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2015
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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Shareholders Duties to the Company and Fellow Shareholders
European Company Law, 2011It is a principle of company law worldwide that shareholders - as opposed to a company's directors - may use their rights in their own interests. However, it may well be the case that shareholders do owe duties to other parties, like the company or their fellow shareholders.
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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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Responsible Ownership, Shareholder Value and the New Shareholder Activism [PDF]
Competition & Change, 2007 In this paper we use interview data to explore the ‘new shareholder activism’ of mainstream UK institutional investor We describe contemporary practices of corporate governance monitoring and engagement and how they vary across institutions, and explore the motivations behind them Existing studies of shareholder activism mainly assume that it is ...
John Roberts +3 more
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Shareholders and Board of Shareholders
2017The LLCs are established by the shareholders who fulfill their capital contributions to constitute the initial asset of the LLCs. On one hand, the Shareholders are treated as the owners of the LLCs based on which they can enjoy the profit and fundamentally control the management and business operation, on the other hand, the LLCs are defined as a legal
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Evasive shareholder meetings [PDF]
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2014 We study the strategic scheduling of annual shareholder meetings. When companies move their annual meetings a great distance from headquarters, they tend to experience pronounced stock market underperformance in the six months after the meeting and announce earnings below expectations over the subsequent year.
Yuanzhi Li, David Yermack, David Yermack
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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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