Research Catalog

Title

Enforcing shareholders' duties / edited by Hanne S. Birkmose, Professor, Department of Law, Aarhus University, Denmark; Konstantinos Sergakis, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Glasgow, UK.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Birkmose, Hanne S.
• Sergakis, Konstantinos, 1980-

Description

xiii, 293 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"A heavily debated topic, the evolution of shareholders' duties risks the transformation of the very concept of shareholder primacy, crucially associated with shareholder rights. Offering a distinctive and comprehensive examination of both current and forthcoming enforcement mechanisms in the area of shareholder duties, this timely book provides an exhaustive analysis of the many issues related to these mechanisms, and considers the ongoing challenges surrounding their implementation. [This book] is unique in critically challenging the revised Shareholder Rights Directive as well as other legal provisions. Adopting a holistic view of the possible enforcement issues shareholders may face in company law, it argues for a measured approach in the design of such enforcement mechanisms and for a careful consideration of the effects of a legal interventionist approach...[Chapters] provide arguments and recommendations for future regulatory initiatives aimed at ensuring shareholders will remain incentivised to invest in companies, whilst still assuming their responsibilities."--

Series Statement

Elgar financial law series

Uniform Title

Elgar financial law

Subject

• Europäische Union
• Stockholders > Legal status, laws, etc
• Stock ownership > Law and legislation
• Corporations > Finance > Law and legislation
• Corporation law
• Governance
• Unternehmensrecht
• Aktionär

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Legal and economic rationales for shareholder duties and their enforcement / Anita Anand and Christopher Pukas -- Duties imposed on specific shareholders only, and enforcement implications / Hanne S. Birkmose -- Shareholder engagement duties : the European move beyond stewardship / Christoph Van der Elst -- Contractual enforcement of shareholders' duties / Corrado Malberti -- Private vs public enforcement of shareholder duties / Iris H-Y. Chiu -- Legal vs social enforcement of shareholder duties / Konstantinos Sergakis -- Enforcing shareholder duties through suspension of the exercise of voting rights / Mette Neville and Karsten Engsig Sørensen -- Financial sanctions for breach of shareholders' duties / Jennifer Payne and Elizabeth Howell -- The basis of shareholder liability for corporate wrongs / Christian A. Witting -- Barriers to shareholder identification and entitlement / Matteo Gargantini -- Barriers to the enforcement of shareholders' duties flowing from primary EU law / Christoph Teichmann and Lothar Wolff -- Jurisdictional barriers to enforcement / Justin Borg-Barthet.

ISBN

• 9781788114868
• 1788114868
• 9781788114875 (eBook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018960566

OCLC

• on1055913094
• 1055913094
• SCSB-9318400

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library