Coates
John C. Coates IV
Corporate-law, securities-law, and M&A scholar
Official Source Note
Harvard Law School lists Coates as the John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics, Deputy Dean, and Research Director of the Center on the Legal Profession. His profile states that he teaches corporate governance, M&A, finance, and related topics and identifies corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, financial institutions, law and economics, and the legal profession among his areas of interest.
Coates is included because his scholarship connects takeover defenses, M&A transaction structure, empirical corporate-law evidence, securities regulation, and the institutional role of business lawyers.
Source: Harvard Law School
Relevance to the Archive
Coates strengthens the archive's M&A layer by connecting takeover doctrine, empirical corporate-law evidence, transactional practice, and securities-regulatory institutions.
Representative Contributions
- Explaining Variation in Takeover Defenses
- The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards
- Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring
Works Included Here
2001
Advanced
2002
Advanced
The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence, and Policy
Lucian A. Bebchuk, John C. Coates IV, and Guhan Subramanian
Stanford Law Review