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Covering expert reports of nineteen jurisdictions across four continents, this Handbook re-examines the positions of shareholders in a comparative, global, and empirical setting. Useful for researchers, policymakers, and corporate professionals, it shows how shareholders use their voting rights to finance the activities of their companies.
List of contents
Introduction: 1. Shareholder voting and engagement: an introduction Chao Xi and Anne Lafarre; Part I. Asia: 2.Shareholder voting and engagement in China Chao Xi; 3. Shareholder engagement and voting in Hong Kong Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin; 4. Shareholder engagement and voting in India Harpreet Kaur; 5. Corporate governance and shareholder engagement practices in Indonesia: a shifting paradigm Ulya Yasmine Prisandani and Kartika Paramita; 6. Shareholder engagement and voting in Japan Gen Goto; 7. Shareholder engagement and voting in Singapore Wai Yee Wan; 8. Shareholder engagement and voting in South Korea Seung Young Yoon; 9. Shareholder voting and engagement in Taiwan Chang-Hsien Tsai and Chao-Tsung Huang; Part II. Australia and North America: 10. Shareholder engagement and voting in Australia Roman Tomasic and Anil Hargovan; 11. Shareholder engagement and voting in Canada Poonam Puri and Ankita Gupta; 12. Shareholder engagement in the United States Vikramaditya S. Khanna; Part III. Europe: 13. Shareholder democracy in Denmark: contrasting law on the books and law in practice Hanne S. Birkmose and Karsten Engsig Sørensen; 14. Shareholder engagement and voting in France Christoph Van der Elst; 15. Shareholder engagement in Germany Florian Möslein and Christopher Rennig; 16. Shareholder engagement and voting in Greece Vassilis Tountopoulos and Rigas Giovannopoulos; 17. Shareholder engagement and voting in Italy Gaia Balp and Giovanni Strampelli; 18. Shareholder voting and engagement in Norway Berte-Elen Konow; 19. Shareholder voting and engagement in the Netherlands: the Dutch institutional approach Anne Lafarre; 20. Shareholder engagement and voting in the United Kingdom Suren Gomtsyan; Part IV. Comparative Perspectives: 21. Shareholder engagement and corporate voting in a comparative perspective Anne Lafarre; 22. Shareholder engagement and corporate voting in action: the comparative perspective Christoph Van der Elst; 23. Shareholder engagement and voting: where does the future lie? Chao Xi.
About the author
Harpreet Kaur is Professor of Law and Director, Centre for Corporate Law and Governance at National Law University, Delhi. She teaches corporate law, securities and antitrust laws. She has been a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at MDC, Miami, and Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Scholar at Emory Law School. She has co-authored and edited many law books as well as conducted research in her areas of expertise.Chao Xi is Professor of Law and chairs the CCTL Corporate Law and Governance Cluster at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He is co-author of Corporate Governance and Legal Reform in China (2009) and Doing Business in China (3rd ed. 2009; 4th ed. 2016). His empirical research on shareholder voting and engagement has attracted significant funding support from funding agencies and regulatory bodies.Christoph Van der Elst was among the first scholars studying shareholder voting and engagement (see Attendance of Shareholders in European Business Organization Law Review, 2004) and has built a long track record in this research field. He is Professor of Business Law and Economics at Tilburg University and Ghent University, and as an independent director and member of an audit committee he is also familiar with how corporate voting and governance work in action.Anne Lafarre is Associate Professor at the Business Law Department at Tilburg University. She also teaches at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science in 's-Hertogenbosch. Her recent research focuses on the use of modern technologies in corporate law, including the modernization of the AGM and shareholder engagement, shareholder sustainability activism and shareholder voting from a comparative perspective.
Summary
Covering expert reports of nineteen jurisdictions across four continents, this Handbook re-examines the positions of shareholders in a comparative, global, and empirical setting. Useful for researchers, policymakers, and corporate professionals, it shows how shareholders use their voting rights to finance the activities of their companies.
Foreword
Provides insights on shareholder voting and engagement in nineteen jurisdictions using comparative legal and empirical analyses.
