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Royce Barondes is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri, where he primarily teaches Business Organizations, Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation and Contracts.
After his graduation from St. Paul's School, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he first enrolled in a graduate class at the age of seventeen and was subsequently awarded Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering. Following receipt of a J.D. from the University of Virginia, he was an associate for 6-1/2 years at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, in New York City, where his practice emphasized representing investment banks in securities offerings.
He has authored or co-authored over fifteen law review works, in journals such as the George Mason Law Review, the Tulane Law Review and the Fordham Law Review. His research has focused on corporate law and securities law, with some emphasis on initial public offerings and the use of empirical techniques.
Before joining the MU faculty, he taught in the business schools of the University of Georgia and Louisiana State University.
Publications
Academic Journals
Services as Capital Contributions: Understanding Kovacik v. Reed, 3 ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 1 (2008).
Dynamic Economic Analyses of Selected Provisions of Corporate Law: The Absolute Delegation Rule, Disclosure of Intermediate Estimates and IPO Pricing, 7 DEPAUL BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 97 (1994).
The Bespeaks Caution Doctrine: Revisiting The Application of Federal Securities Law To Opinions and Estimates, 19 JOURNAL OF CORPORATION LAW 243 (1994).
Underwriters' Counsel as Gatekeeper or Turnstile: An Empirical Analysis of Law Firm Prestige and Performance in IPOs, with Charles Nyce and Gary C. Sanger, 2 CAPITAL MARKETS LAW JOURNAL 164 (2007).
Want Your Opinions Reversed? Hire a Yale Clerk (and Don't Require the Bar), U of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-8 (2008).
Law Firm Prestige and Performance in IPOs: Underwriters' Counsel as Gatekeeper or Turnstile (with Charles Nyce and Gary C. Sanger), CORI Working Paper No. 03-08 (2004).
