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Charles K. Whitehead
Myron C. Taylor Alumni Professor of Business Law
Expertise:
Corporate Law and Financial Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Law
Clinics and Programs:
Clarke Program on Law, Finance, and Transactions
Address
Cornell University
222 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
222 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Biography
Charles K. Whitehead specializes in the law relating to corporations and other business associations, securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, and financial regulation.
Before entering academia, Professor Whitehead represented clients in transactions around the world and held senior legal and business positions in the financial services industry in New York and Tokyo, including as a Managing Director of Nomura Securities International (North and South America), Salomon Brothers, and Citigroup. He was the first Citigroup Country Officer for Japan, the head of Citigroup’s Corporate Bank in Japan, and the Chief Operating Officer of its investment bank in Japan.
As an academic, Professor Whitehead was a Research Fellow at Columbia Law School before joining the Boston University School of Law in 2006 and Cornell Law School in 2009. He is also the Founding Director of the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship Program at Cornell Tech.
Professor Whitehead is the co-author of one of the principal Securities Regulation casebooks in the United States. His current scholarship focuses on securities and financial regulation and corporate governance.
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- B.A. magna cum laude, Cornell University
- J.D., Columbia Law School (James Kent Scholar; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)
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- Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials, 14th edition (2021) (with John C. Coffee, Jr., and Hillary A. Sale)
- Securities Regulation: Statutory Supplement (with John C. Coffee, Jr., and Hillary A. Sale)
- Banking on the Lawyers (with Scott B. Guernsey, Saura Masconale, and Simone M. Sepe; The Practice, Harvard Law School, Center on the Legal Profession, 2019)
- “Debt and Corporate Governance,” in Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance, 2018)
- The Nonprime Mortgage Crisis and Positive Feedback Lending (with Bernard S. Black and Jennifer Mitchell Coupland; Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting, 2018)
- Equivalence: Form and Substance in Business Acquisitions (Research Handbook on Mergers and Acquisitions, Elgar Press, 2016)
- Rethinking Chutes: Incentives, Investments, and Innovation (with Simone M. Sepe; Boston University Law Review, 2015)
- Size Matters: Commercial Banks and the Capital Markets (Ohio State Law Journal, 2015)
- Paying for Risk: Bankers, Compensation, and Competition (with Simone M. Sepe; Cornell Law Review, 2015)
- Lawyers and Fools: Lawyer-Directors in Public Corporations (with Lubomir P. Litov and Simone M. Sepe; Georgetown Law Journal, 2014)
- Creditors and Debt Governance (Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law, Elgar Press, 2012)
- The Goldilocks Approach: Financial Risk and Staged Regulation (Cornell Law Review, 2012)
- Sandbagging: Default Rules and Acquisition Agreements (Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, 2012)
- The Volcker Rule and Evolving Financial Markets (Harvard Business Law Review, 2011)
- Why Not a CEO Term Limit? (Boston University Law Review, 2011)
- Destructive Coordination (Cornell Law Review, 2011)
- Reframing Financial Regulation (Boston University Law Review, 2010, reprinted in Journal of Financial Transformation, 2010)
- The Evolution of Debt: Covenants, the Credit Market, and Corporate Governance (The Journal of Corporation Law, 2009, reprinted in Corporate Practice Commentator, 2009)
- Deconstructing Equity: Public Ownership, Agency Costs, and Complete Financial Markets (with Ronald Gilson; Columbia Law Review, 2008)
- The Federalization of Fraud: Mail and Wire Fraud Statutes, in White Collar Crime: Business and Regulatory Offenses (1990) (with John C. Coffee, Jr.)
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- 6131 Business Organizations
- 6292 Deals
- 6721 Mergers and Aquisitions
- 6821 Securities Regulation