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Assistant Professor
Law School

brian.quinn@bc.edu

Office Location
Law School M531

617.552.2202

BACKGROUND

Brian JM Quinn joined Boston College Law School in 2008. He teaches Corporations, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Deals.  Prof. Quinn's research focuses on corporate law, the structuring of transactions, and private ordering.

Prof. Quinn comes to the law school from Stanford Law School where he was the Teaching Fellow for Corporate Governance & Practice.  Prior to his position at Stanford, Prof. Quinn was in private practice with Cooley Godward in Palo Alto, where he represented public and private technology clients in merger and acquisitions transactions. Prof. Quinn also previously served as country coordinator for the Harvard University’s Institute for International Development, managing Harvard’s Vietnam-based teaching and research activities.  Prof. Quinn got his start as a legislative aide to Senator Edward M. Kennedy working on health and education issues.

Prof. Quinn writes on corporate law, transaction structures and private ordering.  In addition, Prof. Quinn has written extensively on issues of legal reform in post-Socialist Asia, particularly Vietnam.

Prof. Quinn also blogs on legal developments in corporate governance and mergers & acquisitions at the M&A Law Prof Blog.

This year, Prof. Quinn received the 2011 Professor Emil Slizewski Award for Faculty Excellence.

EDUCATION

BSFS, Georgetown University; MPP, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; JD, MLS, Stanford Law School

COURSES

Fall 2011: Corporations; Corporations Lab
Spring 2012: Deals: The Economic Structure of Transactions; Mergers and Acquisitions

WORKS IN PROGRESS

• Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is:  The Performance of Earnouts in Merger Agreements
• Reviving Substantive Coercion and the Proper Limits of Board Authority

PUBLICATIONS

• "Shareholder Lawsuits, Status Quo Bias, and Adoption of the Exclusive Forum Provision." UC Davis Law Review 45, no.1 (November 2011): 137-191.
  
• Re-evaluating the Emerging Standard of Review for Matching  Rights in Control Transactions (forthcoming, Fall 2011, Del. Journal of Corporate Law)
• "Optionality in Merger Agreements." The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 35, no.3 (2010): 789-828.
• "Normalizing Match Rights: Comment on In re Cogent, Inc. Shareholder Litigation."Harvard Business Law Review Online 1 (2010).
• "Asset Specificity and Transaction Structures: A Case Study of @Home Corporation."Harvard Negotiation Law Review  15 (Spring 2010): 77-113.
  
• "The Failure of Private Ordering and the Financial Crisis of 2008."New York University Journal of Law and Business 5, no.2 (Summer 2009): 549-615.
  
• With Vu T. Anh. "Credit and Trust: Fruit Markets in the Mekong Delta."   Ha Noi, Viet Nam: United Nations Development Programme, 2008. 
  
• "Bulletproof: Mandatory Rules for Deal Protection." Journal of Corporation Law 32, no.4 (Summer 2007): 865-886.
  
• "Vietnam's Last Call for Bribes." Far Eastern Economic Review (June 1, 2006): 52-54.
  
• "Vietnam’s Continuing Legal Reform: Gaining Control over the Courts." Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 4, no.2 (Summer 2003): 431-468
  
• Note, “Legal Reform and Its Context in Vietnam.” Columbia Journal of Asian Law 15, no.2 (Spring 2002): 219-291.