why Have M&A Contracts Grown? Evidence from Twenty Years of Deals (Harvard Law Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. for Law, Econ. &…

John C. Coates & Taylor Lincoln, Fulfilling Kennedy’s Promise: Why the SEC Should Mandate Disclosure of Corporate Political Activity (July 27, 2011).

John C. Coates, IV, Clayton S. Rose & David Lane, In a Pickle: Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods (A) (Harv. Bus.

John C. Coates, IV, Clayton S. Rose & David Lane, In a Pickle: Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods (B) (Harv. Bus.

John C. Coates & Reinier Kraakman, CEO Tenure, Performance and Turnover in S&P 500 Companies (John M. Olin Ctr. for Law, Econ., & Bus. Discussion…

John C. Coates, The Contestability of Corporate Control: A Critique of the Scientific Evidence on Takeover Defenses, 79 Texas L. Rev. 271 (2000).

John C. Coates, Measuring the Domain of Mediating Hierarchy: How Contestable are U.S. Public Corporations?, 24 J. Corp. L. 837 (1999).

John C. Coates, M&A Break Fees: U.S. Litigation Versus UK Regulation, in Regulation versus Litigation: Perspectives from Economics and Law 239 (Daniel P. Kessler ed.,…

John C. Coates, Managing Disputes Through Contract: Evidence from M&A, 2 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. 295 (2012).