Business/Corporate Law

Professor Adam Badawi weighs in on Skydance Media’s acquisition of Paramount Global, and discusses what control an acquiring company can exert over the decisions made by the acquired company during the regulatory review process.

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“Bitcoin is mature enough at this point that it doesn’t have that kind of centralized managerial efforts of others. That’s what moves it into that commodity space,” said Hermine Wong, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Law and former director of policy at Coinbase.

AI companies should embrace the concept of stakeholder capitalism which says businesses should consider their stakeholder network—not just their shareholders—when making decisions, says Berkeley Law lecturer and alum Jesse Finfrock.

“While it may yield some monetary victories, American antitrust law is a very limited tool to restructure the uneven playing field of American business.” writes Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy.

Jonathan Simon, a criminal justice professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, said businesses probably do have relatively accurate estimates of how much their inventory is shrinking due to theft. And that it’s possible retail theft has increased partially because of online resale platforms, which serve as a conduit for organized theft for profit.

Angeli Patel, executive director at the Berkeley Center for Law and Business discusses BlackRock’s ESG policies.

“Law firms will have to develop some expertise around these new rules, that’s going to take time,” said Adam Badawi, a UC Berkeley Law professor. “If these rules do become final, it will take a year or two for them to start feeling comfortable with them and it’s going to slow the deal process down.”

“Make no mistake, deposits in the United States are insured whether the law says so or not,” writes Professor Krishnamurthy. “It is time to recognize this reality and adopt explicit and progressive insurance for large deposits.”

“Millions of Americans live one purchase away from emptying their bank account, and they pay a steep price for oversights in account management,” writes Berkeley Law Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy. “Better regulation can stop banks from preying on consumer inattention so that overdrafts and NSF can truly function as a means of emergency credit, at least until better options emerge.”