Corporate Law & Securities

John Coates, SEC Speaks on Accounting and Reporting Considerations for SPAC Warrants, CLS Blue Sky Blog (Apr. 13, 2021).

John Coates, Keeping Pace with ESG Disclosure Developments Affecting Investors, Public Companies and the Capital Markets, Insights: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, Apr. 2021,…

John Coates, SPACs, IPOs, and Liability Risk Under the Securities Laws, CLS Blue Sky Blog (Apr. 12, 2021).

John C. Coates, Darius Palia & Ge Wu, Are M&A Contract Clauses Value Relevant to Bidder and Target Shareholders? (June 2019).

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

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

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

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

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