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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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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...
November 11, 20190Mass 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...
Mission Product Holdings v. Tempnology leaves a mark for trademark licenses rejected in bankruptcy
For decades, trademark licensees were left in the limbo when their licensors filed for bankruptcy. If a debtor-licensor exercises its statutory right to reject...
Regulating Fintech for Financial Inclusion
Globally, 1.7 billion people, or roughly 21% of the world population, are unbanked, meaning they lack access to basic financial services such as a...
Cartel Leniency Following the Wind of Change
On July 11 of this year, the Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, announced a new policy to...
The Burden of Pharmaceutical “Evergreening” Strategies on American Health
“Too many Americans simply cannot afford lifesaving medicines.”1 Consequently, “ome patients delay essential care, cut their pills in half, or skip drug treatment altogether,...
Escaping Shareholder Primacy – Without Waiting for Congress
Introduction In a statement with the Business Roundtable (BRT), 181 major American CEOs recently proclaimed their desire to serve a variety of stakeholder interests...
The Power of Corporate Social Responsibility Proposals
Alphabet, Inc., the parent corporation of Google and its affiliated companies, recently held its annual shareholder meeting.1 Among the list of items that were...
Blockchain technology: the next defense in the protection of intellectual property – a trade secret application
There has been an increase in the amount written in the popular press and in professional publications about the importance of intellectual property as...