The history of corporate governance

BR Cheffins - 2013 - papers.ssrn.com
“Corporate governance” first came into vogue in the 1970s in the United States. Within 25
years corporate governance had become the subject of debate worldwide by academics, …

Does law matter? The separation of ownership and control in the United Kingdom

BR Cheffins - The Journal of Legal Studies, 2001 - journals.uchicago.edu
The corporate world today subdivides into rival systems of dispersed and concentrated
ownership, with different corporate governance structures characterizing each. Various corporate …

Is Berle and Means really a myth?

B Cheffins, S Bank - Business History Review, 2009 - cambridge.org
Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means famously declared in 1932 that a separation of ownership
and control was a hallmark of large US corporations, and their characterization of matters …

Did Corporate Governance" Fail" During the 2008 Stock Market Meltdown? The Case of the S&P 500

BR Cheffins - The Business Lawyer, 2009 - JSTOR
In 2008, share pnces on US stock markets fell further than they had during any one year since
the 1930s. Does this mean corporate governance Jailed?" This Article argues generally "…

Outside director liability

B Black, B Cheffins, M Klausner - Stan. L. Rev., 2005 - HeinOnline
This Article analyzes outside director liability risk empirically, legally, and conceptually.
Concern over liability for outside directors has arisen periodically since the 1970s, typically in …

The eclipse of private equity

B Cheffins, J Armour - Del. J. Corp. L., 2008 - HeinOnline
Private equity, characterized by firms operating as privately held partnerships organizing the
acquisition and" taking private" of public companies, has recently dominated the business …

The stewardship code's achilles' heel

BR Cheffins - The Modern Law Review, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Many concerned about UK corporate governance have urged those who own equity in
listed companies to forsake a traditional bias in favour of passivity and act as responsible, …

[BOOK][B] Company law: theory, structure, and operation

BR Cheffins - 1997 - pravo.hse.ru
Researchers, investors, and policymakers around the world have been focusing increasingly
on corporate governance. 1 There is now widespread recognition that adequate investor …

Corporate ownership and control: British business transformed

BR Cheffins - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
The typical British publicly traded company has widely dispersed share ownership and is run
by professionally trained managers who collectively own an insufficiently large percentage …

The past, present, and future of shareholder activism by hedge funds

BR Cheffins, J Armour - J. Corp. L., 2011 - HeinOnline
The forthright brand of shareholder activism hedge funds deploy emerged by the mid-2000s
as a major corporate governance phenomenon. This Article explains the rise of hedge fund …