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Governing institutional investor engagement: from activism to stewardship to custodianship? 管理机构投资者参与:从激进主义到管理再到托管?
IF 1.1 4区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2021-08-17 DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2021.1965338
Andrew Johnston, Rachelle Belinga, B. Segrestin
ABSTRACT Institutional investor engagement with companies is a long-standing goal of policymakers. This article evaluates whether the UK's regulatory and soft law regime is likely to orient engagement towards its goal of long-termism and sustainability. After a historical overview, it notes that institutional investors have considerable discretion in whether and how they engage with companies. Three existing forms of engagement behaviour (termed agency, trusteeship and ownership) are identified, and the article examines whether the current regime promotes or discourages them. All three may degenerate into passivity, short-term share trading or ‘bad activism’ focused on short-term value maximisation, satisfying the actors in the investment chain but failing to steer companies towards long-termism and sustainability. The article concludes that the roles of shareholders and company management should be articulated more clearly in the stewardship regime, and puts forward a custodianship model of engagement that balances managerial autonomy and accountability.
摘要机构投资者与企业的互动是决策者的长期目标。本文评估了英国的监管和软法律制度是否有可能将参与导向其长期主义和可持续性的目标。在对历史进行概述后,它指出,机构投资者在是否以及如何与公司合作方面有相当大的自由裁量权。确定了三种现有的参与行为形式(称为代理、托管和所有权),文章考察了现行制度是促进还是阻碍了它们。这三者都可能退化为被动、短期股票交易或专注于短期价值最大化的“不良激进主义”,满足投资链中的参与者,但未能引导公司走向长期主义和可持续性。文章的结论是,股东和公司管理层的角色应该在管理制度中得到更明确的阐述,并提出了一种平衡管理自主权和问责制的监管参与模式。
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Towards an optimal model of directors’ duties in the zone of insolvency: an economic and comparative approach 走向破产区董事职责的最佳模式:一种经济和比较方法
IF 1.1 4区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2021-08-13 DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2021.1943934
Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez

ABSTRACT

When a company becomes factually insolvent but it is not yet subject to a formal insolvency proceeding, the shareholders - or the directors acting on their behalf - may engage, even in good faith, in various forms of behaviour that can divert or destroy value at the expense of the creditors. For this reason, many jurisdictions impose special directors’ duties in the zone of insolvency. From a sample of more than 25 countries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific, this article seeks to explore the most common regulatory models of directors’ duties in the zone of insolvency existing around the world. It concludes by providing various policy recommendations to design directors’ duties in the zone of insolvency across jurisdictions taking into account international divergences in corporate ownership structures, debt structures, level of financial development, efficiency of insolvency proceedings, and sophistication of the judiciary.

【摘要】当一家公司在事实上资不抵债,但尚未进入正式的破产程序时,股东或代表股东的董事可能会采取各种形式的行为,即使是出于善意,这些行为可能以损害债权人的利益为代价,转移或破坏公司的价值。出于这个原因,许多司法管辖区在破产区规定了特别董事的职责。本文从北美、欧洲、拉丁美洲、非洲、中东和亚太地区超过25个国家的样本中,试图探索世界各地现有的破产区董事职责最常见的监管模式。最后,在考虑到公司所有权结构、债务结构、金融发展水平、破产程序效率和司法复杂程度的国际差异的情况下,提出了各种政策建议,以设计跨司法管辖区破产领域的董事职责。
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Section 29A of India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code: an instance of hard cases making bad law? 印度《破产法》第29A条:难案难法?
IF 1.1 4区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2021-07-15 DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2022.2083771
M. R. Ram Mohan, Vishakha Raj
ABSTRACT The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) of India which offers a mode of reorganisation for distressed corporations prevents promoters and directors with non-performing assets from submitting plans to rescue their company. This provision is contained under section 29A of the IBC. Judicial interpretation has required corporate reorganisations under India's Companies Act to give effect to the limitations under section 29A as well. The introduction and application of section 29A is reflective of a broader scepticism towards allowing promoters and directors whose companies entered financial distress from regaining control. This article evaluates whether section 29A has addressed the problems it had set out to and finds that some ineligibilities prescribed for the incumbent management under section 29A can be relaxed. It also uses the example of the United Kingdom's insolvency regime (with which India bears similarities) to explain why resolution plans from the incumbent management should not be disallowed.
印度的破产和破产法(IBC)为陷入困境的公司提供了一种重组模式,阻止了不良资产的发起人和董事提交拯救公司的计划。这项规定载于《国际商业惯例》第29A条。司法解释要求根据印度公司法进行的公司重组也必须遵守第29A条规定的限制。第29A条的引入和适用,反映了一种更广泛的怀疑态度,即允许公司陷入财务困境的发起人和董事重新获得控制权。本文评估第29A条是否解决了它所提出的问题,并认为可以放宽第29A条为现任管理层规定的一些不合格条件。它还使用了英国破产制度的例子(与印度有相似之处)来解释为什么现任管理层的解决方案不应该被拒绝。
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Simplified corporations and entrepreneurship 简化企业和创业
IF 1.1 4区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2021.1973712
Alvaro Pereira
ABSTRACT The World Bank's Doing Business project encourages the reduction of business registration requirements to stimulate entrepreneurship and economic development. Over the last two decades, it has contributed to the harmonisation of these requirements worldwide, but the rates of newly registered firms have not always followed through. Its unparalleled influence and emphasis on procedural reforms shadowed the development and comparative evaluation of alternative incentives to entrepreneurship. This article contributes to filling this gap, by empirically examining the impact of simplified corporations, legal forms designed to stimulate entrepreneurial activity in Chile and Colombia. These new corporate forms provide not only abbreviated registration and operation rules, but also single ownership and the ability to issue classes of shares, two features that remain unavailable in many jurisdictions. The results confirm that company law reforms – both procedural and substantive – are insufficient to significantly increase the annual number of newly registered firms. Still, simplified corporations have quickly become entrepreneurs’ preferred legal form in those countries, contributing to expanding new businesses’ access to external finance.
世界银行《营商环境报告》项目鼓励降低企业注册要求,以刺激创业和经济发展。在过去的二十年里,它促进了这些要求在世界范围内的协调,但新注册公司的比率并不总是遵循。其无与伦比的影响和对程序改革的强调使发展和比较评价替代企业家精神的激励措施黯然失色。本文通过实证研究简化公司的影响,在智利和哥伦比亚旨在刺激创业活动的法律形式,有助于填补这一空白。这些新的公司形式不仅提供了简化的注册和操作规则,而且还提供了单一所有权和发行股票类别的能力,这两个特征在许多司法管辖区仍然不具备。结果证实,公司法改革——无论是程序性的还是实质性的——都不足以显著增加每年新注册公司的数量。不过,在这些国家,简化公司已迅速成为企业家青睐的法律形式,有助于扩大新企业获得外部融资的渠道。
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Related party transactions by directors/managers in public companies: a data-supported analysis 上市公司董事/经理的关联交易:数据支持的分析
IF 1.1 4区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2021.1940681
A. A. Gözlügöl
ABSTRACT Related party transactions (RPTs) are a primary way for corporate insiders to expropriate company value. Conventional wisdom in corporate law theory holds however that RPTs entered into by directors/managers (rather than controlling shareholders) are of lesser concern in both controlled and dispersedly-owned companies. This article challenges this conventional wisdom and puts forward various other theories under which RPTs entered into by directors/managers remain a significant concern in terms of value-diversion in both share-ownership structures. The article then presents hand-collected data of RPTs entered into by directors/managers who are not significant/controlling shareholders in companies listed on the prime standard of the German stock exchange. This dataset and its evaluation provide preliminary indications and exploratory evidence regarding the threat posed by RPTs entered into by abovementioned persons. Furthermore, up-to-date share-ownership data of those companies and several findings regarding disclosure practices are provided. The article closes with proposing a few regulatory improvements and implications.
关联交易是企业内部人侵占公司价值的主要方式。然而,公司法理论中的传统观点认为,董事/经理(而非控股股东)签订的RPT在受控公司和分散所有公司中都不那么受关注。本文挑战了这一传统观点,并提出了其他各种理论,根据这些理论,董事/经理参与的RPT在两种股权结构中的价值转移仍然是一个值得关注的问题。然后,文章介绍了在德国证券交易所基本标准上市的公司中,非重要/控股股东的董事/经理手工收集的RPT数据。该数据集及其评估提供了关于上述人员参与的RPT所构成威胁的初步迹象和探索性证据。此外,还提供了这些公司的最新股权数据以及关于披露做法的一些调查结果。文章最后提出了一些监管改进和启示。
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Promotion of group restructuring and cross-entity liability arrangements 促进集团重组和跨实体责任安排
IF 1.1 4区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2021-05-13 DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2021.1925484
I. Kokorin
ABSTRACT Modern enterprises often operate as interconnected groups of companies. This is facilitated by various cross-entity liability arrangements, which aim at risk mitigation and control, and may contribute to the reduced agency cost of debt. However, they pierce limited liability (cross-guarantees) or impose correlation between the fates of separate entities (intercompany cross-defaults and ipso facto clauses). They can promote group exposure and disincentivise debtors from taking early actions to avoid insolvency. This paper explores the tools that are embraced to address these problems to achieve group restructuring. They include restrictions of cross-entity ipso facto clauses and extension of enforcement stays to group entities. I examine the ex ante and ex post effects of group liability arrangements, make a comparative overview of national law responses and suggest recommendations to find a balanced approach to cross-entity liability arrangements, enhance the existing legal regimes and form the basis for future reforms of insolvency laws.
摘要现代企业通常是相互关联的公司集团。这得益于各种跨实体责任安排,这些安排旨在减轻和控制风险,并可能有助于降低债务的代理成本。然而,它们穿透了有限责任(交叉担保)或在独立实体的命运之间强加了相关性(公司间交叉违约和自身事实条款)。它们可以促进集团风险敞口,抑制债务人尽早采取行动避免破产。本文探讨了解决这些问题以实现集团重组的工具。其中包括对跨实体本身条款的限制,以及对集团实体的强制执行中止的延长。我审查了集团赔偿责任安排的事前和事后影响,对各国法律的回应进行了比较概述,并提出了一些建议,以找到一种平衡的方法来处理跨实体赔偿责任安排,加强现有的法律制度,并为破产法的未来改革奠定基础。
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Transnational corporations and modern slavery: Nevsun and beyond 跨国公司与现代奴隶制:Nevsun及其后
IF 1.1 4区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2021-04-23 DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2021.1916186
Akshaya Kamalnath
ABSTRACT A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada Nevsun Resources Ltd. v Araya, has brought the issue of transnational corporations’ responsibility for human rights violations to the forefront in Canada. After critically examining the decision, this article aims to propose an effective legislative design for Canada. The article also examines another pertinent decision (this one from the UK), Vedanta Resources plc. v Lungowe in this regard. The proposals for effective legislation in Canada set out in this article will also be relevant for other countries considering the introduction of (or amending) modern slavery laws.
摘要加拿大Nevsun Resources有限公司诉Araya一案最近的判决将跨国公司对侵犯人权行为的责任问题带到了加拿大的最前沿。在对该决定进行批判性审查后,本文旨在为加拿大提出一个有效的立法设计。文章还考察了另一个相关的决定(这一决定来自英国),韦丹塔资源有限公司。v Lungowe。本条中提出的加拿大有效立法建议也将适用于其他考虑引入(或修订)现代奴隶制法律的国家。
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London Allowing dual class Premium listings: A Swedish comment 伦敦允许双重高级房源:瑞典评论
IF 1.1 4区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2021-04-14 DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2021.1968993
Erik Lidman, Rolf Skog
ABSTRACT In the UK Listing Review it is suggested that the LSE should allow companies with dual class share (DCS) structures to list on the Premium segment. In this paper, we discuss this proposal. First, we present an overview of the DCS-debate together with the proposition in the Review to allow for DCS-listings under certain conditions. Second, we discuss the arguments that are made against DCS-listings. For the sake of comparison and reference, we then give an overview of the Swedish DCS-regulation. From there, we discuss the conditions for DCS-listing recommended in the Review. Our conclusion is that several of the DCS-listing conditions suggested might not only hinder DCS-structures from being useful for companies that wish to utilise such structures but would in several cases disable the corporate governance mechanisms that would otherwise counteract several of the problems that DCS-structures can give rise to, most prominently the market for corporate control.
摘要英国《上市评论》建议伦敦证交所允许具有双重股权结构的公司在溢价板块上市。在本文中,我们讨论了这一建议。首先,我们概述区议会的辩论,以及检讨中关于在某些条件下允许区议会上市的建议。其次,我们讨论反对DCS上市的论点。为了便于比较和参考,我们对瑞典DCS法规进行了概述。在此基础上,我们讨论了审查中建议的DCS上市条件。我们的结论是,所提出的几个分布式控制系统上市条件不仅可能阻碍分布式控制系统结构对希望使用此类结构的公司有用,而且在某些情况下会使公司治理机制失效,否则,这些机制将抵消分布式控制系统结构可能引发的几个问题,最突出的是公司控制权市场。
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Institutional investors as environmental activists 作为环保活动家的机构投资者
IF 1.1 4区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2021-04-06 DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2021.1881356
Tom Giles Kelly
ABSTRACT Climate change mitigation has presented a serious problem for global regulators. An area that is emerging from a collection of legislative initiatives of the European Commission is the role of institutional investors in holding companies accountable for decisions that have a climate change impact. These legislative initiatives are the Revised Shareholder Rights Directive, Disclosures Regulation, Taxonomy Regulation and Revised Benchmarks Regulation. The article analyses each piece of legislation critically and seeks to describe their cumulative effect in terms of what is required of institutional investors. This article argues that these legislative initiatives will, together, create a normative expectation that institutional investors adopt, to a greater extent than has been previously observed, the role of activist with respect to the climate change impacts of investee companies. The article then describes the possibility of enforcement of this normative expectation by non-State actors.
气候变化减缓已经成为全球监管机构面临的一个严重问题。欧盟委员会(European Commission)一系列立法举措中正在出现的一个领域是,机构投资者在让企业对影响气候变化的决策负责方面的作用。这些立法举措是修订股东权利指令,披露法规,分类法规和修订基准法规。本文批判性地分析了每一项立法,并试图根据对机构投资者的要求来描述它们的累积效应。本文认为,这些立法举措将共同创造一种规范的期望,即机构投资者在更大程度上采用激进分子对被投资公司气候变化影响的作用,而不是之前所观察到的。文章随后描述了非国家行为体执行这一规范性期望的可能性。
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Towards an optimal composition of bail-inable debtholders? 寻求可保释债券持有人的最佳组合?
IF 1.1 4区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2021.1908808
Edoardo D. Martino
ABSTRACT The core insight of the new EU framework for bank resolution is to allocate losses to bank's insiders (bail-inable creditors). This affects both financial stability and the corporate governance of banks. The current academic debate on bank resolution overlooks the relevance of identifying the investors in bail-inable securities (ie who is going to bear losses) and the role of counterparty risk. This article identifies the investors that are better suited to hold those instruments and highlights the trade-offs between the corporate governance role and the threat to financial stability posed by different investors. The article demonstrates that the composition of bail-inable debtholders matters and shows – empirically and theoretically – a transition towards a desirable composition of holders; although a considerable room for improvement remains. This exercise deepens the understanding of the impact of the resolution framework and the importance of counterparties for its credibility and future applications.
欧盟银行处置新框架的核心观点是将损失分配给银行内部人士(可保释债权人)。这既影响金融稳定,也影响银行的公司治理。目前关于银行清算的学术辩论忽视了识别可保释证券的投资者(即谁将承担损失)和交易对手风险的作用的相关性。本文确定了更适合持有这些工具的投资者,并强调了公司治理角色与不同投资者对金融稳定构成的威胁之间的权衡。本文论证了可保释债务持有人的构成是重要的,并从经验和理论上表明了向理想的持有人构成的过渡;尽管仍有相当大的改进空间。这项工作加深了对决议框架影响的理解,以及对手方对其可信度和未来应用的重要性。
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