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.
Silvana Glibota-Vigo joined FirstGroup as Deputy Company Secretary in January 2017. She qualified as a lawyer in Argentina and Spain. She has an interest in international relations and is a fellow of ICSA: the governance institute. She’s been working in corporate governance since 2004 and for UK premium listed companies, including British Land, Royal Mail, Prudential and Man Group, since 2006.
Large investors often have market power in private equity markets, such as in venture capital, growth capital, or private placements. The conventional wisdom is that powerful investors can flex their muscles to enforce lower company valuations, at the expense of owners and previous investors.....
Endowment funds are repositories for gifts and operating surpluses generated by non-profit organizations. Often described by their parent organizations as “nest eggs” or “rainy day funds,” endowments invest in stocks, bonds, and alternative asset classes, and they pay income to their parents to...
In appraisal cases, shareholders have the right to have a judge determine the “fair value” of their shares. These cases bring economic analysis into sharp focus in judicial proceedings as shareholders and companies argue over the appropriate metrics to use in determining fair value as courts...
Policymakers and investors around the world have been increasingly emphasizing the importance of effective corporate governance systems. Corporate governance refers to the structure of rights and responsibilities among the parties with a stake in the firm. Effective corporate governance uses...
The big corporate governance debates nowadays concern the corporation’s time horizons, and the balance of power between shareholders and managers. In response to actual and anticipated pressure from shareholder activists – typically, activist...Read more
A number of recent corporate law scandals (including the Wells Fargo fraudulent accounts scandal, the Volkswagen emissions scandal, sexual harassment claims at Fox News and CBS, and various banking scandals currently under investigation in a high...Read more
This paper provides an overview of the academic literature on the market for corporate control, and focuses specifically on firms’ performance around and after a takeover. Despite the aggregate M&A market amounting to several trillions USD on...Read more
Existing research on opinion shopping focuses primarily on managers’ attempts to switch auditors in order to avoid the receipt of an unfavorable audit opinion. We extend this literature by examining whether managers successfully shop for auditors...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.
