Benjamin Means and Douglas Moll: Governance in Closely Held Corporations.

Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. In this episode, I talk with Profs Benjamin Means and Douglas Moll, who have focused most of their scholarship on matters relevant to closely held corporations. Benjamin Means is a Professor of Law and the John T. Campbell Chair in Business and Professional Ethics at the University of South Carolina School of Law. His research focuses on corporate governance and family-owned businesses. Douglas Moll is a Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. He is the co-author of a treatise on closely held corporations, three casebooks on business law, and a concise hornbook on business organizations. He has also written numerous law review articles focusing on closely held businesses and related fiduciary duty and oppression doctrines. In this podcast, we talk about corporate governance in closely held corporations in contrast to public corporations. We discuss the prominence of these companies in the U.S. and some of the core issues including shareholder oppression (also referred to as freeze-outs or squeeze-outs), conflicts of interest or related-party transactions, the role of independent directors and the evolution of these matters in courts and practice. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can also contribute as a Patron on the link patreon.com/BoardroomGovernancePod and you can subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com