Winner of the 2025 Rising Scholar Award from The Review of Financial Studies for "Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?" (December 2024).
Samuel B. Antill
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Samuel Antill is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Finance II course in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Antill’s research interests are in corporate finance, market design, and law and finance. His work evaluates the efficacy of the US corporate bankruptcy system. He also studies the efficiency of litigation financing and dark pools.
Professor Antill’s research interests are in corporate finance, market design, and law and finance. His work evaluates the efficacy of the US corporate bankruptcy system. He also studies the efficiency of litigation financing and dark pools.
Professor Antill earned a PhD in Finance from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Pomona College. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Samuel Antill is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Finance II course in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Antill’s research interests are in corporate finance, market design, and law and finance. His work evaluates the efficacy of the US corporate bankruptcy system. He also studies the efficiency of litigation financing and dark pools.
Professor Antill’s research interests are in corporate finance, market design, and law and finance. His work evaluates the efficacy of the US corporate bankruptcy system. He also studies the efficiency of litigation financing and dark pools.
Professor Antill earned a PhD in Finance from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Pomona College. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- Journal Articles
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- Antill, Samuel, and Megan Hunter. "Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy." Journal of Finance (forthcoming). View Details
- Antill, Samuel, and Christopher Clayton. "Crisis Interventions in Corporate Insolvency." Journal of Finance 80, no. 2 (April 2025): 875–910. View Details
- Antill, Samuel. "Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?" Review of Financial Studies 37, no. 12 (December 2024): 3595–3647. (RFS Rising Scholar Best Paper Award; Lead Article and Editor's Choice.) View Details
- Antill, Samuel, and Steven R. Grenadier. "Financing the Litigation Arms Race." Journal of Financial Economics 149, no. 2 (August 2023): 218–234. View Details
- Antill, Samuel. "Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy?" Journal of Financial Economics 144, no. 2 (May 2022): 523–546. View Details
- Antill, Samuel, and Darrell Duffie. "Augmenting Markets with Mechanisms." Review of Economic Studies 88, no. 4 (July 2021): 1665–1719. View Details
- Antill, Samuel, and Steven R. Grenadier. "Optimal Capital Structure and Bankruptcy Choice: Dynamic Bargaining vs Liquidation." Journal of Financial Economics 133, no. 1 (July 2019): 198–224. View Details
- Working Papers
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- Antill, Samuel, Murat Alp Celik, Xu Tian, and Toni M. Whited. "The Efficiency of Patent Litigation." Working Paper, May 2024. (Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Finance.) View Details
- Antill, Samuel, Neng Wang, and Zhaoli Jiang. "Creditor-on-Creditor Violence and Secured Debt Dynamics." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32823, August 2024. (Reject & Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies.) View Details
- Antill, Samuel, and Aymeric Bellon. "The Real Effects of Bankruptcy Forum Shopping." Working Paper, December 2024. View Details
- Antill, Samuel, Ashvin Gandhi, Jessica Bai, and Adrienne Sabety. "Healthcare Provider Bankruptcies." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33763, May 2025. View Details
- Antill, Samuel, and Joseph Kalmenovitz. "Much Ado About Nothing? Overreaction to Random Regulatory Audits." Working Paper, August 2023. View Details
- Antill, Samuel. "Investment Timing with Costly Search for Financing." Working Paper, December 2017. View Details
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Antill, Samuel, Marco Sammon, and Erik Stafford. "First Citizens' Acquisition of SVB." Harvard Business School Case 225-092, May 2025. (Revised June 2025.) View Details
- Mugford, Kristin, Stuart C. Gilson, and Samuel Antill. "Hertz in Bankruptcy: A Wild Ride in Pandemic Times." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 222-713, April 2022. (Revised December 2022.) View Details
- Antill, Samuel, and Erik Stafford. "Leverage and Liquidity at Silicon Valley Bank." Harvard Business School Case 224-062, January 2024. (Revised January 2024.) View Details
- Antill, Samuel, Stuart Gilson, and Kristin Mugford. "Hertz in Bankruptcy: A Wild Ride in Pandemic Times." Harvard Business School Case 222-064, February 2022. (Revised March 2022.) View Details
- Antill, Samuel, and Ted Berk. "Introduction to Capital Structure Analytics." Harvard Business School Technical Note 222-061, January 2022. View Details
- Awards & Honors
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- Additional Information