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The Deconstruction of Equity: Activist Shareholders, Decoupled Risk, and Corporate Governance
New investment techniques and new types of shareholder activists are shaking up the traditional ways of equity investment that inform current corporate law and governance. This book evaluates different risk-decoupling strategies and makes the case for regulatory intervention, developing a comprehensive proposal to address the regulatory problem.
Author(s) | By Wolf-Georg Ringe (Professor of International Commercial Law, Professor of International Commercial Law, Copenhagen Business School & University of Oxford). |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 288 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 21 Apr 2016 |
Availability | Out of stock |
New investment techniques and new types of shareholder activists are shaking up the traditional ways of equity investment that inform current corporate law and governance. This book evaluates different risk-decoupling strategies and makes the case for regulatory intervention, developing a comprehensive proposal to address the regulatory problem.
1: Introduction 2: Shareholders in Corporate Governance 3: Risk-Decoupling Strategies 4: The Failure of Traditional Categories of Law 5: Problem Perspectives 6: Solutions 7: The Federal Dimension 8: Conclusion
Wolf-Georg Ringe is Professor of Law and holds a chair of International Commercial Law at Copenhagen Business School; he also teaches at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. He has held visiting positions at various institutions around the world, mos