Annual Members Meeting 2007

Annual Members Meeting 2007

  • 18 - 19 April 2007
  • •
  • Frankfurt, Germany

The ECGI's fifth General Assembly took place on Thursday 19 April 2007 at the Institute for Law and Finance, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt. It was followed by a keynote speech The New Vote Buying by Professor Bernard Black and an Oxford Union-style debate on the motion “This House believes that long-term shareholders should have double voting rights” proposed by Bertrand Collomb, Chairman of Lafarge and opposed by Guy Jubb, Head of Corporate Governance, Standard Life Investments. A full report will appear here in due course.

See a guide to Oxford Union debates and a brief history of the Union.

The Egon Zehnder International Prize was won by Jeffrey N. Gordon, Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law, Columbia Law School and ECGI with:

Independent Directors and Stock Market Prices: The New Corporate Governance Paradigm (ECGI Law Working Paper No. 074/2006)

The Standard Life Investments Finance Prize was won by Belen Villalonga, Finance Unit, Harvard Business School and Professor Raphael Amit, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania with: 

Benefits and Costs of Control-Enhancing Mechanisms in U.S. Family Firms (ECGI Finance Working Paper No.131/2006)

The De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize was won by Marcel Kahan, School of Law, New York University and Edward Rock, School of Law, University of Pennsylvania with:

Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control (ECGI Law Working Paper No. 076/2006)

Information

Address:
Institute for Law and Finance, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
Contact:
Elaine McPartlan
European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
admin@ecgi.org

19 April 2007

15:45
- 17:15

Annual General Meeting - Institute for Law and Finance, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt

17:45
- 17:55

Open Meeting - Introduction

17:55
- 18:40

Annual Lecture - The New Vote Buying

Speakers:
20:00

Dinner at the 'Casino' on Campus Westend and Presentation of the 2007 ECGI Working Paper Series Prizes

Speakers

Bertand Collomb

Presentations

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Annual Lecture - The New Vote Buying

Time:
17:55h
- 18:40h

Speakers

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Oxford Union-style Debate - This House believes that long-term shareholders should have double voting rights

Time:
18:40h
- 19:55h

Speakers

Bertand Collomb