This academic conference will focus on the theme of 'Differential Voting Shares'. Attendance is by invitation only.
ICGN and ECGI are organising a one-day academic conference on 11 February 2019 in Amsterdam...
March 2019 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the Centros case (C-212/97), without doubt the most influential judgment rendered by the (then) Court of Justice in the field of European company law...
The fifth annual GCGC conference will take place at Center for Financial Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt on 7 - 8 June 2019. The deadline for submissions is 14 September 2018. Attendance is by invitation only.
Over the past 20 years, hedge fund activism has become a powerful mechanism for influencing companies. Regulators, the business community, and the popular press debate whether activism enacts meaningful change or whether it is tactic for hedge funds to earn short-run profits. Several academic...
Much of our world is now built on the zeros and ones of computer code. “Code” forms the invisible architecture structuring many aspects of our everyday lives. Driving this “Digital Transformation” is an interconnected series of technological innovations that have re-shaped social, economic and...
It has become a familiar refrain post-Enron and post-2008 Financial Crisis that to be truly effective, the board of directors of a company needs to increase its role in the area of risk management and managerial oversight. But legal systems around the world increasingly recognize that boards...
Freezeout tender offers are offers by the controlling shareholders to purchase all publically traded shares. These going-private offers are suspect. Given controlling shareholders’ superior inside information, such offers might sometimes involve attempts of controlling shareholders to...
We examine the potential for management-worker alliances when employees have substantial voting rights, and how such alliances affect the balance of power between managers and shareholders. We find that substantial employee voting rights...Read more
We examine the effects of a law amendment in Israel in 2011 that imposes a set of minimum corporate governance standards on privately held firms that issue publicly traded bonds. Two main results emerge. First, consistent with US evidence, the...Read more
After decades of de-prioritizing shareholders' economic interests and low corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's "best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most pro table...Read more
This paper examines the effect of investor power in a model of staged equity financing. It shows how the usual effect where market power reduces valuations can be reversed in later rounds. Once they become insiders, powerful investors may use...Read more
International academics from the world’s leading universities arrived at Harvard this week to take part in the 2018 Global Corporate Governance...Read more
13 August 2018 – Brussels. The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) is delighted to welcome fifteen new institutional members to its...Read more
The 2018 ECGI Annual Member meeting featured a Focus Panel on "...Read more
The 4th Annual Conference of the Ibero- American Institute for Law and Finance will be held in Sao Paulo (Brazil), on December 13-14, 2018, under...Read more
Watch the welcome video for the 2018 Global Corporate Governance Colloquium at Harvard Law School.
Panel discussion on "CSR and Impact Investing: Framing the Questions" at GCGC 2018 in Harvard.
