John C. Coates

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).

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).

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, John D. Dionne & David S. Scharfstein, GE Capital After the Crisis (Harvard Bus. Sch. Case 217-071, Apr. 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 & David S. Scharfstein, The Bailout is Robbing the Banks, N.Y. Times, Feb. 18, 2009, at A27.

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, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation: A Reply, 124 Yale L.J. F. 305 (Jan. 22, 2015).

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,…

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, 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).

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, Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring: Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice, in The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (Jeffrey N. Gordon…

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

John C. Coates, IV, Towards Better Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Essay on Regulatory Management, 78 Law & Contemp. Probs. 1 (2015).

John C. Coates, IV, Corporate Speech & the First Amendment: History, Data, and Implications, 30 Const. Comment. 223 (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, The Volcker Rule as Structural Law: Implications for Cost-Benefit Analysis and Administrative Law, 10 Cap. Mkt. L.J. 447 (2015).

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 & David Scharfstein, Lowering the Cost of Bank Recapitalization, 26 Yale J. on Reg. 373 (2009).