The Voice of Corporate Governance
CII’s podcast is one of many platforms CII offers members to access timely information and perspectives and to increase public attention to critical issues and developments in corporate governance and capital markets. The target audience for our podcast is CII Members, other institutional investors, public companies, securities lawyers, proxy advisory firms and other institutional investor service providers.The podcast is free to the public and available on all major podcast listening platforms, and is not sponsored or paid for by advertisements.
The Voice of Corporate Governance
SPACs and the Need for Investor Protection with Professor Usha Rodrigues
In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Usha R. Rodrigues from the University of Georgia Law School. Professor Rodrigues is the co-author of a 2011 research paper on special purpose acquisition companies or SPACs, is currently conducting ongoing, active research into SPACs and in May testified before U.S. Congress at a hearing entitled “Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and the Need for Investor Protections.”