Brian JM Quinn joined Boston College Law School in 2008. He teaches Corporations, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Deals. Prof. Quinn's research focuses on corporate law, the structuring of transactions, and private ordering. Prof. Quinn comes to the law school from Stanford Law School where he was the Teaching Fellow for Corporate Governance & Practice. Prior to his position at Stanford, Prof. Quinn was in private practice with Cooley Godward in Palo Alto, where he represented public and private technology clients in merger and acquisitions transactions. Prof. Quinn also previously served as country coordinator for the Harvard University’s Institute for International Development, managing Harvard’s Vietnam-based teaching and research activities. Prof. Quinn got his start as a legislative aide to Senator Edward M. Kennedy working on health and education issues. Prof. Quinn writes on corporate law, transaction structures and private ordering. In addition, Prof. Quinn has written extensively on issues of legal reform in post-Socialist Asia, particularly Vietnam. Prof. Quinn also blogs on legal developments in corporate governance and mergers & acquisitions at the M&A Law Prof Blog. This year, Prof. Quinn received the 2011 Professor Emil Slizewski Award for Faculty Excellence.
Articles
Arbitration and the Future of Delaware’s Corporate Law Franchise, Boston College Law School Faculty Papers (2013)
In an effort to maintain Delaware’s competitive position in the market for adjudications, Delaware recently...
Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: The Performance of Earnouts in Corporate Acquisitions, University of Cincinnati Law Review (2013)
This Article seeks to answer the question whether earnouts really serve to respond to adverse...
Shareholder Lawsuits, Status Quo Bias, and Adoption of the Exclusive Forum Provision, UC Davis Law Review (2011)
Observers note a trend of shareholder lawsuits migrating out of Delaware. This trend is a...
Re-Evaluating the Emerging Standard of Review for Matching Rights in Control Transactions, Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (2011)
Asset Specificity and Transaction Structures: A Case Study of @Home Corporation, Harvard Negotiation Law Review (2010)
This is a case study of asset specific investments, a class of transactions that is...
Contributions to Books
Foreword, Regulation of Securities Offerings and Investment Banking: Cases and Materials for Study in US Securities Act of 1933 (2012)
Foreword to the book Regulation of Securities Offerings and Investment Banking: Cases and Materials for...
Works in Progress
Presentations
Omnicare: Of Fruit Flies and Deal Protections, Omnicare: 10 Years On, University of Iowa College of Law (2013)
Reviving Substantive Coercion, Fiduciary Duty Workshop, Notre Dame Law School (2013)
Globalization and its Impact on Transactional Law, AALS Transactional Law and Skills Section (2013)
Moderated panel of transactional and corporate law academics discussing the impact of globalization on teaching...
What Practitioners Can Learn from Academics, Developments in Delaware Takeover Law, Practising Law Institute (2012)
Invited to participate by Vice Chancellor Travis Laster on panel with Prof. John Coates and...