Last class, on October 25, we had Valerie Mann talk to us about venture funds and how a startup can obtain funding. I came across this company called Abridge that is an app that uses AI to summarize patient notes to help medical professionals with their administrative and clerical work. Founded in 2018, this app […]

Boar’s Head, a supplier of delicatessen meats, cheeses and condiments, is also a company so secretive that its chief financial officer admitted under oath he did not know who the chief executive officer was, has been dragged into public view due to a deadly listeria outbreak that killed 10 people and hospitalized dozens more. Founded […]

Please read and come prepared with questions on Friday November 8. download the PDF by clicking on the link through the image below…    

Hello Everyone, I recently came across the news of Tom Brady acquiring a minority stake in the Las Vegas Raiders as a limited partner in the franchise along with his business partner Tom Wagner for $220 million. 1 Under the limited partnership scheme, Brady is likely to have limited control over day-to-day operations but is […]

Am excited to be teaching this course again. BizOrgs is a subject with multiple personalities. On one hand it merely deals with a set of tools – a fairly musty set of open-ended lego-like pieces that corporate frameworks are built from. On the other hand, the frameworks built from those pieces are often massive flashpoints […]

One thing I mentioned towards the end of the course was that someday I wanted to do a post reviewing the corporate law aspects of the 1990 Julia Roberts/Richard Gere film movie “Pretty Woman”. “Pretty Woman” is mostly awful, especially when watched from the vantage point of 2019. Leaving aside the myriad blatant instances of […]

When I saw the article you can link to above, memories certainly came flooding back.  I had no idea what to expect when trying to give a corporate law lecture by inventing/using memes tailored to the purpose. After the fact it certainly felt like a “love it or hate it” event (possibly more the latter). […]

I am glad to be able to say that my perception of corporate personhood that I had coming into this course has been reshaped radically through learning about the complexities inherent in corporate governance. Better understanding the tensions between different key actors such as directors, shareholders, and management, has helped me surpass my formerly simplistic notion […]