Resources

  • B Lab’s Benefit Corporation Website. Loads of useful information for attorneys, businesses and investors
  • Benefit Company Bar Association Website.
  • Social Enterprise Law Tracker. State-by-state information about legal forms available to operate businesses free of shareholder primacy.
  • Seattle University Law Review Symposium Issue: Benefit Corporations and the Firm Commitment Universe.  Articles from academics around the world about B Lab and benefit corporations.
  • ABA Benefit Corporation White Paper (registration required). Analysis of the relevant issues and history from the prestigious Committee on Corporate Laws
  • The Public Benefit Corporation Guidebook: Understanding and Optimizing Delaware’s Benefit Corporation Model (registration required).  Free guide for lawyers advising Delaware corporations on benefit corporation issues.

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  • Additional  articles by Frederick Alexander:

An Honorable Harvest: It Is Time for Universal Owners to Take Responsibility for Their Portfolios (2019)

Saving Investors from Themselves: How Shareholder Primacy Hurts Everyone, Seattle University Law Review (2017)

Activism, Etsy, Whole Foods and Benefit CorporationsWestlaw Journal Corporate Officers and Directors Liability (August 7, 2017)

Whose Portfolio Is It, Anyway? Stetson Law Review (2017)

Next Phase for Benefit Corporation Governance Begins, Westlaw Journal Securities Litigation and Regulation (2017)

How Investors Really Feel about B CorpsB the Change (May 24, 2017)

M&A Under Delaware’s Public Benefit Corporation Statute: A Hypothetical Tour

Liquid Investment; Lasting ValueB The Change (February 9, 2017)
 
Moving Beyond Shareholder PrimacyHarvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (January 9, 2017)
 
 
The Capital Markets and Benefit CorporationsBusiness Law Today (July 2016)