The European Commission sees shareholder engagement as a cornerstone of the corporate governance model for listed companies. Shareholder engagement can to some extent be supported by legislation at national and EU levels. Some legislation is already in place, such as the Shareholders' Rights...

This paper studies the relationship between the Revlon duties and the principle of maximizing shareholders' interests, and its position under the systems of Corporate Law, and then identifies the characteristics of relevant laws in Japan and Delaware. When considering the duties of directors of...

Independent directors have emerged as the cornerstones of the worldwide corporate governance movement. Their increased presence in the boardroom has been hailed as an effective deterrent to fraud and mismanagement, inefficient use of resources, inequality and unaccountability of decisions; and...

We study when firms choose to install boards and their roles in a historical setting where neither boards nor their duties are mandated by law. Boards arise in firms with large, heterogenous shareholder bases. We propose that an important role of boards is to mediate between heterogenous...

This edition of the Law Digest for the World Bank Group's Sanctions Board presents structured summaries of the Sanctions Board's precedent as set out through more than 100 decisions issued since 2007. The Law Digest also includes key data relating to the work of the Sanctions Board and the World...