@csautter
Associate Dean for Research & Law Prof, SMU Dedman School of Law. Co-Founder, Secretary, Bd Director-Center for Retail Investors & Corporate Inclusion. Fascinated by #WirelessInvestors SSRN: https://bit.ly/SautterPapers
📄 New on SSRN: “Corporate Disenfranchisement,” coauthored with @sergioalberto_ - exploring how shareholders are systematically losing their voice in corporate governance. Read & download on @SSRN: bit.ly/corpdis
New post w/ Sergio Gramitto Ricci: Before #FinTok, corporate gadflies like Wilma Soss educated investors via 1950s radio programs. The legacy continues w/ Jim McRitchie & CorpGov.net.
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Read my Bloomberg Law OpEd “Texas Corporate Reforms Silence Retail Shareholders—By Design” arguing amendments to the Texas Code are designed to disenfranchise retail investors despite being advertised as furthering “shareholder democracy” @SMULawSchool
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It was definitely Cure! Let’s all have a redo at AALS!
M&A students & profs - Office Hours on Mergers and Acquisitions was released on the West Academic Study Aids & Reference Collection site. There’s 12 recordings (plus transcripts) covering the basics of M&A: subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?...
Very much looking forward to participating in the “Investor Preferences and Corporate Governance” workshop to be held at the University of Bologna and co-sponsored by the Center for Retail Investors & Corporate Inclusion. I’ll be presenting my WIP “Corporate Disenfranchisement”
SMU Law is looking to hire 2 entry-level, tenure-track faculty members in Civ Pro & Leg Reg and Law & Tech, inc AI. Candidates must apply by Sept 15 via Interfolio (link 👇) to be considered. I’m on the appointments Cmte & happy to answer questions
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Not good - furthering institutionalizing companies with everyday investors’ money & providing them (the ultimate retail investor) w/ no voice. Our lack of financial & corporate governance education aids in this. People don’t understand the options & what they lost by investing via funds & via PE
We aren’t saying it’s a good thing
Colleen Baker & I wrote a short piece titled “Democratization of the Private Markets?” focusing on closed-end funds investing in private company equity. It was just published by Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law.
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So great to sit down w/ the Bite-Sized Business Law Podcast, @csautter.bsky.social & Sergio Gramitto Ricci to talk about democracy & corporations.
You can't understand what's going on in U.S. politics w/out understanding what happened to "corporate democracy."
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Great speaking with Columbia Journalism Review - Paramount will pay Trump $16 million to settle "60 Minutes" suit.! 🦋
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I wrote a short commentary on Delaware SB 21 for @promarket.bsky.social. Check it out below!
First was a fantastic discussion with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci and @csautter.bsky.social on the history of the concept of shareholder democracy and its fraught present on @busscholarship.bsky.social. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=61kz... (2/7)
Want to hear how shareholder democracy is a lie? Check out the latest episode of the @busscholarship.bsky.social hosted by @AndrewjJennings.bsky.social. Sergio Gramitto Ricci (@hofstra.baky.social) & I were delighted to talk about “The Shareholder Democracy Lie”
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Sergio Gramitto Ricci & I were invited to write an Encyclopedia entry on Compliance for Stakeholders and Reputation. We’d love to get your feedback! You can download it here:
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Very excited to be named Associate Dean for Research at SMU Law School. Looking forward to promoting the great work of our outstanding faculty and community!
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Sergio Gramitto Ricci & I have been saying that retail investors are here to stay. . . investorsobserver.com/news/record-...
I’m overdue posting this here but I had the most fantastic Ph.D. students at Bocconi last week for my US Securities Law/US Shareholding seminar. Many thanks to Giovanni Strampelli & Gaia Balp for inviting & hosting me. My students gave me permission to post this pic
It was great speaking with Phil Prazan and Gromer Jeffers on NBC DFW
about M&A and market uncertainty
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Very excited to be at Università Bocconi this week teaching a Ph.D. in Law (Business Law Concentration) seminar on U.S. Securities Law/U.S. Shareholding. Many thanks to Giovanni Strampelli & Gaia Balp for the invitation. Thanks also to Hao Jiang for welcoming me today!
I presented “The Shareholder Democracy Lie” (co-authored w/ Sergio Gramitto Ricci & Dan Greenwood of Hofstra Law & forthcoming in Florida Law Review) ystrdy at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Big thnx to the faculty for their feedback & to Konstantinos Sergakis for hosting me!
A new set of wireless investors has begun to be born - Generation Beta. As @WSJ reports, their lives will be shaped by AI & technology like never before. I suspect this generation will begin to invest at a younger age & transform investing norms
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If you want to get right to the paper, you can download on SSRN bit.ly/ShareholderD...
Check out Sergio Gramitto Ricci, Dan Greenwood, & my @clsblue.bsky.social blog post about our article “The Shareholder Democracy Lie” forthcoming in the Florida Law Review clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2025/03/05/s...
Many thanks to @nellminow.bsky.social for featuring The Shareholder Democracy Lie and providing her feedback on our articles
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Thank you!
Looking forward to spending the next 5 weeks as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Law School. Many thanks to David Cabrelli and Jonny Hardman for hosting me!
Congratulations!!!