Adam Badawi

Adam Badawi is a Professor of Law at UC Berkeley. He writes widely on issues of law and finance with an emphasis on corporate governance, corporate transactions, and shareholder litigation. Much of his recent work uses text analysis and machine learning to analyze debt agreements, merger documents, and shareholder class action complaints. He teaches Contracts, Corporations, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Empirical Methods for Lawyers. His research includes “Does Voluntary Financial Disclosure Matter? The Case of Fairness Opinions in M&A,” The Journal of Law and Economics (2023) (with Matthew D. Cain and Steven Davidoff Solomon) (selected as one of the top 10 corporate and securities articles of 2023 by Corporate Practice Commentator), “How Informative is the Text of Securities Complaints?”, Journal of Law, Economics & Organization (2023), “Social Good and Litigation Risk,” Harvard Business Law Review (2022) (with Frank Partnoy); and “Is There a First-Drafter Advantage in M&A?”, California Law Review (2019) (with Elisabeth de Fontenay) (selected as one of the top 10 corporate and securities articles of 2019 by Corporate Practice Commentator). Prior to joining the faculty of Berkeley Law in 2017, Badawi was a Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. He has been a Visiting Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and he served as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. Before joining the academy he was a litigator in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP and was a law clerk to the Hon. Michael McConnell of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.