Casimiro Antonio Nigro

University of Leeds School of Law

Liberty Building

Belle Vue Road

Leeds, LS2 9JT

Goethe Universität, DFG Center for Advanced Studies - Foundations of Law & Finance (LawFin)

Assistant Professor

Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 3

House of Finance

Frankfurt am Main, Hessen 60323

Germany

Luiss Guido Carli University - Department of Law

Researcher

Viale Romania 32

Rome (Italy), RM 00197

Italy

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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“  My research focuses on corporate law as a determinant of VC contracting and investments and, more broadly speaking, on how existing legal regimes affect the matching of entrepreneurial ideas and financial and human capital.  ”

Scholarly Papers (9)

1.

Conflicting Fiduciary Duties and Fire Sales of VC-backed Start-ups

LawFin Working Paper No. 35
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 20 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
Bo Bian, Yingxiang Li and Casimiro Antonio Nigro
University of British Columbia, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and University of Leeds School of Law
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Corporate Law, Fiduciary Duties, Fire Sales, Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital

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Venture Capital-Backed Firms, Unavoidable Value-Destroying Trade Sales, and Fair Value Protections

22 Eur Bus Org Law Rev 39 (2021), LawFin Working Paper No. 1
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2022
Casimiro Antonio Nigro and Jörg Stahl
University of Leeds School of Law and Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics
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Private equity; Venture capital; Start-ups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Corporate governance; Private ordering; Drag-along rights; Trade sales; Corporate law; Fair value; Appraisal rights; Law and economics; Law and finance

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Hedge Funds Regulation in the US: From the Near-Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management to the Dodd-Frank Act 2010

Vittorio Santoro (ed.), La crisi dei mercati finanziari: analisi e prospettive. Vol. 1, MIlano, 2012, pp.LLIX-512
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 26 Mar 2013
Casimiro Antonio Nigro and Giovanni Romano
University of Leeds School of Law and University of Siena, Faculty of Economics
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Alternative Investments, Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFM), Financial Regulatory Reforms, Global Financial Crisis, Hedge Funds’ Regulation, Dodd-Frank Act, Systemic Risk, Retailization

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CoCos in Europe: What Is Wrong – and How to Fix It?

European Banking Institute Working Paper Series no. 169, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2024-18, Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2024-09
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 13 May 2024
Edoardo D. Martino, Casimiro Antonio Nigro and Tom Vos
University of Amsterdam - University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law, University of Leeds School of Law and University of Antwerp
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Contingent Convertibles; Financial Stability; Early Intervention; Contractual Design

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Venture Capital; Private Equity; Appraisal Right; Fair Value; Fiduciary Duties; Duty of Loyalty; Good Faith; Drag-along;

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Private equity, fusioni e rinuncia all’appraisal right: note su un caso statunitense con cenni all'esperienza italiana (Private Equity, Mergers, and Appraisal Right Waivers: US Law versus Italian Law)

16 Rivista di diritto societario 631-678 (2022)
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2024
Casimiro Antonio Nigro and Demetrio Maltese
University of Leeds School of Law and "A. Sraffa" Department of Law - Bocconi University
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Merger; appraisal right; waiver; shareholder agreement; recesso; patto parasociale

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Convertible Bonds and the Best Price Rule: The Celesio Case

J Grant (Ed), European Takeovers: The Art of Acquisition, London, Globe Law and Business, 2018 (2nd Ed.), pp. 370
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 09 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2019
Tom Kirchmaier, Jeremy Grant and Casimiro Antonio Nigro
London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and University of Leeds School of Law
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Takeovers, Mandatory Bid Rule, Best Price Rule, Circumvention, Tunneling, Tunnelling, Minority Investors Protection, Hedge Fund Activism, Relational Capitalism

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Building an EU Venture Capital Market: What About Corporate Law?

Money Law, Capital, and the Changing Identity of the European Union (eds. Gabriella Gimigliano & Valentino Cattelan) (Hart 2022), pp. 165-178.
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 10 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2024
Casimiro Antonio Nigro and Alperen Gözlügöl
University of Leeds School of Law and London School of Economics - Law School
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corporate law, venture capital, financial contracting, European Union

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Obbligazioni convertibili e corrispettivo dell’Opa volontaria nell’esperienza tedesca (con uno sguardo al diritto italiano (Convertible Bonds and Price-Setting in Voluntary Takeovers Under German Law (With a Look at Italian Law))

15 Rivista di diritto societario 751-786 (2021)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Casimiro Antonio Nigro and Peter Agstner
University of Leeds School of Law and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Faculty of Economics and Management
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Takeover; price; convertible bonds; derivatives; private enforcement