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Proxy Solicitation and Shareholder Director Nominations in Brazil : A Comparative Analysis of Instrução CVM No 481/09

Robert, Bruno - 2011

Commission (CVM) on December 2009. Article 28 provides the right for shareholders to include nominees for the board of directors … material about shareholders’ rights, voting and proxy soliciting, resulted in an irrecusable invitation to confront what was …

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Legal Protection of Minority Shareholders of Listed Corporations in Brazil : Brief History, Legal Structure and Empirical Evidence

Meyerhof Salama, Bruno; Prado, Viviane Muller - 2013

protection to minority shareholders in Brazilian listed corporations. Section I examines the history of minority shareholders … current legal framework for the protection of minority shareholders. It analyzes the most important provisions under the … shareholders. The data shows that judicial and administrative application of such legal provisions is still relatively …

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Target Board’s Conduct and Shareholders Rights in the Context of Hostile Takeovers in China : A Case Study of Vanke v Baoneng

Kruszewska, Ewa - 2019

Vanke, the biggest Chinese real estate developer, has recently become a target of an unsolicited takeover attempt by Baoneng Group. While the battle is still ongoing, practitioners and scholars from all over the world are in waiting on the further development of events. At the moment it seems...

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Determinants of Minority Shareholder Rights in the Thai Banking Sector

Kanthapanit, Chinnapat - 2011

This paper describes the results of a study supported by the Thai Stock Exchange, that examined the relationship of five factors, family ownership, legal protection for investors, corporate governance practice of shareholder rights, cash flow and bank performance, to minority shareholder rights...

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Offensive Shareholder Activism in U.S. Public Companies, 1900-49

Cheffins, Brian R. - 2011

“Offensive shareholder activism” involves buying up sizeable stakes in underperforming companies and agitating for changes predicted to increase shareholder returns. Though hedge funds are currently highly publicized practitioners of this corporate governance tactic, there has been no...

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A Review of the Legal and Financial Implications of Going Private : What Shareholders, Boards, and Employees of Public Companies Need to Know

Burnett, Kevin - 2012

This article attempts to disentangle the various issues a public company should consider when answering the question: “to go or not to go private?” It provides a review of the literature with an eye towards coverage of the main questions a practitioner would ask. The article explores factors...

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What's Wrong with Shareholder Empowerment?

Sharfman, Bernard S. - 2012

is the shifting of decision making from the board of directors and executive management to shareholders …

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Recent Developments in Judicial Settlement of Disputes Involving Mass Shareholder Claims Towards Listed Companies : Global, European and Croatian Perspective

Čulinović Herc, Edita - 2013

shareholders'/investors' suits work out in regulatory environment of the US and some EU countries, as well as point out what …

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Underwriting Fees and Shareholder Rights

Ulupinar, Bahar - 2013

Do firms' governance provisions affect their terms of obtaining external financing? We hypothesize that it is more difficult for firms with more restrictions on shareholder rights to raise external equity, and that since analyst coverage is an important part of underwriting services,...

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Governance Mechanisms and Agency Conflicts between Managers and Shareholders : Evidence from Australia

Truong, Thanh - 2013

This paper focuses on the links that exist between corporate governance attributes and equity agency conflicts for the top 500 Australian listed firms. Our proxies for equity agency conflicts (asset utilisation and discretionary operating expense ratios) vary significantly across firms and are...

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