Enron's Legacies, A Decade And A Half Later

By Kevin LaCroix, RT ProExec (December 13, 2016, 3:30 PM EST) -- Fifteen years ago this month, the once high-flying energy company Enron completed its massive collapse when it filed a petition for bankruptcy protection. In his interesting Dec. 2, 2016, post on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Michael Peregrine of McDermott Will & Emery LLP takes a retrospective look at Enron's downfall and suggests a number of different ways that those events have continuing relevance. As I discuss further below, there are, in addition to the considerations Peregrine notes, a number of other continuing legacies of Enron....

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