Corporate Law & Securities

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).

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.

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,…

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

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

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).