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Does mandatory shareholder voting prevent bad acquisitions?
Becht, Marco; Polo, Andrea; Rossi, Stefano - In: The review of financial studies 29 (2016) 11, pp. 3035-3067
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Does mandatory shareholder voting prevent bad acquisitions?
Becht, Marco; Polo, Andrea; Rossi, Stefano - 2015
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Minority Shareholders' Enforcement of Corporate Governance in Takeovers : An English Law Perspective on the Belgian Fortis Bank Case
Lee, Joseph - 2016
The Fortis Bank takeover court case demonstrates how shareholders' claims can make a merger and takeover case less … speedy and, indeed, more costly. The case also raises a number of legal issues relating to corporate governance in a takeover …-market efficiency and social-legal justice in intervening in a financial takeover. The case reveals the divergent views taken by the two …
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Mergers and the Evolution of Patterns of Corporate Ownership and Control : The British Experience
Cheffins, Brian R. - 2010
An intense academic debate has arisen recently concerning the crucial bedrock that underpins a corporate governance regime where widely-held public companies dominate. In the discourse, little has been said about the contribution of merger activity. The paper seeks to address this gap by...
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Shareholder Primacy and the Trajectory of UK Corporate Governance
Armour, John - 2011
Core institutions of UK corporate governance, in particular those relating to takeovers, board structure and directors' duties, are strongly orientated towards a norm of shareholder primacy. Beyond the core, in particular at the intersection of insolvency and employment law, stakeholder...
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Ownership Dispersion and the London Stock Exchange’s 'Two-Thirds Rule' : An Empirical Test
Cheffins, Brian R.; Koustas, Dmitri; Chambers, David - 2012
In the UK, in contrast to most other countries, a hallmark of corporate governance is a separation of ownership and control. There is evidence suggesting that this pattern may have been the norm in Britain as far back as the late 19th century. This paper investigates the extent to which law, in...
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
This paper examines the origins of investor protection under the common law by analysing the development of shareholder protection in Victorian Britain, the home of the common law. In this era, very little was codified, with corporate law simply suggesting a default template of rules....
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
This paper examines the origins of investor protection under the common law by analysing the development of shareholder protection in Victorian Britain, the home of the common law. In this era, very little was codified, with corporate law simply suggesting a default template of rules....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523499
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Boards' Response to Shareholders' Dissatisfaction : The Case of Shareholders' Say on Pay in the UK
Alissa, Walid - 2015
In 2002, the United Kingdom adopted a regulation allowing shareholders to cast non-binding (advisory) votes on their firm's Directors' Remuneration Report during annual general meetings (the 'Say-on-Pay' rule). This study evaluates a decade of this regulation and examines how it affected the...
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Three centuries of corporate governance in the UK
Turner, John D. - 2024
As articulated by Adam Smith, one of the central issues facing companies is that managers will not run the business in the interests of its owners and will misuse resources. This ultimately has a detrimental consequence for the wealth of the nation. This survey reviews the nature and evolution...
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