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The Jurisdiction Trade: How the Migration From Delaware Rewrote the Shareholder’s Right to Inspect, to Sue, and to Propose—and What Institutional Investors Must Demand Before the Next Reincorporation Vote

"Every forensic conclusion Buxton Helmsley has ever published rests, somewhere in its chain of evidence, on a document that someone was legally obligated to produce. Compelled disclosure—whether mandated by the securities laws or extracted by a stockholder exercising a statutory inspection right—is the quiet foundation of the entire enterprise of investor advocacy. Financial statements can be reconstructed, footnotes can be parsed, and filings can be compared across periods—but the moment an analysis moves from what a company disclosed to what a company knew, the work depends on a statutory instrument that compels a board to open its records to the people who own the enterprise. In American corporate law that instrument has a name, a century of case law, and, until very recently, a steadily expanding scope."

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