Josh Twilley, President of Incorporating Services, Ltd. shares an article from the Delaware Business Times, featuring a Professor Charles Elson, a well-recognized expert on corporate governance at the University of Delaware. Mr. Elson will be presenting at UCLA on the topic of “Can Delaware Be Dethroned?” discussing whether Delaware’s preeminence as the legal home to most of the Fortune 500 companies can be displaced.

The Delaware Business Times recently caught up with Prof. Elson for a Q&A. You can read the article in its entirety here. Below are some of the highlights from this article posted on August 15, 2016:

• Delaware has a reputation for fairness and neutrality in determining corporate matters because other stakeholders (either corporate or individual) do not have unfair influence over the legislation. The Delaware Court of Chancery continues to be a global leader in corporate adjudication in part because of this fair balance.
• Charles believes the movement towards federalizing corporate law is essentially already in place, in that many other states follow Delaware’s lead in new corporate regulatory law. Federalizing would create inconsistencies in the law which would result in the Supreme Court taking up many corporate cases, which they have little interest in doing.
• Corporate law alone is not strong enough to prevent bad actors from using the corporate structure for illegal means. Delaware is no more complicit in allowing bad actors to use the corporate legal structure than any other state. (I would add that Delaware is less complicit because many other states have a less thoroughly developed corporate legal structure — in a less regulated environment, bad actors can get away with more…)

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