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• W206329309 abstract "Before 2007, it was generally accepted wisdom that publicly-held firms are organized as corporations, subject to the usual rules, checks and balances of traditional corporate law. The 2007 IPOs of the private equity firms Blackstone, Fortress and Och-Ziff, however, challenged this notion. While almost all publicly-held firms are organized as corporations, Blackstone, Fortress, and Och-Ziff are each organized as non-corporations-a limited partnership in the case of Blackstone and limited liability companies in the cases of Fortress and Och-Ziff. Historically, private equity has used the non-corporate form for tax reasons. Under the federal tax code, non-corporations enjoy pass-through tax treatment, avoiding tax at the entity-level that would otherwise reduce their investors' returns. Non-corporations, however, also avoid another key feature of the corporate regime: the law of fiduciary duties. Under the corporate law of Delaware, the state in which a majority of publicly-traded companies are incorporated, corporate managers owe shareholders the fiduciary duties of care, loyalty and good faith. Although Delaware's corporate statute generally provides default rules from which parties can choose to deviate, the fiduciary duties binding corporate managers are generally unwaivable. In contrast, Delaware's non-corporate statutes permit non-corporate firms to opt out of the fiduciary regime, by eliminating such duties wholesale. The 2007 IPOs, thus, highlight a curious asymmetry in the law: In both substantive and structural respects, public non-corporations can resemble their corporate counterparts. Yet, unlike corporations, non-corporations are able to avoid one of the basic precepts, and arguably most cumbersome obligations, of corporate law. Academics and practitioners have long debated the need for fiduciary duties in corporate law. This paper eschews this tired debate and argues that as a practical matter, the asymmetry between the fiduciary duties of corporate and non-corporate law today reflects nothing more than a substanceless vestige. Law and businesses have together evolved in ways that have blurred any distinctions between corporations and their non-corporate counterparts. Whatever the costs or benefits of fiduciary duties, the 2007 IPOs demonstrated that large firms and their managers seeking access to the capital of public markets now have a ready way to avoid the fiduciary duties imposed by corporate law - the non-corporate form. As a result, today, the legal asymmetry between corporations and non-corporations has been reduced to a hollow and archaic formalism - one that, if it subsists, portends an existential challenge to the continuing relevance of corporate law and the corporate form." @default.
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• W206329309 title "Legal Asymmetry and the End of Corporate Law" @default.
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