Bloomberg Law Podcast, December 24, 2011 Host June Grasso
http://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/law/ (Inactive link; go to News Clips for article)
“There’s this perception that the SEC should be doing a lot more work on the fraud-prevention front, and if we want to go after individuals within companies engaging in fraud, the SEC should be doing it.”
The Daily Beast, July 18, 2011 by Josh Dzieza
http://bit.ly/qSY59P
Brooks likely also signed a confidentiality agreement, says Robert Bartlett, a professor at Berkeley Law. Not only would it keep her from talking about her employment at News Corp., it would keep her from talking about the settlement agreement that keeps her from talking about her employment at News Corp.
Los Angeles Times, April 21, 2011 by Jessica Guynn
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-winklevoss-lawsuit-20110421,0,6720470.story
The Winklevosses gave up all claims—even the ones they didn’t know about—when they entered into the agreement, said UC Berkeley law professor Robert Bartlett, citing the 9th Circuit opinion. “It sounds very much like a Hail Mary,” Bartlett said.
Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2011 by Jessica Guynn and Carol Williams
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-facebook-winklevoss-20110412,0,3506898.story
“If it is the case that the idea for Facebook was truly stolen from them, then they had a claim to pursue. But they chose to settle that claim,” UC Berkeley law professor Robert Bartlett said. “As an armchair psychologist, it seems to me they are motivated by the disappointment and anger that led to their first claim. That anger, I think, had to come to an end when they decided to settle with Facebook.”
Bloomberg Television, March 28, 2011 Host Cory Johnson
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/68085928/
“On the one hand, the SEC has a mandate to protect investors. I think they want to make sure that in the frenzy that is currently happening in the secondary markets that the investors are, in fact, getting the information that they need in order to assess whether these are valuable investments or not.”
Bloomberg Radio, January 15, 2011 Host June Grasso
http://www.bloomberg.com/radio/ (Inactive link. Go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)
“If the Winklevosses win, then they get none of the settlement consideration…. If they lose, they will get to keep the consideration in the settlement agreement, which based on the most recent evaluation of Facebook, would actually be worth about 150 million dollars plus, of course, the 20 million dollars in cash.”
New York Times, January 11, 2011 by Steven M. Davidoff
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/with-facebook-debate-renews-over-i-p-o-regulation/
In one study, Robert Bartlett, a Berkeley law professor, found that the overwhelming majority of companies bought by private equity firms still voluntarily complied with the provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley in order to issue debt to finance these acquisitions. In other words, investors liked the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, and companies willingly complied when they did not need to.
Los Angeles Times, January 4, 2011 by Jessica Guynn
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/04/business/la-fi-0104-facebook-20110104
“There’s this expectation that just like Google went through the roof, Facebook will too,” UC Berkeley law professor Robert Bartlett said.
Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2010 by Jessica Guynn
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-1230-facebook-20101230,0,4981671.story
“There is no question that the SEC is going to be concerned by the fact that you have a private company that makes no financial disclosures and yet has a relatively large trading volume,” UC Berkeley law professor Robert Bartlett said. “The SEC may push Facebook as much as it has the authority to do so to become a public company.”
The Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2010 by Jason Zweig
http://bit.ly/a3BV6a
“It was apparently very difficult even for institutional investors to contend with the amount and volume of noise in the market in 2008,” Prof. Bartlett says.