This conference at King’s College London will bring together standard setters to share experiences and good practices, enhance dialogue, guide scholarship, and shape future stewardship policy through evidence-based recommendations.
The conference remembers our late colleague Professor Brigitte Haar who passed away much too early this spring. Brigitte was Professor of Private German, European, and International Business Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt and an ECGI Research Member.
The 2019 ECGI Annual Members' Meeting will take place at IESE Business School, Barcelona on 24 October 2019.
This event at Downing College, University of Cambridge will consider the broader question of how best to incorporate ESG concerns into investment portfolios.
After 26 years in the insurance industry, and with extensive diverse international executive experience, Mrs. Gómez-Llorente has recently started a new phase of her career as Independent Non Executive Director.
In this new sphere, strong and effective corporate governance is a fundamental pillar. She is fluent in Spanish, English and French.
Parties to M&A transactions now commonly purchase insurance against breaches of the reps and warranties. In a forthcoming article, I study Representation and Warranty Insurance (“RWI”) in the U.S. market using two empirical methodologies. First, I survey nearly 100 market participants in...
Index funds and indexed ETFs managed by the “Big Three” – BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – have grown to be the largest investors in the capital markets and have become the presumptive “deciders” of corporate law controversies. With this prominence has come controversy. Commentators...
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have become the prevalent source of financing for start-up companies that use blockchain technology, raising more than 30 billion dollars in funding to date. In an initial coin offering, contributors make a financial contribution to a business venture or project and...
What are the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for corporate law? In this essay, we consider the trajectory of AI’s evolution, analyze the effects of its application on business practice, and investigate the impact of these...Read more
This paper explores the concept of abuse of law in the context of the choice of the state or country of incorporation: Can the choice of a particular jurisdiction constitute “abuse”? The case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (...Read more
This paper looks at the phenomenon of “defensive regulatory competition” in European corporate law following Centros, Überseering and Inspire Art. In order to retain control over the corporate governing private limited entities operating within...Read more
A new regulation issued in the end of 2013 as part of the anti-corruption campaign in China leads to a wave of resignation of politically connected independent directors (PCID). I find while firms with PCIDs have...Read more
This article is the first in a four-part summary of the conference which seeks to highlight some of the interesting new work and research...Read more
This article is the second in a four-part summary of the conference which seeks to highlight some of the interesting new work and research...Read more
This article is the third in a four-part summary of the conference which seeks to highlight some of the interesting new work and research...Read more
This article is the fourth in a four-part summary of the conference which seeks to highlight some of the interesting new work and research...Read more
Prof. Dan W. Puchniak presents his paper on "Related Party Transactions in Commonwealth Asia: Complicating the Comparative Paradigm" at the 2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Michael Klausner.
Prof. Vicente Cuñat presents his paper on "Active Owners and Firm Policies" at the 2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Oğuzhan Karakaş.
Prof. Jennifer Hill presents her paper on "Corporate Culture and Liability" at the 2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Edward Rock
Prof. Enrichetta Ravina presents her paper on "Investor Ideology" at the 2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Holger Spamann.
