Minority Shareholders in UK Law
- THE OPPRESSION OF MINORITY SHAREHOLDERS
- MINORITY SHAREHOLDERS AND CORPORATE IRREGULARITIES
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Do capital structure and cash holding expropriate minority shareholders? A case of non-financial concentrated firms in Pakistan
Purpose: One aspect of agency theory suggests that dominant shareholders use the firm’s assets for their personal benefits and 1thus expropriate minority shareholders (tunneling). Accordingly, this...
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Corporate Restructuring and Governance Implications: A Case Study of the Guoco Group
I study a series of restructuring activities undertaken by Guoco Group Limited in recent years and the implications on minority shareholders. The divestment of Dao Heng Bank Group to DBS Group reap...... ... on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) and the majority shareholders of other KLSE-listed Hong Le-ong Bank Bhd and HLG Capital Bhd); and ... the motivations behind the deals and the implications on the minority shareholders.Guoco has been achieving excellent bottom line results, ... ...
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REVIEWS
Final Appeal—A Study of the House of Lords in its Judicial Capacity. By Louis Blom‐Cooper and Gavin Drewry. Company Law and Capitalism. By Tom Hadden. Gore‐Browne on Companies, 42nd edition. By A. ...... ... , with reforms of their relations with their shareholders, their employees, and the Government. All this is admirable ... such subjects as alteration of the articles, agency, minority shareholders’ rights, directors’ duties and capital ... ...
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REVIEWS
Book reviewed in this article: Alan Brudner, The Unity of the Common Law: Studies in Hegelian Jurisprudence Andrew Grubb and Maxwell J. Mehlman (eds), Justice and Health Care: Comparative Perspecti...... ... Colin Crawford * Elizabeth Boros, Minority Shareholders’ Remedies, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, xlvi + ... ...
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Reviews
Joseph Raz, Ethics in the Public Domain Robert C. Palmer, English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348–1381: A Transformation of Governance and Law Brian Bix, Law, Language, and Legal Determinac...... ... Hazel Carty* Robin Hollington, Minority Shareholders’ Rights, 2nd edition, London: Sweet and Maxwell, ... ...
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Emerging Separation of Ownership and Control in Ethiopian Share Companies: Legal and Policy Implications
Ownership and control are often concurring attributes in the ordinary situation of property ownership. In the context of publicly held companies, a phenomenon occurs whereby the persons who own the...... ... The reason for this is that as the number of shareholders rises, control is delegated to managers, and shareholders are ... the deficiency of the Commercial Code in protecting the rights of minority shareholders in the context of such publicly held companies ... ...
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The Impact of Governmental Intervention on the Association Between Initial Public Offering and Future Stock Issuance
We examine the effect of initial public offering (IPO) characteristics on seasoned equity offering (SEO) decisions in relation to governmental intervention in China. Our results confirm the process...... ... We attribute these results to the conflict between the state and minority shareholders, which leads to high uncertainty and risk in ... ...
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Ownership structure and dividend policy in Indonesia
Purpose: This research aims to examine the effect of ownership structure on dividend policy using the Indonesian context. The most common ownership structure is concentrated in the hand of family o...... ... firms earnbenefit from those resources, but at the expense of minority shareholders. Thus, family firms engage inexpropriation to minority ... ...
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