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spoken for years about shareholders rights. It is time toalso talk about shareholders' obligations'.This heralded a break … with the traditionalperception in company law that shareholders have no duties when they invest incompanies. However, on a … closer examination it will be seen that this change has beenon the way for some time now and discussions about shareholders …
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.The Act offers an answer to the question as a matter of corporate democracy, what do shareholders need to know about how … federal securities regulation. The Shareholders United Act (the “Act”) — passed by the House of Representatives as part of H … political spending, public companies poll shareholders on how they want corporate political dollars to be spent, or not spent …
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the EU to shareholders as active corporate governance gatekeepers and drivers of its long-term sustainability agenda. It … considerable normative gap between the EU narrative of engagement and the challenge of engaging shareholders away from self …
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Several countries legally mandate representation of workers on boards of directors. The evidence on the shareholder wealth effects of such a corporate governance design is mixed. I examine abnormal announcement returns around major milestones leading to the passing of the German Codetermination...
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The purpose of this introductory chapter is to map these shareholders' duties in order to provide an overview of … shareholders have no duties, is challenged on several fronts. First, the content and the context of the duties are manifold. Not …. Second, it is not possible to draw a homogenous picture of a shareholder's duties. The duties imposed on shareholders vary …
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“bundling,” or the joinder of more than one separate item into a single proxy proposal. Bundling deprives shareholders of the …
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Crowdfunding, a new Internet-based securities market, was recently authorized by federal and state law in order to create a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive system of entrepreneurial finance. But will people really send their money to strangers on the Internet in exchange for unregistered...
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The role and position of shareholders within a listed public company has been a subject of debate on both the national … conferred upon shareholders in such a company and, consequently, on the active or effective exercise of those rights by the same … shareholders. In this contribution, we focus on one particular core concept, namely the right that is conferred upon shareholders …
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Corporate bylaws are the new leading edge of a decades-long struggle between shareholders and managers over the … allocation of decision-making authority in public companies. Bylaws are the only method by which shareholders can unilaterally … in circumstances where shareholders' other core rights, i.e., the ability to exit the firm or sue its fiduciaries, are …
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-- the right for shareholders to nominate a candidates to a public firm's board of directors -- lies at the heart of … shareholder control and has far-reaching consequences in the balance of power between shareholders and managements.We use the …
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