Purpose – The Stewardship Code, the first of its kind for the Financial Reporting Council, seeks to encourage better dialogue between shareholders and company boards. Given the UK market's role as a governance paragon, the code principles will be critical to practices of good stewardship...

The purpose of Wolf-Georg Ringe’s excellent paper is to revisit some of the aspects of the one share/one vote (OSOV) debate ‘in the light of the new protectionist fears that have surfaced since the beginning of the financial crisis.’ As he rightly notes, the recent financial crisis has...

Written by leading academics in the area, Pettet, Lowry & Reisberg's Company Law offers comprehensive coverage of all major company law and financial regulation topics. It also introduces you to the theories, policies and wider socio-economic and political influences that underpin the legal...

This study examines how UK pension fund trustees interpret the concept of their fiduciary duties in practice and how these interpretations may shape pension fund approaches to corporate stewardship and engagement as envisioned by the UK Stewardship Code. Using the data from 35 in-depth,...

A common feature of securities laws in developed countries is that they provide various types of private actions to enforce securities laws. In some countries recent law reform activity has added to the range of private law remedies available to investors. This trend suggests that policymakers...