Guhan Subramanian

Harvard Business School

Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law

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1.

Oracle V. Peoplesoft: A Case Study

Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Oct 2005
David Millstone and Guhan Subramanian
Independent and Harvard Business School
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Takeovers, Oracle, PeopleSoft, poison pill, takeover defense

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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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Bargaining in the Shadow of Takeover Defenses

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 113, Issue 3, pp. 621-686, December 2003
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 16 Nov 2011
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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takeover, negotiated acquisitions, mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, takeover defenses, defensive tactics, staggered boards, poison pills, premia

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Go-Shops vs. No-Shops in Private Equity Deals: Evidence and Implications

Business Lawyer, May 2008, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-09
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2015
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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Revlon duties, takeovers, private equity, going-private transactions

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Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge

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Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge

Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 11-052, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 11-052, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 685
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 14 Mar 2012
Bo Becker, Daniel Bergstresser and Guhan Subramanian
Stockholm School of Economics, Brandeis International Business School and Harvard Business School
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Shareholder proxy access, Corporate governance

Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge

NBER Working Paper No. w17797
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2023
Bo Becker, Daniel Bergstresser and Guhan Subramanian
Stockholm School of Economics, Brandeis International Business School and Harvard Business 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
Downloads 1,218 (33,585)
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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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Using the Deal Price for Determining ‘Fair Value’ in Appraisal Proceedings

Forthcoming, The Corporate Contract in Changing Times: Is the Law Keeping Up? (U. Chicago Press) (2017)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Feb 2017
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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mergers & acquisitions, appraisal, Delaware, corporate law

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Post-Siliconix Freeze-Outs: Theory, Evidence & Policy

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Apr 2005
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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Freeze-outs, going private, Siliconix, parent-subsidiary mergers

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Deals in the Time of Pandemic

Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 08 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2021
Guhan Subramanian and Caley Petrucci
Harvard Business School and University of San Diego School of Law
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takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, COVID-19, material adverse effect

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Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Evidence from 1988-2008

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 21 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2010
Guhan Subramanian, Steven Herscovici and Brian Barbetta
Harvard Business School, The Brattle Group and Analysis Group, Inc.
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hostile takeovers, tender offers, corporate law, Delaware, defensive tactics, poison pills

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The New Look of Deal Protection

Stanford Law Review 69 (2017), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Aug 2016
Fernan Restrepo and Guhan Subramanian
University of California - Los Angeles and Harvard Business School
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Fixing Freezeouts

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, No. 1, 2005
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 16 Nov 2011
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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Freeze-outs, Squeeze-outs, Controlling shareholders, Takeovers, Tender offers

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The Influence of Antitakeover Statutes on Incorporation Choice: Evidence on the "Race" Debate and Antitakeover Overreaching

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 04 Dec 2001
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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Go-Shops Revisited

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Feb 2019
Guhan Subramanian and Annie Zhao
Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
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Go-Shops, Mergers & Acquisitions, Takeovers, Private Equity, Corporate Law

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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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Stakeholder Amnesia in M&A Deals

Journal of Corporation Law, Volume 50 (forthcoming 2024)
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 09 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2024
Caley Petrucci and Guhan Subramanian
University of San Diego School of Law and Harvard Business School
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stakeholder governance, ESG, environmental, social, governance, stakeholders, stakeholder capitalism, shareholder, shareholder primacy, corporate social responsibility, corporate purpose, Twitter, Elon Musk, M&A, deals, dealmaking, mergers, acquisitions, transactions, corporate law, SEC, climate, diversity, employees, boards, board of directors, directors JEL Classification: D21, G32, G34, G38, K22

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The Drivers of Market Efficiency in Revlon Transactions

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The Drivers of Market Efficiency in Revlon Transactions

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Mar 2003
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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Takeovers, lockups, mergers and acquisitions, Revlon, market efficiency

The Drivers of Market Efficiency in Revlon Transactions

Journal of Corporation Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 Nov 2003
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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Takeovers, lockups, mergers and acquisitions, Revlon, market efficiency

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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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The Effect of Delaware Doctrine on Freezeout Structure and Outcomes: Evidence on the Unified Approach

Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 153
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 24 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2013
Fernan Restrepo and Guhan Subramanian
University of California - Los Angeles and Harvard Business School
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Appraisal After Dell

The Corporate Contract in Changing Times: Is the Law Keeping Up? (U. Chicago Press) (2018 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Jan 2018
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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mergers & acquisitions, appraisal, Delaware, corporate law

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The Disappearing Delaware Effect

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The Disappearing Delaware Effect

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Dec 2002
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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Delaware, Takeovers, Mergers & Acquisitions

The Disappearing Delaware Effect

The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 32-59, 2004
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School

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The Disappearing Delaware Effect

Posted: 28 Oct 2003
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School

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The Effect of Prohibiting Deal Protection in M&A: Evidence from the United Kingdom

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2016
Fernan Restrepo and Guhan Subramanian
University of California - Los Angeles and Harvard Business School
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Pills in a World of Activism and ESG

The University of Chicago Business Law Review (2022, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 May 2022 Last Revised: 29 May 2022
Caley Petrucci and Guhan Subramanian
University of San Diego School of Law and Harvard Business School
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poison pill, corporate law, shareholder rights plan, ESG, Easterbrook, Fischel, law & economics, acting in concert, activism, activist

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Placing Election Bylaws on the Corporate Ballot

Harvard PON Working Paper No. 915403
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 10 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 07 May 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Allen Ferrell, Reinier Kraakman, Mark J. Roe and Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
Downloads 428 (132,006)
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Corporate elections, shareholder voting, proxy contests, access to the ballot, by-laws, by-law amendments, proxy fights, proxy contests, corporate governance, agency costs

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Delaware's Choice

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Delaware's Choice

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 17 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2014
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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takeovers, Section 203, staggered boards

Delaware's Choice

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Vol. 39, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 18 Aug 2014
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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Delaware, Journal, Corporate, Law, Guhan, Subramanian, Ineffective, Staggered, Boards, Section 203

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Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 05 Dec 2015
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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management buyouts, Revlon duties, takeovers, private equity

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Redemption Mechanisms in Poison Pills: Evidence on Pill Design and Law Firm Effects

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 14 Aug 2023
Olivier Baum and Guhan Subramanian
Harvard University - Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
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poison pill, shareholder rights plan, redemption, trip wire, last look, preferred shares, pill design, law firm effect

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Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Further Analysis and a Reply to Symposium Commentators

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 25 May 2010
Guhan Subramanian, Steven Herscovici and Brian Barbetta
Harvard Business School, The Brattle Group and Analysis Group, Inc.
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Hostile Takeovers, Tender Offers, Corporate Law, Delaware, Defensive Tactics, Poison Pills

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Delaware's Choice: A Brief Reply to Commentators

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Vol. 39, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 18 Aug 2014
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School
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Delaware, Journal, Corporate, Law, Subramanian, Guhan, Delaware's Choice, Section 203

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Non-Corporate Freezeouts: Theory and Evidence

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Jul 2024
Fernan Restrepo and Guhan Subramanian
University of California - Los Angeles and Harvard Business School
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Freezeouts, Duty of loyalty, Entire fairness

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Freezeouts of Cross-Listed Issuers

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 May 2024
Fernan Restrepo and Guhan Subramanian
University of California - Los Angeles and Harvard Business School
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Freezeouts, Cross-Listed Issuers

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The K-Dow Petrochemicals Joint Venture

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Case No. 912-002
Posted: 04 Feb 2012
Guhan Subramanian, James K. Sebenius, Phillip Andrews and Rhea Ghosh
Harvard Business School, HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Bargaining in the Shadow of PeopleSoft's (Defective) Poison Pill

Harvard Negotiation Law Review, 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 568, Harvard PON Working Paper No. 932565
Posted: 16 Nov 2011
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Business School

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hostile takeover, Oracle, PeopleSoft, poison pill

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Bank of America-Merrill Lynch

HBS Case No. 910-026, Harvard Business School NOM Unit
Posted: 02 Jun 2010
Guhan Subramanian and Nithyasri Sharma
Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School

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Citigroup-Wachovia-Wells Fargo

HBS Case No. 910-006, Harvard Business School NOM Unit
Posted: 14 Oct 2009
Guhan Subramanian and Nithyasri Sharma
Harvard Business School and Harvard Business 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