The Legal Theory Workshop continues with John Coates, the John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics and research director at the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He will present a lecture entitled “The Pervasive Effects of Ownership on Mergers and Acquisitions” on Friday, April 2 in the University of Miami School of Law’s faculty meeting room. The workshop begins at 12:30 p.m., with lunch served at noon.
Coates joined Harvard Law School in 1997 after private practice at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he was a partner specializing in mergers and acquisitions, corporate and securities law, and the regulation of financial institutions.
His current research at Harvard includes empirical studies of the purchasing of legal services by S&P 500 companies, the causes and consequences of the completion or failure of M&A transactions, mutual funds and the effects of their regulation, and the causes and consequences of CEO and CLO turnover. He teaches courses on Mergers and Acquisitions, Financial Institutions Regulation, Contracts, Corporations, and the History of Capitalist Institutions.
Professor Coates is a frequent panelist and speaker on M&A, and a consultant to the SEC, law firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other participants in the M&A and capital markets. He also is a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange and is a past director of the American Law and Economics Association. He is the author of numerous articles on corporate, securities, and financial institution law, and for seven years coauthored the leading annual survey of developments in financial institution M&A.
Seating for the event is limited. To attend, RSVP to Detra Davis Fleming at [email protected]. Priority will be given to those first to reply.
