Threat Response As previously indicated, the American attitude toward foreign investment was generally a temperate one (absent energy investments or perceived war-time threats) until the aftermath of a major shift in post-WWII global wealth began to emerge in the...
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Are SWFs the New WMDs? As the name suggests, the primary characteristic of a Sovereign Wealth Fund is that it is a state-owned and operated investment vehicle. But among the many definitions for Sovereign Wealth Fund used in differing private...
Strange Currencies: America’s Varied, Volatile and Selective Affair(s) with Foreign Investment Although numerous regulations aimed at curbing Foreign Investment in the United States have emerged over the past 100 years, America is, quite literally, a creation of...
Imagine The Following All-Too-Plausible Scenario… The date is December 21st, 2017 and the typical American holiday shopping fanfare – our Bacchus offering to the gods of modern western consumerism – is noticeably tempered due to increasing concerns about financial...
There’s no questioning the current power of the duty of loyalty to correct bad corporate actors or dissuade directors from self-dealing. But, as this article will show, that is only half of the story. For the better half of the last century, corporate jurisprudence...
