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Enforcing shareholders' duties edited by Hanne S. Birkmose, Konstantinos Sergakis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Elgar financial law.
- Elgar financial law series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stockholders--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Stockholders.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton Edward Elgar Publishing 2019
- Summary:
- A heavily debated topic, the evolution of shareholders' duties risks the transformation of the very concept of shareholder primacy, crucially associated with shareholder rights. Offering a distinctive and comprehensive examination of both current and forthcoming enforcement mechanisms in the area of shareholder duties, this timely book provides an exhaustive analysis of the many issues related to these mechanisms, and considers the ongoing challenges surrounding their implementation.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction
- PART I The contours of enforcement
- 2. Legal and economic rationales for shareholder duties and their enforcement
- 3. Duties imposed on specific shareholders only, and enforcement implications
- 4. Shareholder engagement duties: the European move beyond stewardship
- PART II The sources of enforcement
- 5. Contractual enforcement of shareholders' duties
- 6. Private vs public enforcement of shareholder duties
- 7. Legal vs social enforcement of shareholder duties
- PART III Sanctioning shareholders' duties
- 8. Enforcing shareholder duties through suspension of the exercise of voting rights
- 9. Financial sanctions for breach of shareholders' duties
- 10. The basis of shareholder liability for corporate wrongs
- PART IV Barriers to enforcement
- 11. Barriers to shareholder identification and entitlement
- 12. Barriers to the enforcement of shareholders' duties flowing from primary EU law
- 13. Jurisdictional barriers to enforcement
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78811-487-6
- OCLC:
- 1088739382
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