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The law of successor criminal liability is simple-corporate successors are liable for the crimes of their predecessors. Always. Any corporation that results from any merger, consolidation, spin-off, etc., is on the hook for all the crimes of all the corporations that went into the process. Such a coarse-grained, one-track approach fails to recognize that not all reorganizations are cut from the same cloth. As a result, it skews corporate incentives against reorganizing in more socially beneficial ways. It also risks punishing corporate successors unjustly.
Recommended Citation
Mihailis E. Diamantis,
Successor Identity,
36
Yale J. on Reg.
(2019).
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