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Shareholder Protection: The Role of Multiple Large Shareholders
Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2015AbstractManuscript TypeEmpiricalResearch Question/IssueThis paper addresses the effect of having multiple large shareholders on shareholder protection. More specifically, we examine to what extent this effect depends on whether such large shareholders are beneficiary or fiduciary.Research Findings/InsightsAnalyzing longitudinal, hand‐collected data ...
Raul Barroso Casado +3 more
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Trading and Shareholder Voting
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019We study shareholder voting in a model in which trading affects the composition of the shareholder base. Trading and voting are complementary, which gives rise to self-fulfilling expectations about proposal acceptance and multiple equilibria. Prices and shareholder welfare can move in opposite directions, so the former may be an invalid proxy for the ...
Doron Levit +3 more
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Images of the shareholder – shareholder power and shareholder powerlessness
2015This chapter argues that effective regulation requires legal paradigms that accord with commercial reality, yet that some shareholder images are today seriously outmoded, and used selectively, inconsistently and used to achieve particular ends. The chapter assesses recent regulatory developments in the light of major changes to capital markets, whereby
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2007
The term ‘shareholder as such’ refers to those elements in the shareholder's position that relate to his typical original rights. These involve, first, the expectation that his investment will pay off at some time in the future, through selling his shares or receiving dividends (section I below: ‘the profit-oriented shareholder’).
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The term ‘shareholder as such’ refers to those elements in the shareholder's position that relate to his typical original rights. These involve, first, the expectation that his investment will pay off at some time in the future, through selling his shares or receiving dividends (section I below: ‘the profit-oriented shareholder’).
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2017
This chapter focuses on the position of shareholders in relation to a company. It considers the following issues: registration of membership; the powers of shareholders in relation to their company; the legal protection given to shareholders by the rules of equity and by the Companies Act 2006; and the payment of dividends to shareholders.
J. Scott Slorach, Jason Ellis
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This chapter focuses on the position of shareholders in relation to a company. It considers the following issues: registration of membership; the powers of shareholders in relation to their company; the legal protection given to shareholders by the rules of equity and by the Companies Act 2006; and the payment of dividends to shareholders.
J. Scott Slorach, Jason Ellis
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Large shareholders’ shareholding and earnings’ longitudinal persistence
Applied Economics Letters, 2018ABSTRACTThis paper is the first to adopt longitudinal data analysis methods, such as the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis model, hierarchical linear model and Cox proportional hazards regression model, to investigate the relationship between large shareholders’ shareholding and earnings persistence.
Qianhua Lei, Zhentao Liang, Huili Chen
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Law and Economics of Shareholder Rights and Ownership Structures: How Trivial are Shareholder Rights for Shareholders? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Law and Finance theory stresses the importance of shareholder rights for the reliability and development of capital markets. Many European Parliaments picked up this corporate governance issue. We expand the analysis of Lele and Siems (2007) and show that the number of shareholder rights grew steadily in many countries over the last fifteen years.
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Clustered shareholder activism
Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2013AbstractResearch Question/IssueThis study examines activism campaigns where multiple activists simultaneously target the same firm—which we term clustered shareholder activism. Despite the growing influence of shareholder activism on corporate governance, the clustered activism phenomenon has previously only been addressed indirectly, anecdotally, or ...
Tanja Artiga González, Paul Calluzzo
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Shareholder Democracy and Shareholder Activism
2019Abstract This chapter examines shareholder-driven corporate governance (SCG) through the twin concepts of shareholder democracy and shareholder activism. Taken together, these concepts are the vehicle through which SCG takes effect in practice.
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2016
This chapter considers shareholders’ agreements. It discusses the advantages of a shareholders’ agreement; drafting a shareholders’ agreement; legal limits on the use of shareholders’ agreements; and enforcing the agreement.
J. Scott Slorach, Jason Ellis
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This chapter considers shareholders’ agreements. It discusses the advantages of a shareholders’ agreement; drafting a shareholders’ agreement; legal limits on the use of shareholders’ agreements; and enforcing the agreement.
J. Scott Slorach, Jason Ellis
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