Contingent control (CC) is a key enabler of startup growth and venture capital. To preserve adequate incentives and mitigate risks, venture finance deals distribute startups' governance rights among investors and founders based on performance measures ...

Startup companies and venture capital investments are flourishing worldwide, but at different rates in different countries. The myriad of corporate law reforms designed to change those patterns have had, generally, underwhelming results. A core reason ...

The World Bank's Doing Business project encourages the reduction of business registration requirements to stimulate entrepreneurship and economic development. Over the last two decades, it has contributed to the harmonisation of these requirements worldwide, but ...

Current global economic order is openly dependent on foreign direct investment (FDI). At least since the 1990's, developing countries have competed to attract FDI because it is considered the best source of technology, employment, and ...

To mitigate the economic consequences of the Covid19 pandemic, corporate insolvency law has been temporarily amended in multiple jurisdictions. The main objective of these reforms is to ensure that viable businesses are not victims of ...

This chapter analyses the Pacific Alliance – an economic bloc formed by Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru in 2011 – and its integrated stock exchange, the Mercado Integrado Latinoamericano (MILA). It contends that the Alliance ...