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The Deconstruction of Equity: Activist Shareholders, Decoupled Risk, and Corporate Governance
Wolf-Georg Ringe
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Description for The Deconstruction of Equity: Activist Shareholders, Decoupled Risk, and Corporate Governance
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: KFFM; LNPD. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
New investment techniques and new types of shareholder activists are shaking up the traditional ways of equity investment that informs much of our present-day corporate law and governance. Savvy investors such as hedge funds are using financial derivatives, securities lending transactions, and related concepts to decouple the financial risk from shares. This leads to a distortion of incentives and has potentially severe consequences for the functioning of corporate governance and of capital markets overall. Taking stock of the different decoupling strategies that have become known over the past several years, this book then provides an evaluation of each from ... Read more
New investment techniques and new types of shareholder activists are shaking up the traditional ways of equity investment that informs much of our present-day corporate law and governance. Savvy investors such as hedge funds are using financial derivatives, securities lending transactions, and related concepts to decouple the financial risk from shares. This leads to a distortion of incentives and has potentially severe consequences for the functioning of corporate governance and of capital markets overall. Taking stock of the different decoupling strategies that have become known over the past several years, this book then provides an evaluation of each from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198723035
SKU
V9780198723035
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Ref
99-26
About Wolf-Georg Ringe
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, most recently a visiting professorship at Columbia Law School, New York (spring 2014). Professor Ringe specializes in European and transatlantic ... Read more
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