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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On Monday, the SEC announced that John Coates has been appointed Acting Director of Corp Fin.  He has been the John F. Cogan Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard University, where he also served as Vice Dean for Finance and Strategic Initiatives.  If that name sounds familiar—even if you haven’t been one of his students—it may be because he sometimes pops up in Matt Levine’s column in  Bloomberg as the author of “The Problem of Twelve,” which he describes as the “likelihood that in the near future roughly tw...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington D.C., Feb. 1, 2021 — The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that John Coates will serve as Acting Director of the agency’s Division of Corporation Finance.  Mr. Coates has been the John F. Cogan Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard University, where he also served as Vice Dean for Finance and Strategic Initiatives, and taught courses on corporate law and governance, securities regulation, and finance to lawyers, business students, and executives. He has written extensively on mergers and acquisitions, corporate gov...

January 25, 2021 2:11 PM ET Font Size: Before the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump beat some experts’ economic expectations and pursued policies that kicked the American economy into gear. During Trump’s four-year tenure as president, the American economy saw levels of growth and employment that beat the expectations of some economic experts in academia and government. Trump’s tax cuts, deregulation, and other economic policies helped business confidence soar, and led to larger disposable incomes for America’s poor and middle class before the coronavirus pandemic. Based on...