This article analyses the recent Leica judgement of the Higher Regional Court Frankfurt/Mainand its consequences. In this judgement, the court has established an infringement of specialformal requirements with respect to Leica´s invitation to the Annual General Meeting which,if correct, would...

We analyze the determinants of shareholder participation in the annual shareholders' meeting using a sample of 126 listed German corporations over the period 2004-2006. Participation depends (unsurprisingly) on the ownership structure: it is negatively related to the fraction of voting equity...