Finance

Banking | Finance

Victor C. Johnson, Zachary Q. Hoard | Dykema Gossett PLLC

Virtual currency companies have sprung up around the world in the last two years. Designed as an alternative to current payment systems, digital currencies, such as Bitcoin, XRP, and Dogecoin, are a way for people to track, store, and send payments over the Internet. While these virtual...

Finance | Private Equity

Nabil A. Issa, James R. Stull | King & Spalding LLP

Saudi Arabia continues to be a booming and stable economy that continues to be buoyed by high oil prices and a thriving private sector. While oil prices have fallen from record highs down to US$80 a barrel, such price exceeds the amounts required for another expected budget surplus. Saudi Arabia...

Finance

John C. Coffee, Jr. | Columbia University School of Law

John C. Coffee, Jr. is the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance. This opinion piece is an elaboration on, and extension of, testimony that Professor Coffee gave on October 9, 2014, before the SEC's Investor Advisory...