Corporations

Too big to fail – Spring semester business law students learned how the rise and fall of railroads pioneered a path to deal with large-scale corporate bankruptcies

June 17, 2024
Douglas Sasso (LAW ’26) shares a spotlight on a Spring 2024 Current Topics in Business Law course which covered the influence railroads had on the development of the American legal system. Focusing on the Penn Central bankruptcy, the course offered students a chance to study what was once the largest merger and bankruptcy in history and its affect on legal, regulatory, and economic systems.

Fall 2023 Friel-Scanlan Lecture: A New Corporate Overstory

by Landon Farnsworth (LAW ’24) and Tom C.W. Lin

October 31, 2023
Professor Tom Lin delivers the Friel-Scanlan lecture to Temple Law community entitled “A New Corporate Overstory.” Professor Lin was awarded this honor in recognition for outstanding faculty scholarship.

Shareholder Meetings and Freedom Rides: The Story of Peck v. Greyhound

by Harwell Wells (Temple Professor of Law)

Professor Harwell Wells, discusses his new paper, Shareholder Meetings and Freedom Rides, a story about the history of corporate and securities laws that begins in an unlikely place.

Temple Law Hosts SEC Roundtable Featuring Former Directors of Enforcement

by Therese Gildea (LAW ‘23)

Three former Directors of the SEC Division of Enforcement, all Temple Law alumni, discussed developments from insider trading to crypto scams and the evolution of securities enforcement past, present, and future at a roundtable moderated by Professor Tom C. W. Lin.

Performance Management is Key to Business Ethics

by Patrik Florencio and David Clark

Patrik Florencio & David Clark discuss the critical role of performance management in building a culture of integrity and ethics.

LeClairRyan Bankruptcy Highlights Pass-Through Tax Issue

by Edward L. Schnitzer and Hannah Travaglini (LAW ’21)

Hannah Travaglini (LAW ’21) of Montgomery McCracken co-authored an article with Edward Schnitzer discussing the recent court decision in the LeClairRyan bankruptcy and, more broadly, the tax ramifications of different corporate entity structures during bankruptcy.

Is Government Better at Corporate Reform Than Corporations?

by Michael Donnella (Temple Law Professor)

Professor Donnella discusses the role of corporations in reforming their internal compliance and ethical guidelines

Delaware Set to Expand Exculpation to Certain Officers of Corporations

by Nicholas D. Mozal (LAW ’11) and Lucille E. Wiesner (LAW ’21)

The Delaware General Assembly is set to consider amendments to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (DGCL), already approved by the Corporation Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association, to, among other things, allow Delaware corporations to adopt exculpation clauses limiting or eliminating the monetary liability of certain officers. The proposed amendment to Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL addresses a growing concern over officer liability, albeit by providing narrower exculpation than is available to directors.

Pope & Talbot and a Slippery Slope: Distributions of Partnership Equity

by Robert M. Kane, Jr. (LAW '11)

Robert M. Kane, Jr. examines Pope & Talbot and argues that the IRS inappropriately relied on that case in two rulings addressing the calculation of section 311 gain on distributions of partnership equity.

March Compliance Monthly: Do Organizational Values Statements Matter?

by Michael Donnella (Temple Law Professor)

Temple Law’s Center for Compliance and Ethics’ Michael Donnella argues for the usefulness of strong and authentic values statements to assist organizations and their employees in behaving consistently with Compliance and Ethics standards.