This Conference will offer a context to reflect upon and better understand how the different nature of shareholders have an impact on the way companies are governed and managed...

The conference remembered 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 Mergers & Acquisitions Research Centre at Cass Business School hosted the Fourth Annual M&A Research Centre Conference on Monday 19 August 2019 at Cass Business School, London.

Corporations, and other forms of business associations, have been the subject of intense study including their history, governance, and obligations to stakeholders and the public at large...

The fifth annual GCGC conference took place at the House of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt. Attendance was by invitation only.

March 2019 marked 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...

ICGN and ECGI organised a one-day academic conference on 11 February 2019 in Amsterdam... 

The Roundtable focused on loyalty shares as a legal solution for encouraging long-term ownership, a concept that is gaining traction in Europe with the support of the European Commission, and has also attracted interest in the United States. 

This ECGI Roundtable was hosted by Hermes Investment Management on 25 October 2018. The Roundtable focused on the nature of governance interventions by institutional shareholders. 

The Roundtable focused on loyalty shares as a legal solution for encouraging long-term ownership, a concept that is promoted by policy makers, including the European Commission, some institutional investors and issuers. This event was by invitation only. Institutional and Patron members were invited.

The launch conference for the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance was held in Oxford on Friday May 11, 2018

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This academic conference focused on the theme of 'Institutional Investor Activism and Engagement'. 

The Roundtable focused on the role of foreign institutional investors and proxy advisory firms in promoting corporate governance and sustainable investment.

This research project, co-directed by Professor Luca Enriques (University of Oxford, Faculty of Law) and Professor Tobias Tröger (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt) has brought together top legal and finance scholars to reflect upon the role...

The 2nd Annual Cass M&A Conference took place on 22 August 2017 at Cass Business School (London)

This conference examines the many aspects of Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance, including activism, takeovers, competition, and liquidity.

The ECGI Annual Members Meeting 2017 took place on 27-28 April 2017 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The conference, held in Capri on 8-9 September 2016, aimed to bring together researchers from financial and labor economics to discuss issues from the point of view of both disciplines. 

The ECGI Asia Corporate Governance Dialogue (EACGD) took place in Tokyo on 7 August 2016.

The European Corporate Governance Research Foundation was officially launched on 31 May 2016 in Brussels.

The inaugural GCGC conference took place at Stanford University on 5 - 6 June 2015.

The second EU Asia dialogue series took place at the National University of Singapore on Tuesday 24 february 2015. The theme of the conference was Corporate Governance and Large Shareholders.