Authors:

  • Lucian Bebchuk

Excerpt

The Untenable Case for Perpetual Dual-Class Stock. Lucian Bebchuk, June 2017, Paper, "The desirability of a dual-class structure, which enables founders of public companies to retain a lock on control while holding a minority of the company’s equity capital, has long been the subject of a heated debate. This debate has focused on whether dual-class stock is an efficient capital structure that should be permitted at the time of initial public offering (“IPO”). By contrast, we focus on how the passage of time since the IPO can be expected to affect the efficiency of such a structure." Link