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    "pk": 31584,
    "title": "Women and M&A",
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    "abstract": "<p><em>Corporations, law </em><em>fi</em><em>rms, and investment banks all state that diversity matters. This Article shows that there is a chasm between discourse and action. For the most important decisions undertaken by companies—large merger and acquisition (M&amp;A) transactions—a gender gap persists. This Article provides a holistic examination of the network of lead actors involved in M&amp;A, revealing that women’s leadership opportunities continue to be vastly unequal. Using hand-collected data from 700 transactions, this Article reveals that thirty years after women began to account for almost half of all law students, gender parity in M&amp;A leadership lags far behind. To illustrate, over a seven-year period, women make up on average 10.5% of lead legal advisors for buyers in large M&amp;A deals. Moreover, this Article documents the lack of transparency on leadership data for other players in M&amp;</em><em>A.</em><em> This Article argues that understanding, documenting, and disclosing the gender gap in M&amp;A leadership is critical for increasing accountability and for determining the solutions that may work to reduce such disparities.</em></p>",
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        "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.",
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            "first_name": "Afra",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Afsharipour",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2022-02-01T00:00:00Z",
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