Shareholder Power Conference

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Location

NUS Law School, Singapore

This Conference was part of a larger project on Shareholder Power arising out of a collaboration between the National University of Singapore (NUS) Centre for Law & Business and the Vanderbilt University Law and Business Program. The Conference aimed to bring together leading scholars from around the world to discuss the issue of Shareholder Power from a variety of perspectives.

This Conference built upon the success of an earlier conference organized by Professor Randall S. Thomas, which was held at Vanderbilt Law School in September 2013. The research produced at the two conferences was published as a Research Handbook on Shareholder Power co-edited by Professor Jennifer Hill and Professor Randall S. Thomas and published by Edward Elgar in 2014. The European Corporate Governance Institute has partnered with NUS Law and Vanderbilt Law School to promote this research project.

Please see link below for conference photos. 

https://law.nus.edu.sg/ewbclb/events/Shareholder_Power2014/conference_photos.html

Programme

Thursday, 6 March 2014
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Tea break

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Break

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The Future of Japanese Corporate Governance: Japan's Internal Governance and Development of Japanese-Style External Governance through Engagement

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Lunch

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Shareholder Power in America, 1800-2000: A Short History

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The Theory and Practice of Corporate Voting at U.S. Public Companies

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Tea break

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The Power of Shareholders

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Friday 7 March 2014
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Hedge Fund Activism in Europe: Does Privacy Matter?

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Institutional Investor Activism in a Context of Concentrated Ownership and High Private Benefits of Control: the Case of Italy

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Tea break

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Shareholders and Shareholder Power in Germany

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Corporate Control & Governance after a Decade from “Novo Mercado”: Changes in Ownership Structures and Shareholder Power in Brazil

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Photo-taking session

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Lunch

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Break

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Tea break

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Independent Directors and Controlling Shareholders

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Speakers

Dan Puchniak

Professor
Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law
Research Member

Randall Thomas

John S. Beasley Professor of Law and Business
Vanderbilt University Law School and Owen School of Management
Research Member

Luh Luh Lan

Associate Professor
National University of Singapore
Research Member

Umakanth Varottil

Professor of Law
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Research Member

Randall Thomas

John S. Beasley Professor of Law and Business
Vanderbilt University Law School and Owen School of Management
Research Member

Marco Becht

Professor of Finance and the Goldschmidt Professor of Corporate Governance
Solvay Brussels School for Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles
Fellow, Research Member

Ronald Masulis

Scientia Professor in Finance
UNSW School of Business, University of New South Wales
Research Member

Mathias Siems

Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation
European University Institute
Research Member

Margaret Blair

Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise
Vanderbilt University Law School
Research Member

Jennifer G. Hill

Bob Baxt AO Chair in Corporate and Commercial Law
Monash University
Research Member
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