Corporate, business, and transactional law pertains to the organization and governance of, transactions and other activities engaged in by, and the regulation of, business entities.
Joseph Basile
Joseph Basile is managing director of Pari Passu M&A Mediation LLC, an independent specialist practice that focuses on mediating disputes arising from mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and control and minority investment transactions. He also is regularly engaged as a consulting and testifying expert in M&A-related litigation. Before founding Pari Passu, Mr. Basile served as […]
Carliss Chatman
Carliss Chatman specializes in the fields of corporate law, commercial law, race and entrepreneurship, and ethics. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as UCLA Law Review, Michigan Journal of Race and the Law, Texas Law Review, UC Irvine Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, and SMU Law Review. In addition, she is the […]
Kent A. Coit
Kent Coit is Professor of Law Emeritus at Boston University School of Law where he had served as Professor of Law and director of the School of Law’s Transactional Law Program. Professor Coit joined the School of Law in 2012 after retiring as a partner in the Boston office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom […]
Madison Condon
Madison Condon joined Boston University School of Law as an associate professor in July 2020. She teaches Environmental Law, Corporations, and a seminar on climate risk and financial institutions. Professor Condon is an expert on climate change, financial risk, and regulation. Her scholarship has been included in collections of the best articles of the year for several […]
Alan L. Feld
A member of the faculty since 1971, Alan Feld has testified before a number of congressional committees on issues surrounding tax laws. Before coming to Boston University, he practiced tax and corporate law at two New York firms: Barrett Knapp Smith & Schapiro and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. From 1996 to 2004 he […]
Tamar Frankel
Professor Tamar Frankel writes and teaches in the areas of fiduciary law, corporate governance, mutual funds and the regulation of the financial system. She has published 10 books and more than 80 articles and book chapters. In 2013, the Institute for Fiduciary Standard established the annual Frankel Fiduciary Prize in her honor to award individuals […]
Scott Hirst
Scott Hirst joined Boston University School of law as an associate professor in 2018. His research seeks to explain phenomena in corporate law, securities regulation, and related areas, and to inform policy making on these subjects. His work combines empirical methods and conceptual analyses from finance, accounting, and economics, with close attention to the institutional […]
Steven B. Levine
Steven Levine is a senior partner at Brown Rudnick, LLP where he has practiced law since graduating from law school in 1981. He regularly represents official and unofficial creditors’ committees, senior and junior lenders, hedge funds, asset purchasers and other constituencies in restructuring matters and the documentation, structuring and recovery of complex financial transactions. With […]
Stephen G. Marks
Stephen Marks has been a distinguished member of the Boston University community for many years. He began his teaching career in 1981 at the University’s School of Management, where he taught courses in banking, finance, investments, corporations, economics and decision making. Since joining the School of Law faculty in 1988, Professor Marks has taught courses […]
Pierluigi Matera
Pierluigi Matera is a corporate law scholar and an attorney with a vast experience in both U.S. and European company law. He writes and teaches in the areas of comparative law, sports law, and corporate law—in particular M&A, corporate litigation, and history of business corporations. Prof. Matera has published extensively in both peer-reviewed and student-edited journals, […]