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Muddy Waters’ Answer to the French Woerth Report on Shareholder Activism in Europe

Carson Block

On October 2, 2019, a parliamentary mission from the French Finance, General Economy and Budgetary Control Commission submitted a report about the development of activism in Europe. This report aimed...

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Corporate Governance
M&A

The Threat of Intervention

Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos

One of the fundamental issues in modern corporate finance is the problem of separation of firm ownership from control. The gap between management and shareholders is potentially wide, and the danger...

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Commercial Law
Corporate Finance

Shareholder Sustainability Activism in the Netherlands

Anne Lafarre | Christoph Van der Elst

The present and the future generations depend on a sustainable society. Companies have a large impact on our society and play a large role in achieving sustainability goals. In this context, the role...

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Competition/ Antitrust
Corporate Governance

Institutional Investor Voting Behavior: A Network Theory Perspective

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Alessandro Romano

It is received wisdom that institutional investors have insufficient incentives to cast informed votes because they compete on relative performance. If BlackRock invests in the monitoring of one of...

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