Table of Contents

 

1. 

Economic and Legal Aspects of the Firm

2. 

Partnerships

3. 

The Corporate Form and the Specialized Roles of Shareholders, Directors, and Officers

4. 

Fiduciary Duty, Shareholder Litigation, and the Business Judgment Rule

5. 

Protecting Participants' Expectations in Closely Held Corporations: Corporations and LLCs

6. 

The Corporation as a Device to Allocate Risk

7. 

Mergers and Other "Friendly" Control Transactions

8. 

Changes in Control: Hostile Acquisitions

9. 

Disclosure and Corporate Governance

 

·         In the Matter of Informix Corp.

·         Business Roundtable v. SEC

·         J.I. Case Co. v. Borak

·         TSC Industries, Inc v. Northway, Inc.

·         Virginia Bancshares, Inc. v. Sandberg

·         Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co.

·         Wilson v. Great American Industries, Inc.

·         Malone v. Brincat

·         Birnbaum v. Newport Steel Corp.

·         Superintendent of Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co.

·         Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores

·         Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green

·         Basic, Inc. v. Levinson

·         In re Time Warner, Inc. Securities Litigation

·         Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder

·         Novak v. Kaskas

·         Basic, Inc. v. Levinson

·         Dura Pharmaceuticals v. Broudo

·         Green v. Occidental Petroleum Co.

 

10. 

Federal Regulation of Tender Offers

11. 

Insider Trading