Comparative corporate governance has focused either on prevailing differences across
legal systems or on spontaneous legal transplants of foreign institutions in response to …

Since the UK adopted the world's first stewardship code in 2010, stewardship codes have
proliferated across Asia. Given the UK Code's prominence, it is tempting to assume that …

Abstract In 2010, the United Kingdom issued the world's first stewardship code. Since then,
stewardship codes have been issued in many of the world's leading economies and now …

Shareholder lawsuits comprise two categories: direct suits and derivative actions. While
singling out derivative actions as the quintessential minority shareholder protection …

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Described by the US Attorney General as “kleptocracy at its worst,” 1MDB, a Malaysian state-
owned company, was a vehicle for theft of billions by the former prime minister for nine …

Optimal takeover regulation aims to promote efficient changes of corporate control while
curbing inefficient takeovers. Viewed from a comparative perspective, the Anglo-American …

The" corporate purpose" debate, while extremely important, has largely been built on an
understanding of corporate law and governance that is local jurisdiction bound while the …

Minority shareholder protection constitutes a fundamental pillar of corporate law. Although
corporate democracy operates within the rather pragmatic notion of “majority rule,” 2 legal …

As demonstrated by one of the authors elsewhere, UK-style shareholder stewardship is a
'global legal misfit'because it was designed for a jurisdiction with dispersed shareholding …