Adam Badawi

Adam Badawi is a Professor of Law at UC Berkeley. He writes widely on issues of law and finance with an emphasis on corporate governance, corporate transactions, and shareholder litigation. Much of his recent work uses text analysis and machine learning to analyze debt agreements, merger documents, and shareholder class action complaints. At Berkeley Law, he teaches Contracts, Corporations, Mergers and Acquisitions, and seminars related to these topics.

His research includes “How Informative is the Text of Securities Complaints?” (under review), “Contractual Complexity in Debt Agreements: The Case of EBITDA” (in progress) (with Elisabeth de Fontenay, Scott Dyreng, and Robert Hills), “Social Good and Litigation Risk” (forthcoming, Harvard Business Law Review) (with Frank Partnoy); and “Is There a First-Drafter Advantage in M&A?”, California Law Review (2019) (with Elisabeth de Fontenay) (selected as one of the top 10 corporate and securities articles of 2019 by Corporate Practice Commentator).

Prior to joining the faculty of Berkeley Law in 2017, Badawi was a Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. He has been a Visiting Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and he served as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. Before joining the academy he was a litigator in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP and was a law clerk to the Hon. Michael McConnell of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals..

Education

B.A., University of California, Berkeley
J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Adam B. Badawi is teaching the following courses in Spring 2022:

• 217 sec. 001 - Law, Economics, and Accounting Workshop
• 248.5 sec. 001 - Mergers & Acquisitions

Courses During Other Semesters

Semester	Course Num	Course Title	Teaching Evaluations
Fall 2022	248.5 sec. 001	Mergers & Acquisitions
Summer 2021	250S sec. 001	Business Associations
Spring 2021	250 sec. 002	Business Associations	View Teaching Evaluation
	250 sec. 003	Business Associations	View Teaching Evaluation