This paper analyses lawsuits against shareholders' resolutions according to the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) and … lawsuit is pending with a court. In particular, mergers have to be implemented without any delay. The minority shareholders … voting power of minority shareholders and create incentives to use the real option inefficiently. Therefore, the majority …

announcement events. Takeover announcements are not random because managers decide rationally whether to bid or not, this indicates … conditional model the results indicate that after controlling for the self-selection bias effect, shareholders of bidder firms …

.S. But we argue that outside investors in European listed firms with controlling shareholders are poorly protected compared … shareholders rather than shielding passive investors, is not well suited for controlled, listed firms. This approach translates … into a lack of definition and development of specific fiduciary duties of the controlling shareholders towards market …

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of blockholders (large shareholders) in …

a greater likelihood of goodwill impairment. Overall, our findings indicate that controlling shareholders increasingly … expropriate minority shareholders through self-serving corporate takeovers after the stock pledge …

We investigate the relation between corporate governance characteristics of hostile takeover targets and the choice to … employ 'harmful' resistance that is not perceived as being motivated by shareholders' interests. We find that harmful …

costs, to quantify the return to inversion for different shareholders. Foreign and tax-exempt investors, along with the … taxable shareholders. The model illustrates an agency conflict in which heterogeneity in personal taxes generates a wealth … transfer between shareholders. Furthermore, personal taxes offset the loss in government revenue by 39% …