Robert M. Daines
Robert M. Daines
- Pritzker Professor of Law and Business
- Senior Faculty, Rock Center for Corporate Governance
- Room N219, Neukom Building
Expertise
- Business & Corporate Law
- Capital Markets
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Law & Economics
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Venture Capital
Biography
Senior Faculty, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance; Professor (by courtesy) of Finance, Graduate School of Business
Robert M. Daines is the Pritzker Professor of Law and Business and Co-Director of the Rock Center on Corporate Governance at Stanford. His research focuses on the intersection between law and finance, including CEO pay, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, mandatory disclosure regulations, IPOs, shareholder voting and takeover defenses. Professor Daines’ work has appeared in such top publications as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization and The Yale Law Journal. His research has also been covered by The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune and other media.
Before entering academia, he was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, where he advised firms on bank and bond financings. He is also Professor of Finance (by courtesy) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Prof. Daines was awarded the 2012 John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Education
- BS BA Brigham Young University 1989
- JD Yale Law School 1992
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Affiliations & Honors
- NASDAQ Stock Market Review Council
- Referee: Journal of Finance; Journal of Financial Economics; Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Law, Economics and Organization; Journal of Legal Studies; Financial Management; The American Law and Economics Review
- Chair or organizer of: Law and Economics Section, Association of American Law Schools; Corporate and Securities Law: Empirical Section of the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting; Program Committee for the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
Honors and Awards
Journal of Financial Economics “All-Star” Paper, “Does Delaware Law Improve Firm Value?”- Olin Prize for the Best Paper in Law and Economics
- 2012 John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching
News
Rock Center Offers Board Membership Bootcamp for Minorities and Women
Stanford Law School
On March 5 Stanford’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz co-hosted a new program that invited some of Silicon Valley’s top talent to Stanford Law School to prepare and educate more women and minority candidates for venture-backed board service. Participants at “A Guide to…
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