Professor of Corporate Law and Governance; J M Keynes Senior Fellow in Financial Economics; Fellow and Director of Studies, Churchill College
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 a Global Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law with the University of Notre Dame, an Honorary Senior Fellow with the University of Melbourne and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He was formerly editor of the Journal of Corporate Law Studies, and is a former fellow of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance.
Selected publications
Books
Founders without Limits: Dual-Class Stock and the Premium-Tier of the London Stock Exchange, 2021)
Articles
"Deconstructing the "Anglo-American" Corporate Model (with B. Cheffins)" (2025) Harvard Business Law Review Forthcoming
"The UK and Dual-Class Shares: From Dual-Class Shares Lite to Full Fat" (2025) European Company Law Forthcoming
"Can Canada's Pension Model Cure the UK Stock Market's Doom Loop? (with B. Cheffins and K. Willey)" (2025) Company Lawyer 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
"Private Equity and Net Asset Value Loans - Ticking Time Bomb or Ticking All the Right Boxes?" (2025) Harvard Business Law Review 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
"Going Dutch? Comparing Regulatory and Contracting Policy Paradigms Via Amsterdam and London SPAC Experiences " (2024) 25 European Business Organization Law Review 721-764
"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
"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
"Deconstructing Private Equity Buyout Valuations" (2022) 8 Journal of Business Law 629-652
"Boxing Clever: Explaining UK and US Private Equity Locked Box Perspectives" (2022) 43 The Company Lawyer 385-393
"Thirty Years and Done – Time to Abolish the UK Corporate Governance Code (with Brian Cheffins)" (2022) 22 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 709-748
"Will Listing Rule Reform Deliver Strong Public Markets for the UK? (with Brian Cheffins)" (2022) The Modern Law Review
"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
"Up the Hill and Down Again: Constraining Dual-Class Stock" (2021) 80 Cambridge Law Journal 515-551
"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
"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
"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
"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
"The Fat Controller - Slimming Down the Excesses of Controlling Shareholders in UK Listed Companies " (2018) 38 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 733-763
"Locking the Box (2007) Real Deals"
Book Chapters
"Private Equity Valuations", The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Private Equity , 2023)
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