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U.K. Executive Compensation is Lower Than in the U.S., but Let’s Not Be So Quick to Blame Regulation

10 June 2024

Bobby Reddy

From Dual-Class Shares-Lite to Full Fat: The FCA’s Potential About-Turn on Dual-Class Shares

20 June 2023

Bobby Reddy

The Locked Box—UK v US Private Equity M&A Perspectives

17 October 2022

Bobby Reddy

Why it is Time to Say Goodnight to the UK Corporate Governance Code

The Cadbury Committee’s trailblazing 1992 Code of Best Practice has had a profound impact on corporate governance over the past three decades. Governance codes have proliferated throughout the...

21 June 2022

Brian R Cheffins

Bobby Reddy

Resuscitating the London Stock Exchange

Whichever way you look at it, the London Stock Exchange is in secular decline. The number of companies listed on the exchange’s Main Market has fallen from over 4,400 in...

1 June 2022

Brian R Cheffins

Bobby Reddy

The UK’s Dual–Class Shares Reforms – Failing to Throw off the Shackles

Dual–class shares structure is where a company constitutes two or more classes of shares to which are attached different levels of voting rights. Since the rights to distributions or capital...

30 January 2022

Bobby Reddy

The Emperor’s New Code? Time to Re-Evaluate the Nature of Stewardship Engagement Under the UK’s Stewardship Code

Since 2010, the UK’s Stewardship Code has encouraged institutional investors to proactively engage with the boards of the companies in which they are invested (issuers) to pre-emptively identify and resolve...

24 March 2021

Bobby Reddy

Finding the British Google: Relaxing the Prohibition of Dual-Class Stock from the Premium-Tier of the London Stock Exchange

There is a dearth of British tech-companies listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and the LSE lacks a large, innovative tech-company such as Google. The UK Government has pinpointed...

2 April 2020

Bobby Reddy

The Fat Controller - Slimming Down the Excesses of Controlling Shareholders in UK Listed Companies

It has become fashionable to extoll the benefits of an incumbent controlling shareholder in companies. Indeed, many of the failures of the stewardship movement, that encourages shareholders in UK listed...

24 November 2017

Bobby Reddy

U.K. Executive Compensation is Lower Than in the U.S., but Let’s Not Be So Quick to Blame Regulation

From Dual-Class Shares-Lite to Full Fat: The FCA’s Potential About-Turn on Dual-Class Shares

The Locked Box—UK v US Private Equity M&A Perspectives

Why it is Time to Say Goodnight to the UK Corporate Governance Code

Resuscitating the London Stock Exchange

The UK’s Dual–Class Shares Reforms – Failing to Throw off the Shackles

The Emperor’s New Code? Time to Re-Evaluate the Nature of Stewardship Engagement Under the UK’s Stewardship Code

Finding the British Google: Relaxing the Prohibition of Dual-Class Stock from the Premium-Tier of the London Stock Exchange

The Fat Controller - Slimming Down the Excesses of Controlling Shareholders in UK Listed Companies

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