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Yifat Aran

University of Haifa - Faculty of Law

Mount Carmel

Haifa, 31905

Israel

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (11)

1.

Ousted

Yifat Aran & Elizabeth Pollman, Ousted, 25 Theoretical Inquiries L. 231 (2024), Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 25, p. 231. 2024, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 740/2023, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 23-40
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2024
Yifat Aran and Elizabeth Pollman
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Co-Director, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - Institute for Law and Economics; European Corporate Governance Institute
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Founders, CEOs, controlling shareholder, dual-class stock, multi-class stock, high-voting, sunset, CEO turnover, ouster, startups, venture capital, corporate governance, capital structure, IPOs, agency costs, margin loans, technology industry, shareholder activism, ownership, control

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The Effect of Specialised Courts over Time

Time, Law and Change: An Interdisciplinary Study (Ranchordas S. and Roznai Y. eds.), Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2020
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2019
Yifat Aran and Moran Ofir
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law and University of Haifa
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specialized courts, specialization, empirical, class action, derivative action, Israel, litigation

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CEO Turnover at Dual-Class Firms

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 24-38, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 5063277, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 839/2025, The Journal of Legal Studies, forthcoming 
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 18 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2026
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law, Vanderbilt University - Law School and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Co-Director, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - Institute for Law and Economics; European Corporate Governance Institute
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Dual-Class, Sunset Provisions, Startups, Venture Capital, Initial Public Offering (IPO), Founder Control, CEO Turnover, Controlling Shareholder, Corporate Governance

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Beyond Covenants Not to Compete: Equilibrium in High-Tech Startup Labor Markets

Stanford Law Review, April 2018
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 06 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 19 May 2018
Yifat Aran
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Venture Capital, Private Placements, Equity Compensation, Securities Regulation, Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, Non-competes, Trade secrets, Intellectual Property, Incentives, Competition Law, Stock Options, IPO

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Due Diligence Dilemma

The University of Illinois Law Review Vol. 2025, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 849/2025
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 30 May 2025 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2025
Yifat Aran and Nizan Geslevich Packin
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law and City University of New York (CUNY) - Department of Law
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Venture Capital, Due Diligence, Startups, Securities Regulation, Fiduciary Duty, Securities Fraud, Corporate Governance, Gatekeeping, Compliance

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Making Disclosure Work for Start-Up Employees

Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2019, No. 3, 2019
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 13 Dec 2019
Yifat Aran
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 374 (201,412)
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disclosure, unicorn firms, entrepreneurship, securities regulation, SEC, corporate law, employees, stock option, equity

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The RSU Time Bomb: Regulating Startup Equity Compensation in the Unicorn Era

Research Handbook on the Structure of Private Equity and Venture Capital (Broughman & de Fontenay eds., forthcoming Elgar Publishing 2024)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Nov 2023
Yifat Aran
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Equity Compensation, RSUs, Restricted Stock Units, Stock Options, Startups, IPO, Venture Capital, Employee Ownership, Startup Taxation, Securities Regulation, Capital Market Dynamics, Deregulation, Risk Allocation, Comparative Law, Israel

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From Delaware to Israel: Evaluating Israel's Quasi Experiment of a Specialized Corporate Court

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 19 Jun 2015
Yifat Aran
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 336 (225,768)
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specialized courts, specialization, empirical, class action, derivative action, Israel, litigation

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Equity Illusions

The Journal of Law Economics and Organization
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 28 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2023
Yifat Aran and Raviv Murciano-Goroff
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law and Boston University
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startup, venture capital, options, equity, compensation, behavioral economics, behavioral finance, entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurship, employees

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דיני חברות הזנק
The Start-up Law of the Start-up Nation

משפטים נג 115 (תשפ״ד)
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 14 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2025
Yifat Aran
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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הון סיכון, ליטיגציה, יזמות, ישראל, חברות הזנק, סטרטאפ, הסכמי איסור תחרות

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Let it Go: A Comparative Perspective on the Enforceability of Pay-to-Play Provisions
מה שהיה - תשכח מזה: אכיפת תניות פיי-טו-פליי בישראל

50 Iyunei Mishpat - Tel-Aviv University Law Review __ (forthcoming 2026)
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 30 Jul 2025 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2026
Gad Weiss, Kobi Ben Chitrit and Yifat Aran
University of San Diego School of Law, Arnon, Tadmor-Levy and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Startups, Venture Capital, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship