Episodes
In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Andrew F. Tuch, Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Tuch is the author of a recent research paper entitled "Fairness Opinions and SPAC Reform."
Published 10/26/23
This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from September 5 to October 3, 2023.
Published 10/04/23
In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Karla M. Zehms, the Ernst and Young Professor at University of Wisconsin – Madison. Professor Zehms is one of the co-authors of a recent research paper entitled "Old Institutions, New Report: Auditors’ Experiences Implementing Critical Audit Matter Reporting."
Published 09/27/23
This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from August 1 to September 5, 2023.
Published 09/07/23
In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Edward B. Rock, The Martin Lipton Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance at the New York University School of Law. Professor Rock is a co-author of a recent paper, "Corporate Governance Welfarism."
Published 08/24/23
This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from June 28 to August 1, 2023.
Published 08/03/23
In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews J. Robert Brown, Jr., the Lawrence W. Treece Professor of Corporate Governance at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Professor Brown is a co-author of a recent paper titled "Chilling Climate Change Disclosure: The Enabling Role of Corporate Counsel in Management Misstatements of ESG Matters."
Published 07/27/23
This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from May 30 - June 28, 2023.
Published 07/05/23
In this episode, CII General Counsel interviews Zohar Goshen, the Jerome L. Greene Professor of Transactional Law at Columbia Law School. Professor Goshen is a co-author of a research paper titled "Barbarians Inside the Gates: Raiders, Activists, and the Risk of Mistargeting."
Published 06/29/23
In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Kate Suslava of the Freeman College of Management at Bucknell University. Professor Suslava is one of the co-authors of a recent research paper entitled "Disappearing Audit Disclosure:  Changes in the Reporting of Critical Audit Matters." The paper is available upon request from the author at [email protected].
Published 06/08/23
This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from May 2-30, 2023.
Published 06/01/23
In this episode, CII general counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago. Professor Zingales is one of the co-authors of a recent research paper entitled "How Pervasive is Corporate Fraud?" published in the Review of Accounting Studies. 
Published 05/11/23
This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from April 4 - May 2, 2023.
Published 05/04/23
In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Wayne R. Landsman of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Landsman is one of the co-authors of a recent research paper entitled "The Effect of Changes in Legal Liability on Credit Rating Agencies’ Reliance on Financial Statement Information and Rating Quality."
Published 04/13/23
This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from March 1 - April 4, 2023.
Published 04/05/23
This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from February 2 - March 1, 2023.
Published 03/13/23
In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Frederick Alexander, CEO of The Shareholder Commons, on McRitchie v. Zuckerberg -  a class-action lawsuit filed on October 3, 2022, in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The complaint alleges that the directors of Meta Platforms breached their fiduciary duties by ignoring the impact of the companies’ operations on the diversified portfolios of its shareholders.  
Published 02/23/23
This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from January 4 to February 2, 2023.
Published 02/09/23
In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Scott Hirst, Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law. Professor Hirst is the author of a recent research article entitled "Saving Climate Disclosure."
Published 01/19/23
This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from December 2, 2022, to January 4, 2023.
Published 01/09/23
In this episode, CII General Counsel interviews Shiva Rajgopal,  the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. Professor Rajgopal is the co-author of a recent report entitled "Competitive Target Pay Practices for CEO Compensation."
Published 12/28/22
In this episode, CII General Counsel interviews Albert L. Nagy, Professor of Accountancy at John Carroll University. Professor Nagy is one of the co-authors of a recent research paper entitled “CPAs and Big 4 Office Audit Quality.”
Published 12/20/22
In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Andrew F. Tuch, Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. Professor Tuch is a co-author of a recent research article entitled "The Further Erosion of Investor Protection: Expanded Exemptions, SPAC Mergers and Direct Listings."
Published 12/19/22
This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from October 31 - December 2.
Published 12/07/22
In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Lauren Cunningham, the Keith Stanga Professor of Accounting at the University of Tennessee Knoxville and Director of Research for the C. Warren Neel Corporate Governance Center, and Sarah Stein, associate professor and the Deloitte Foundation Faculty Fellow in the department of Accounting and Information Systems at Virginia Tech. Professors Cunningham and Stein are two of the co-authors of a new report, developed with the Center for...
Published 11/30/22