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The Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review is a practitioner-focused publication. Our content includes articles, comments, notes, and blog posts addressing regulatory, securities, corporate, tax, intellectual property, and other legal issues involving emerging companies and institutional investors.
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The Duties and Breaches of the CEO President
“ will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical...
November 21, 20190Practicing M&A as an Attorney: A Focus on Emerging and Mature Innovative Company Transactions
Interview subjects have asked to remain anonymous in order to feel comfortable providing candid answers. Mergers and acquisitions is a hot practice in business,...
Pay to Play: the NCAA Must Use Caution with New Player Compensation Rules
On October 29, 2019, the NCAA announced that it intends to allow collegiate athletes to profit off their own likenesses, opening the door for...
Assessing the Likelihood of Near-Future Invocations of Section 4A of the Clayton Act
The Department of Justice announced about a year ago that three South Korean energy companies were to plead guilty in a price-fixing scheme that...
Deceptive Trademarks: A Free Speech Issue
Look to your left. Now look to your right. Only one of you will survive. This phrase, which purportedly used to be common in...
Pushing the Business Case for Diversity and Inclusion in Law Firms
This October, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Harvard University in a notable and highly covered case about whether Harvard’s admissions process was...
PG&E, Chapter 11 & the Public Beneficiary Trust
On January 29, 2019, investor-owned Pacific Gas & Electric Company (“PG&E”) declared bankruptcy, filing a Chapter 11 reorganization petition in the United States Bankruptcy...
Dual Class Stock Structures: The Need for Shareholder Involvement in Formation and Management
Dual class stock structures have become increasingly popular in the last couple of years. Initial public offerings that feature dual-class stock structures have risen...
Mass Arbitration: How Uber’s Own Alternative Dispute Resolution Clauses Were Used Against Them
After coming onto the scene and significantly disrupting the transportation sector around a decade ago, Uber became the center of several controversies.1 One of...
The world is getting thirsty, so will we drink the ocean?
The State of California recently ended its state of emergency related to the state’s longest recorded drought, lasting almost eight years.1 While Executive Order...