John C. Coates, IV

Harvard Law School

John F. Cogan Professor of Law and Economics

1575 Massachusetts

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European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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1.

The Future of Corporate Governance Part I: The Problem of Twelve

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 19-07
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2019
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Index Funds, Indexation, Corporate Governance, Passive Investment

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What Courses Should Law Students Take? Harvard's Largest Employers Weigh In

HLS Program on the Legal Profession Research Paper No. 2014-12, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 14-20
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2014
John C. Coates IV, Jesse M. Fried and Kathryn E. Spier
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard University - Law School - Faculty
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legal education, accounting, finance, law firms, legal practice, corporate finance, legal profession

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SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review

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SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 758
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 23 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 29 May 2014
John C. Coates IV and Suraj Srinivasan
Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
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SOX, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Regulation, Fraud

SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review

Accounting Horizons, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 17 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 14 May 2015
John C. Coates IV and Suraj Srinivasan
Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
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SOX, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Regulation, Fraud, Cost Benefit Analysis, Section 404, PCAOB, SEC

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The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence, and Policy

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The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence, and Policy

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 54, pp. 887-951, 2002, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 353
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 18 Mar 2002 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk, John C. Coates IV and Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
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Takeover, mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, takeover bids, defensive tactics, staggered boards, poison pills

The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence and Policy

NBER Working Paper No. w8974
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 30 May 2002 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2022
Lucian A. Bebchuk, John C. Coates IV and Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
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Corporate Speech and the First Amendment: History, Data, and Implications

Constitutional Commentary, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 14 May 2015
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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First Amendment, corporations, Court of Appeals, Virginia Pharmacy, Bellotti, Central Hudson

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation: Case Studies and Implications

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation: Case Studies and Implications

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 234/2014, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 14-05, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 757
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 08 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2015
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Cost-benefit analysis, financial regulation, nonquantifiable benefits, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities and Futures Trading Commission, discounting, Basel III, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, securities regulation, consumer finance, mutual funds, Volcker Rule

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation: Case Studies and Implications

Yale Law Journal, Forthcoming, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 14-33
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 15 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 14 May 2015
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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CBA, CBA law, disclosure rules, mutual fund government reforms, capital requirements for banks, Bolcker Rule, cross-border swap proposals, mortgage reforms

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CEO Tenure, Performance and Turnover in S&P 500 Companies

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 191/2007, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 595
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 22 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2019
John C. Coates IV and Reinier Kraakman
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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CEO tenure, CEO turnover, acquisitions, retirement, CEO shareholdings, S&P 500 companies

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SPAC Law and Myths

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2022
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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SPACs, IPOs, law, securities, finance, asset pricing, regulation

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M&A Contracts: Purposes, Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice

Research Handbook on Mergers and Acquisitions, Forthcoming, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 292/2015
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 12 May 2015
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Mergers, acquisitions, contracts, M&A, deal contracts, regulation

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Allocating Risk Through Contract: Evidence from M&A and Policy Implications

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 22 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2015
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Ownership, Takeovers and EU Law: How Contestable Should EU Corporations Be?

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 11/2003; Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 450
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Jul 2003
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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takeover regulation, ownership structure, voting rights, private benefits of control, corporate control

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Corporate Politics, Governance, and Value Before and After Citizens United

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Corporate Politics, Governance, and Value Before and After Citizens United

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 13 Aug 2012
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Corporate Politics, Governance, and Value Before and After Citizens United

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 17 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 29 Feb 2012
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Corporate Politics, Governance, and Value Before and After Citizens United

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2012
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Competition in the Mutual Fund Industry: Evidence and Implications for Policy

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 592
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 13 Aug 2007
John C. Coates IV and R. Glenn Hubbard
Harvard Law School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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mutual funds, investment companies, shareholder litigation, advisory fees

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Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Activity: What Effect Will Citizens United Have on Shareholder Wealth?

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Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Activity: What Effect Will Citizens United Have on Shareholder Wealth?

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 684
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2010
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Activity: What Effect Will Citizens United Have on Shareholder Wealth?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 09 Jul 2011
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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The Powerful and Pervasive Effects of Ownership on M&A

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The Powerful and Pervasive Effects of Ownership on M&A

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 669
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2010
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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The Powerful and Pervasive Effects of Ownership on M&A

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Jul 2011
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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ownership, mergers, acquisitions, law, forum selection, risk-allocation

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Explaining Variation in Takeover Defenses: Failure in the Corporate Law Market

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 297
Number of pages: 121 Posted: 12 Sep 2000
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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The Contestability of Corporate Control: A Critique of the Scientific Evidence on Takeover Defenses

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 265
Number of pages: 110 Posted: 11 Aug 1999
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Further Findings and a Reply to Symposium Participants

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 55, pp. 885-917, 2002, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 393
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 Dec 2002 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk, John C. Coates IV and Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
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Takeover, mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, takeover bids, defensive tactics, staggered boards, poison pills, premia, independent directors

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Managing Disputes Through Contract: Evidence from M&A

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Managing Disputes Through Contract: Evidence from M&A

Harvard Business Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2012
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Managing Disputes Through Contract: Evidence from M&A

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2012
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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M&A Break Fees: US Litigation vs. UK Regulation

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-57
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2010
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Why Have M&A Contracts Grown? Evidence from Twenty Years of Deals

Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 889, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 333/2016
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 02 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2016
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Merger; Acquisition; Contract; Contract Evolution; Legal Services; Agency

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Hiring Teams, Firms and Lawyers: Evidence of the Evolving Relationships in the Corporate Legal Market

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Hiring Teams, Firms and Lawyers: Evidence of the Evolving Relationships in the Corporate Legal Market

Law and Social Inquiry, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 06 May 2011
John C. Coates IV, Michele Beardslee DeStefano, David B. Wilkins and Ashish Nanda
Harvard Law School, University of Miami - School of Law, Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Harvard Law School
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Hiring Teams from Rivals: Theory and Evidence on the Evolving Relationships in the Corporate Legal Market

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 03 Aug 2009
Michele Beardslee DeStefano, Ashish Nanda, David B. Wilkins and John C. Coates IV
University of Miami - School of Law, Harvard Law School, Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Harvard Law School
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Reforming the Taxation and Regulation of Mutual Funds: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis

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Reforming the Taxation and Regulation of Mutual Funds: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 08 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2009
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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mutual funds, investment companies, shareholder litigation, taxation, mutual fund taxation, regulation, securities regulation

Reforming the Taxation and Regulation of Mutual Funds: A Comparative Legal And Economic Analysis

The Journal of Legal Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 591-689, Summer 2009, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-53
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 28 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2009
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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reform, taxation, regulation, mutual funds, investments, SEC, Coates

Reforming the Taxation and Regulation of Mutual Funds: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis

The Journal of Legal Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 591, 2009
Posted: 21 Sep 2009
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School

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A Buy-Side Model of Lockups: Theory and Evidence

Harvard Law School, Law-Econ Discussion Paper No. 274
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 03 Feb 2000
John C. Coates IV and Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
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Are M&A Contract Clauses Value Relevant to Bidder and Target Shareholders?

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2019
John C. Coates IV, Darius Palia and Ge Wu
Harvard Law School, Rutgers University, Newark, School of Business-Newark, Department of Finance & Economics and University of Richmond
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Merger clauses, mergers and acquisitions

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The Trouble with Staggered Boards: A Reply to Georgeson's John Wilcox

Corporate Governance Advisor, Vol. 11, pp. 17-19, 2003, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 410, February 2003
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 03 Mar 2003 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk, John C. Coates IV and Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
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Takeover, mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, takeover bids, defensive tactics, staggered boards, poison pills, premia, independent directors

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Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 19 Corporate Law Professors, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, No. 14-915

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Nov 2015
John C. Coates IV, Lucian A. Bebchuk, Bernard S. Black, John C. Coffee, James D. Cox, Ronald J. Gilson, Jeffrey N. Gordon, Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Henry Hansmann, Robert J. Jackson Jr., Marcel Kahan, Vikramaditya S. Khanna, Michael Klausner, Reinier Kraakman, Donald C. Langevoort, Brian JM Quinn, Edward B. Rock, Mark J. Roe and Helen S. Scott
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Columbia Law School, Duke University School of Law, Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School, Widener University Delaware Law School, Yale University - Law School, New York University School of Law, New York University School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, BC Law School, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School and New York University (NYU)
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corporate politics, union politics, First Amendment, shareholder rights, corporate speech

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Reverse Termination Fees in M&A

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2018
John C. Coates IV, Darius Palia and Ge Wu
Harvard Law School, Rutgers University, Newark, School of Business-Newark, Department of Finance & Economics and University of Richmond
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Merger, Acquisition, Break Fee, Reverse Break Fee, Reverse Termination Fee, Contract

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The Volcker Rule as Structural Law: Implications for Cost-Benefit Analysis and Administrative Law

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 299/2015
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 11 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2015
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Volcker, Volcker Rule, Dodd-Frank Act, structural law, cost-benefit analysis, administrative law, financial regulation, banking, banking law

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Lowering the Cost of Bank Recapitalization

Yale Journal of Regulation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 25 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 25 May 2015
John C. Coates IV and David S. Scharfstein
Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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Bailout, banks, bank holding companies, TARP, workout, bankruptcy, bank regulation, solvency, restructuring, rights offering, recapitalization, bridge bank, open bank assistance

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Testimony of John C. Coates IV Before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment on Proposed Securities Law Reforms

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2011
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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The Link Between the Acquisitions Market and the Market for CEOs

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2011
John C. Coates IV and Reinier Kraakman
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 22 Corporate Law Professors, Mark Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et aL, No. 16-1466

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Jan 2018
John C. Coates IV, Lucian A. Bebchuk, John C. Coffee, Bernard S. Black, Lawrence A. Hamermesh, James D. Cox, Marcel Kahan, Reinier Kraakman, Jeffrey N. Gordon, Ronald J. Gilson, Vikramaditya S. Khanna, Michael Klausner, Henry Hansmann, Donald C. Langevoort, Brian JM Quinn, Michal Barzuza, Mira Ganor, Edward B. Rock, Mark J. Roe, Helen S. Scott, Holger Spamann, Randall S. Thomas and Randall S. Thomas
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School, Duke University School of Law, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Stanford Law School, University of Michigan Law School, Stanford Law School, Yale University - Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, BC Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School, New York University (NYU), Harvard Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
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corporate politics, union politics, First Amendment, shareholder rights, corporate speech

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Towards Better Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Essay on Regulatory Management

Law and Contemporary Problems, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Jul 2014
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Cost-benefit analysis, financial regulation, Dodd-Frank Act, administrative law, governance, disclosure, regulatory design, agency culture

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Securities Litigation in the Roberts Court: An Early Assessment

Arizona Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 14 May 2015
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Roberts Court, securities law, securities litigation

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Testimony of John C. Coates IV Before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment on Proposed Corporate Governance Reforms

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-56
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2011
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Fulfilling Kennedy’s Promise: Why the SEC Should Mandate Disclosure of Corporate Political Activity

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Sep 2011
John C. Coates IV and Taylor Lincoln
Harvard Law School and Public Citizen Congress Watch Division
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Testimony of John C. Coates IV Before the U.S. House Committee on House Administration on the DISCLOSE Act (H.R. 5175)

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 12 May 2010 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2011
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Quantifying Institutional Block Ownership, Domestic and Foreign, at Publicly Traded U.S. Corporations

Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 888
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2016
John C. Coates IV, Ronald Fein, Kevin Crenny and Li Wei Vivian Dong
Harvard Law School, Free Speech For People, Harvard University, Law School, Students and Harvard University, Law School, Students
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Ownership, institutional ownership, foreign ownership, corporate governance, blockholders

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The Downside of Judicial Restraint: The (Non-)Effect of Jones V. Harris

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Vol. 6, 2010
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 28 Oct 2010
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Index, index fund, governance, corporate governance, securities regulation

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The Keynote Papers and the Current Financial Crisis

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Apr 2009
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School
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Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring: Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice

Forthcoming in Oxford Handbook on Corporate Law and Governance
Posted: 08 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2014
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School

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Mergers, Acquisitions, Restructuring, Corporate Law and Governance, Corporate Law, Securities Law, Listing Standards, Antitrust and Foreign Investment Law

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In a Pickle: Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods (A)

Harvard Business School General Management Unit Case No. 312-003
Posted: 04 Feb 2012
John C. Coates IV, Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
Harvard Law School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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In a Pickle: Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods (B)

Harvard Business School General Management Unit Case No. 312-004
Posted: 04 Feb 2012
John C. Coates IV, Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
Harvard Law School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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In a Pickle: Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods (C)

Harvard Business School General Management Unit Case No. 312-005
Posted: 04 Feb 2012
John C. Coates IV, Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
Harvard Law School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Explaining Variation in Takeover Defenses: Blame the Lawyers

Harvard Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 30
Posted: 26 Mar 2002
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School

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A Buy-Side Model of M&A Lockups: Theory and Evidence

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 2, November 2000
Posted: 19 Apr 2001
John C. Coates IV and Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School

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lockup, merger, acquisition

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Takeover Defenses in the Shadow of the Pill: A Critique of the Scientific Evidence

Texas Law Review, Vol. 79, No. 2, December 2000
Posted: 19 Apr 2001
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School

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poison pill, takeover defense, hostile takeover, staggered board

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Measuring the Domain of Mediating Hierarchy: How Contestable are Us Public Corporations?

Journal of Corporation Law, 1999
Posted: 01 Sep 1999
John C. Coates IV
Harvard Law School

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