March 12, 2018
Asaf Eckstein
Ono Academic College - Faculty of Law
104 Zahal St., Kiryat Ono, Israel, 55000
Academic Position
Lecturer at Ono Academic College, Faculty of Law, 2016 – Present
Academic Interests
Corporate Law, Securities Regulation
Education
Ph.D. - Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law, August 2014
LL.M. (Magna cum Laude) - Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law, 2010
LL.B. (Summa cum Laude, first in a class of 868) - Ono Academic College, Faculty of Law, 2009
Representative Publications (English)
“Toward a Horizontal Fiduciary Duty in Corporate Law”Cornell Law Review (2018) (with Prof. Gideon Parchomovsky)
“Skin in the Game: Aligning the Interests of Credit Rating Agencies, Proxy Advisors and Investors”7 Harvard Business Law Review221 (2017)
“Great Expectations: The Peril of Expectations Gap in Proxy Advisory Firm Regulation”40 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law77 (2015)
Representative Publications (Hebrew)
“Revisiting Materiality in Securities Regulation”Jerusalem Law Review (2018)(with Prof. Assaf Hamdani)
“Pre-Trial Settlements and Corporate Compliance Monitors”Bar-Ilan Law Review(2018)
“Dividends Distributions and the Business Judgement Rule”Bar-Ilan Law Review(2018)
“Regulatory Inertia and Interest Groups: Evidence from Securities Regulation” 30Bar-Ilan Law Review635(2016)
“Who Supervise the Israeli Securities Authority and Who Participates in its Regulation”19 IDC Law Review195 (2015)
“Mixed - Motives for Trade-Based Manipulation”17IDC Law Review 277 (2013)
Working Papers
“Long / Short Incentive Scheme for Proxy Advisory Firms” (with Prof. Sharon Hannes)
“The Upside of Common Ownership in Corporate Governance”
Visiting Positions
Columbia Law School – Visiting Scholar, Summer 2015
Harvard Law School – Visiting Researcher at the Program on Corporate Governance, Spring 2013
Academic Referee
Bar-Ilan University Law Review
Law & Business Academic Journal (IDC School of Law)
Academic Awards and Grants
Grant - The Raymond Ackerman Family Chair in Israeli Corporate Governance (2017).
Other Professional Experience
Special counsel to the Special Litigation Committee, appointed by Israel Chemicals Ltd. (2017)
Special counsel to the Special Litigation Committee, appointed by Bank Leumi (one of three Israeli banks embroiled in tax-evasion cases in the U.S.) (2015)
Special counsel to some of the largest companies in Israel
Zion Amir Law Office:Professional Internships + Associate (Member of Defence Team of the former President of the State of Israel, Mr. Moshe Katzav) (2009-2010)
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