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Professor of Corporate Law and Governance; Chair of the MCL Examiners; Fellow and Director of Studies, Churchill College; J M Keynes Senior Fellow in Financial Economics; Fellow, Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance

BA (Cantab), MA (Cantab), LLM (Cantab), PhD (Cantab), Qualified to practice as a solicitor in England & Wales, State Bar of California, USA

Interests

Corporate governance, cross-border transactions, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions

Research centres and interest groups

CV / Biography

Bobby Reddy lectures in company law, corporate governance, private equity, and transactional deals, and is a J M Keynes Senior Fellow in Financial Economics. Previously, Professor Reddy was a corporate partner at the global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, dividing his time between the London and Washington D.C. offices. He specialised in public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investment funds, financial regulation, cross-border transactions, and company representation. After leaving Latham & Watkins, Professor Reddy served as a senior consultant, and subsequently on the board as a trustee, of Tomorrow's Company, a charitable corporate governance think-tank focused on enabling business to be a force for good in society. Professor Reddy conducts research on a variety of topical corporate governance, private equity, and company law themes, including matters relating to the efficiency, operation and innovation of the capital markets, and the real-world impact of regulatory approaches and policies. He has published extensively on dual-class stock, special purpose acquisition companies, corporate governance, the health of the London Stock Exchange and on stock exchange dynamics generally, and he is the author of the book on dual-class stock, “Founders Without Limits” published by Cambridge University Press.  He has also been cited or quoted in numerous mainstream publications, including Bloomberg, The Guardian, the Financial Times, The Observer, City A.M. and Reuters.  Professor Reddy is on the editorial board of the Journal of Corporate Law Studies, is a Global Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law with the University of Notre Dame, and is a former fellow of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance.

Publications

 

Books

Founders without Limits: Dual-Class Stock and the Premium-Tier of the London Stock Exchange (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Articles

"Can Canada's Pension Model Cure the UK Stock Market's Doom Loop? (with B. Cheffins and K. Willey)" (2025) Company Lawyer Forthcoming

Co-Author/s:
Brian Cheffins and Kim Willey
Citation:
(2025) Company Lawyer Forthcoming
Published: Forthcoming

"Getting in a Bind - Comparing Executive Compensation Regulations in the US and the UK" (2024) 14 Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law 1-29

Citation:
(2024) 14 Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law 1-29
Published: Aug 2024

"Private Equity and Net Asset Value Loans - Ticking Time Bomb or Ticking All the Right Boxes?" (2025) Harvard Business Law Review Forthcoming

Citation:
(2025) Harvard Business Law Review Forthcoming
Published: Forthcoming

"The UK and Dual-Class Stock-Lite – Is It Really Even Better than the Real Thing? " (2024) 25 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 77-106

Citation:
(2024) 25 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 77-106
DOI:
10.1515/til-2024-0005
Published: Dec 2023

"Going Dutch? Comparing Regulatory and Contracting Policy Paradigms Via Amsterdam and London SPAC Experiences (2024) European Business Organization Law Review Forthcoming"

Published: Forthcoming

"Murder on the City Express - Who Is Killing the London Stock Exchange's Equity Market (with Brian Cheffins)" (2023) 44 The Company Lawyer 215-226

Co-Author/s:
Brian Cheffins
Citation:
(2023) 44 The Company Lawyer 215-226
Published: Jun 2023

"Law and Stock Market Development in the UK Over Time: An Uneasy Match (with Brian Cheffins)" (2023) 43 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 725-752

Co-Author/s:
Brian Cheffins
Citation:
(2023) 43 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 725-752
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqad019
Published: Jun 2023

"Deconstructing Private Equity Buyout Valuations" (2022) 8 Journal of Business Law 629-652

Citation:
(2022) 8 Journal of Business Law 629-652
Published: Oct 2022

"Boxing Clever: Explaining UK and US Private Equity Locked Box Perspectives" (2022) 43 The Company Lawyer 385-393

Citation:
(2022) 43 The Company Lawyer 385-393
Published: Oct 2022

"Thirty Years and Done – Time to Abolish the UK Corporate Governance Code (with Brian Cheffins)" (2022) 22 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 709-748

Co-Author/s:
Brian Cheffins
Citation:
(2022) 22 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 709-748
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2022.2140496
Published: Sep 2022

"Will Listing Rule Reform Deliver Strong Public Markets for the UK? (with Brian Cheffins)" (2022) The Modern Law Review

Co-Author/s:
Brian Cheffins
Citation:
(2022) The Modern Law Review
DOI:
http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12758
Published: Jul 2022

"Warning the UK on Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs): Great for Wall Street but a Nightmare on Main Street" (2022) 22 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 1-44

Citation:
(2022) 22 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 1-44
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2022.2036413
Published: Jun 2022

"Up the Hill and Down Again: Constraining Dual-Class Stock" (2021) 80 Cambridge Law Journal 515-551

Citation:
(2021) 80 Cambridge Law Journal 515-551
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S000819732100101X
Published: Sep 2021

"The Emperor’s New Code? Time to Re-Evaluate the Nature of Stewardship Engagement Under the UK’s Stewardship Code" (2021) 84 The Modern Law Review 842-873

Citation:
(2021) 84 The Modern Law Review 842-873
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12636
Published: Jun 2021

"More than Meets the Eye: Reassessing the Empirical Evidence on US Dual-Class Stock" (2021) 23 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 955-1017

Citation:
(2021) 23 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 955-1017
Published: Aug 2020

"Finding the British Google: Relaxing the Prohibition of Dual-Class Stock from the Premium-Tier of the London Stock Exchange" (2020) 79 Cambridge Law Journal 315-348

Citation:
(2020) 79 Cambridge Law Journal 315-348
DOI:
10.1017/S0008197320000379
Published: Feb 2020

"Thinking Outside the Box – Eliminating the Perniciousness of Box-Ticking in the New Corporate Governance Code " (2019) 82(4) The Modern Law Review 692-726

Citation:
(2019) 82(4) The Modern Law Review 692-726
DOI:
10.1111/1468-2230.12415
Published: Jul 2019

"The Fat Controller - Slimming Down the Excesses of Controlling Shareholders in UK Listed Companies " (2018) 38 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 733-763

Citation:
(2018) 38 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 733-763
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqy024
Published: Dec 2018

"Locking the Box (2007) Real Deals"

Published: Sep 2007

Book Chapters

"Private Equity Valuations", The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Private Equity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Publisher:
ISBN 13:
978-3-030-38738-9
Published Jul 2023

"Foreword" (with V. Aithala, F. Adityani, J. Gallagher, S. Khanijow, S. Peter de Souza), Designing a Socially Responsible Law Firm in India (2018) (EBC Publishing, 2018)

Book Reviews

Mergers, Acquisitions and International Financial Regulation: Analysing Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (2022) 81 Cambridge Law Journal 442-445

DOI:
10.1017/S0008197322000435
Published Sep 2022

The Law of Private Investment Funds (2018 ) 33 Journal of International Banking Law & Regulation 467

Published Dec 2018

Case Notes

Credit Where Credit's Due: The Supreme Court Take on Directors' Duties and Creditors' Interests (note on BTI 2014 L.L.C. v Sequana S.A. and others [2022] UKSC 25) (with Pedro Shilling de Carvalho) (2023) 82 Cambridge Law Journal 17-20

Co-Author/s:
Pedro Shilling de Carvalho
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197323000120
Published: Apr 2023

Blog Posts

Reports

Selling Less of the Family Silver: An Independent, Post Election Manifesto for a Better UK Innovation and Industrial Policy (2024) (with David Connell)