Investor Class Actions

Author : Kevin E. Lindgren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Class actions (Civil procedure)
ISBN : 0980334640

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Investor Class Actions by Kevin E. Lindgren Pdf

"Almost every day, the financial press reports something about investor class actions that have been launched or are expected. In the current economic climate, many investors, large and small, have lost a lot of money. Often, sometimes at the instigation of a litigation funder, they identify someone to sue and join forces in a class action. The class action concept has a capacity to arouse passions. It is seen by some as providing access to justice and a means for the efficient handling by a court of numerous claims. Others perceive the class action as a procedure that enables lawyers and litigation funders to make a lot of money. Certainly the class action has given rise to its own set of issues: pleading problems; numerous and protracted interlocutory disputes; problems of proof of causation of loss and the associated US concept of "fraud on the market". This monograph comprises the papers and proceedings of a Conference on "Investor Class Actions" held at the Federal Court on 10 March 2009. The speakers at the Conference were eminently qualified to address the issues mentioned above and others."--Publisher's website.

Author : Warren K. Winkler,Paul M. Perell,Jasminka Kalajdzic,Alison Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Class actions (Civil procedure)
ISBN : 0888047282

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The Law of Class Actions in Canada by Warren K. Winkler,Paul M. Perell,Jasminka Kalajdzic,Alison Warner Pdf

Author : Pierre-Henri Conac,Martin Gelter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1363 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108577427

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Global Securities Litigation and Enforcement by Pierre-Henri Conac,Martin Gelter Pdf

Global Securities Litigation and Enforcement provides a clear and exhaustive description of the national regime for the enforcement of securities legislation in cases of misrepresentation on financial markets. It covers 29 jurisdictions worldwide, some of them are important although their law is not well known. It will be an invaluable resource for academics and students of securities litigation, as well as for lawyers, policy-makers and regulators. The book also provides a comprehensive contribution debate on whether public or private enforcement is preferable in terms of development of securities markets. It will appeal to those interested in the legal origins theory and in comparative securities law, and shows that the classification of jurisdictions within legal families does not explain the differences in legal regimes. While US securities law often serves as a model for international convergence, some of its elements, such as securities class actions, have not been adopted worldwide.

Author : Michael Taillard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118412794

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Corporate Finance For Dummies by Michael Taillard Pdf

Score your highest in corporate finance The math, formulas, and problems associated with corporate finance can be daunting to the uninitiated. Corporate Finance For Dummies introduces you to the practices of determining an operating budget, calculating future cash flow, and scenario analysis in a friendly, un-intimidating way that makes comprehension easy. Corporate Finance For Dummies covers everything you'll encounter in a course on corporate finance, including accounting statements, cash flow, raising and managing capital, choosing investments; managing risk; determining dividends; mergers and acquisitions; and valuation. Serves as an excellent resource to supplement coursework related to corporate finance Gives you the tools and advice you need to understand corporate finance principles and strategies Provides information on the risks and rewards associated with corporate finance and lending With easy-to-understand explanations and examples, Corporate Finance For Dummies is a helpful study guide to accompany your coursework, explaining the tough stuff in a way you can understand.

Author : SHAUN E. FINN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0433516895

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QUEBEC CLASS ACTION by SHAUN E. FINN Pdf

Author : Kip W. Viscusi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 0815798857

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Regulation through Litigation by Kip W. Viscusi Pdf

Recent high-profile lawsuits involving cigarettes, guns, breast implants, and other products have created new frictions between litigation and regulation. Increasingly, litigation is being used as a financial lever to force companies to accept negotiated regulatory policies—policies that invariably involve less public input and accountability than those arising from government regulation. The process not only usurps the traditional governmental authority for regulation, but also shifts the locus of establishing tax policy from the legislature to the parties involved in the litigation. Citizen interests are not explicitly represented and there is no mechanism to ensure that these outcomes are in society's best interests. By focusing on case studies involving the tobacco industry, guns, lead paint, breast implants, and health maintenance organizations, the contributors to this volume collectively shed light on the likely consequences of regulation through litigation for insurance markets and society at large. They analyze the ramifications of large-scale lawsuits, mass torts, and class actions for the insurance market, and advocate increased public scrutiny of attorney reimbursement and a competitive bidding process for all lawsuits involving government entities as the plaintiffs.

Author : David Webber
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674972131

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The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder by David Webber Pdf

When Steven Burd, CEO of the supermarket chain Safeway, cut wages and benefits, starting a five-month strike by 59,000 unionized workers, he was confident he would win. But where traditional labor action failed, a novel approach was more successful. With the aid of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, a $300 billion pension fund, workers led a shareholder revolt that unseated three of Burd’s boardroom allies. In The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor's Last Best Weapon, David Webber uses cases such as Safeway’s to shine a light on labor’s most potent remaining weapon: its multitrillion-dollar pension funds. Outmaneuvered at the bargaining table and under constant assault in Washington, state houses, and the courts, worker organizations are beginning to exercise muscle through markets. Shareholder activism has been used to divest from anti-labor companies, gun makers, and tobacco; diversify corporate boards; support Occupy Wall Street; force global warming onto the corporate agenda; create jobs; and challenge outlandish CEO pay. Webber argues that workers have found in labor’s capital a potent strategy against their exploiters. He explains the tactic’s surmountable difficulties even as he cautions that corporate interests are already working to deny labor’s access to this powerful and underused tool. The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder is a rare good-news story for American workers, an opportunity hiding in plain sight. Combining legal rigor with inspiring narratives of labor victory, Webber shows how workers can wield their own capital to reclaim their strength.

Author : John C. Coffee
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674736795

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Entrepreneurial Litigation by John C. Coffee Pdf

In class actions, attorneys effectively hire clients rather than act as their agent. Lawyer-financed, lawyer-controlled, and lawyer-settled, this entrepreneurial litigation invites lawyers to act in their own interest. John Coffee’s goal is to save class action, not discard it, and to make private enforcement of law more democratically accountable.

Author : Ilya Shapiro
Publisher : Cato Supreme Court Review
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 1948647567

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Cato Supreme Court Review by Ilya Shapiro Pdf

In this annual review from the Cato Institute, Ilya Shapiro and leading legal scholars analyze the 2018-2019 Supreme Court term, specifically the most important and far-reaching cases of the year, plus cases coming up. Now in its eighteenth edition, the Review is the first scholarly journal to appear after the term's end and the only one grounded in the nation's first principles, liberty, and limited government.

Author : Pedro Matos
Publisher : CFA Institute Research Foundation
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781944960988

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ESG and Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World: A Critical Review by Pedro Matos Pdf

This survey examines the vibrant academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing. While there is no consensus on the exact list of ESG issues, responsible investors increasingly assess stocks in their portfolios based on nonfinancial data on environmental impact (e.g., carbon emissions), social impact (e.g., employee satisfaction), and governance attributes (e.g., board structure). The objective is to reduce exposure to investments that pose greater ESG risks or to influence companies to become more sustainable. One active area of research at present involves assessing portfolio risk exposure to climate change. This literature review focuses on institutional investors, which have grown in importance such that they have now become the largest holders of shares in public companies globally. Historically, institutional investors tended to concentrate their ESG efforts mostly on corporate governance (the “G” in ESG). These efforts included seeking to eliminate provisions that restrict shareholder rights and enhance managerial power, such as staggered boards, supermajority rules, golden parachutes, and poison pills. Highlights from this section: · There is no consensus on the exact list of ESG issues and their materiality. · The ESG issue that gets the most attention from institutional investors is climate change, in particular their portfolio companies’ exposure to carbon risk and “stranded assets.” · Investors should be positioning themselves for increased regulation, with the regulatory agenda being more ambitious in the European Union than in the United States. Readers might come away from this survey skeptical about the potential for ESG investing to affect positive change. I prefer to characterize the current state of the literature as having a “healthy dose of skepticism,” with much more remaining to be explored. Here, I hope the reader comes away with a call to action. For the industry practitioner, I believe that the investment industry should strive to achieve positive societal goals. CFA Institute provides an exemplary case in its Future of Finance series (www.cfainstitute.org/research/future-finance). For the academic community, I suggest we ramp up research aimed at tackling some of the open questions around the pressing societal goals of ESG investing. I am optimistic that practitioners and academics will identify meaningful ways to better harness the power of global financial markets for addressing the pressing ESG issues facing our society.

Author : OECD,International Finance Corporation
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264116054

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Corporate Governance Strengthening Latin American Corporate Governance The Role of Institutional Investors by OECD,International Finance Corporation Pdf

This report reflects long-term, in-depth discussion and debate by participants in the Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance.

Author : Diane-Laure Arjaliès,Philip Grant,Iain Hardie,Donald MacKenzie,Ekaterina Svetlova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198802945

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Chains of Finance by Diane-Laure Arjaliès,Philip Grant,Iain Hardie,Donald MacKenzie,Ekaterina Svetlova Pdf

Investment management and the investment chain -- Chains of freedom: the investment chain inside the investment management firm -- Fund managers and their investors -- Quantitative asset managers and their chains -- Entangled trading: fund managers and dark pools -- Bringing society back into the investment chain responsible investing during the financial crisis -- Trapped in resistance: collective struggles through the investment chain -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: a brief roster of intermediaries

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates,Center for Professional Responsibility (American Bar Association)
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 1590318730

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Model Rules of Professional Conduct by American Bar Association. House of Delegates,Center for Professional Responsibility (American Bar Association) Pdf

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Author : William Savitt (Attorney)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1804491713

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The Securities Litigation Review by William Savitt (Attorney) Pdf

Author : Meg Kinnear,Geraldine R. Fischer
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041161413

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Building International Investment Law by Meg Kinnear,Geraldine R. Fischer Pdf

This volume celebrates the first fifty years of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) by presenting the landmark cases that have been decided under its auspices. These cases have addressed every aspect of investment disputes: jurisdictional thresholds; the substantive obligations found in investment treaties, contracts, and legislation; questions of general international law; and a number of novel procedural issues. Each chapter, written by an expert on the chapter’s particular focus, looks at an international investment law topic through the lens of one or more of these leading cases, analyzing what the case held, how it has been applied, and its overall significance to the development of international investment law. These topics include: - applicable law; - res judicata in investor-State arbitration; - notion of investment; - investor nationality; - consent to arbitration; - substantive standards of treatment; - consequences of corruption in investor-State arbitration; - State defenses - counter-claims; - assessment of damages and cost considerations; - ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) objections; - mass claims, consolidation and parallel proceedings; - provisional measures; - arbitrator challenges; - transparency and amicus curiae; and - annulment. Because the law of international investment continues to grow in importance in an ever globalizing world, this book is more than a fitting way to mark the past fifty years and to welcome the next fifty years of development. It will prove both educational for practitioners new to the field and informative for seasoned investment lawyers. Moreover, the book itself is a landmark that will be of great value to professionals, scholars and students interested in international investment law.