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Italian Companies’ Policy for Dialogue With Investors: New Principles Issued by Assonime

The Italian 2020 Corporate Governance Code is one of the first European codes (together with the Spanish and the Dutch ones) that require—although on a comply or explain basis—listed companies...

4 October 2021

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

Governance Bodies Endorse Value Preservation as Primary Purpose and Fiduciary Duty

Common sense would suggest that the delivery of sustainable stakeholder value over the long-term requires a focus on both value creation and value preservation. Logic would therefore command that in...

23 March 2021

Sean Lyons

The New Geographies of Corporate Law Production

Writing about the past trajectories and future prospects of corporate law production amidst the COVID-19 crisis presents several challenges, above all with regard to motivation and justification. In other words,...

26 May 2020

Dionysia Katelouzou

Peer Zumbansen

Shareholder Stewardship Amidst of Covid-19: The Future of Enforcement

The Covid-19 global pandemic is already having profound ramifications upon companies, the economy and society at large. Shareholders, stakeholders (employees, customers, NGOs and others) as well as ultimate beneficiaries are...

15 May 2020

Dionysia Katelouzou

Konstantinos Sergakis

Transnational Corporate Governance: The State of the Art and Twenty-First Century Challenges

‘Seriously?’, you might think. A paper about the history and future prospects of corporate governance amidst Covid-19? Why would two corporate law scholars think that their reflections on how in...

1 May 2020

Dionysia Katelouzou

Peer Zumbansen

Institutional Investor Stewardship in the Netherlands

Shareholder engagement takes a central role in corporate governance and is the focal point of many (soft) regulatory initiatives to stimulate long-term value creation. It is also one of the...

15 April 2020

Christoph Van der Elst

Anne Lafarre

Shareholder Stewardship in India

Stewardship codes have proliferated around the world during the last decade. It is possible to attribute the driving philosophy behind this phenomenon to the pioneering effort in the form of...

11 March 2020

Umakanth Varottil

Shifting Contours of Directors’ Fiduciary Duties and Norms in Comparative Corporate Governance

The problems in global financial markets are often similar, even though the capital market structure across jurisdictions differs significantly. The beginning of the 21st century was marked by a spate of...

26 February 2020

Jennifer Hill

The New Paradigm

With the adoption this week of The UK Stewardship Code 2020, to accompany The UK Corporate Governance Code 2018, the UK Financial Reporting Council has promulgated corporate governance, stewardship and...

26 October 2019

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Italian Companies’ Policy for Dialogue With Investors: New Principles Issued by Assonime

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

Governance Bodies Endorse Value Preservation as Primary Purpose and Fiduciary Duty

The New Geographies of Corporate Law Production

Shareholder Stewardship Amidst of Covid-19: The Future of Enforcement

Transnational Corporate Governance: The State of the Art and Twenty-First Century Challenges

Institutional Investor Stewardship in the Netherlands

Shareholder Stewardship in India

Shifting Contours of Directors’ Fiduciary Duties and Norms in Comparative Corporate Governance

The New Paradigm

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