How Many IPOs Should We Have Each Year? How Do You Know? (May 15, 2013)

The titular questions have been swirling in the back of my head for the past month or so. Spoiler alert:... (Category: Finance, IPOs, Securities)

Me on JOBS General Advertising in Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc (May 10, 2013)

Just out today, here's a link to one of my projects for my semester "off": Vanderbilt Law Review asked me... (Category: Conferences, JOBS Act, Securities)

More on Hedge Funds' Director Bonuses (May 04, 2013)

Last month I blogged about DealProf Steven Davidoff's piece on a few cases of hedge funds paying bonuses to their... (Category: Corporate Governance, Hedge Funds)

ATL's Law School Ranking (May 01, 2013)

A perspicacious reader tipped me off that Above the Law has a new top law school list out. A few... (Category: Law Schools/Lawyering, Rankings)

10b5-1 Plans in the News (April 25, 2013)

I vividly remember learning about 10b5-1 plans while in practice: they struck me then as an elegant and sensible way... (Category: Investing, Securities)

Buffett vs. Finance; Arbitration vs. Courts (April 19, 2013)

A little Friday reading: Via CLS Blue Sky Blog, Lawrence Cunningham on the wily Oracle of O vs. Modern Finance... (Category: Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Investing, Takeovers)

Public Benefit Corporation Amendment to DGCL (April 11, 2013)

From the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, via Allen M. Terrell, Jr. of Richards, Layton... (Category: Business Organizations, Delaware, Social Entrepreneurship)

Of Directors and Pay (April 03, 2013)

From yesterday's Deal Professor comes Steven Davidoff on the "newest trend in activist investing": hedge funds incentivizing their directors by... (Category: Corporate Governance, Hedge Funds)

From the "Inevitable File" (April 03, 2013)

You may remember that CEO Reed Hastings ran into trouble last year when he disclosed via his personal Facebook page... (Category: Securities)

Cyprus, Baby! Cyprus! (March 25, 2013)

So I've been fascinated by the Cyprus story, ignorant though I am of many of the details. If you're like... (Category: European Union)

Carlyle Group Opens its Doors to the Masses--the Wealthy Masses (March 13, 2013)

Today's WSJ brings news that private equity giant Carlyle Group is "lowering the velvet rope" : letting some people buy... (Category: Hedge Funds, JOBS Act, Securities)

I think the WSJ could use an obits editor (February 27, 2013)

I learned a lot from yesterday's C. Everett Koop obituary yesterday. Koop, the U.S. surgeon general from 1981-89 was a... (Category: Humor)

Oddities in Administrative Rule-making: The Comment Period (February 21, 2013)

For an upcoming project I've been delving into the public comments of an SEC proposed rule for the first time... (Category: Administrative Law)

Shooting in Wilmington Courthouse (February 11, 2013)

News today of a shooting in the Newcastle County Courthouse, which houses the Chancery Court. I was lucky enough to... (Category: Delaware)

A Luddite Academic's iPad Paean (January 31, 2013)

OK, so I'm more late-adopter than Luddite, but it makes for a pithier title. And late-adopter I am--I broke down... (Category: Productivity, Technology)