Shareholder Activism in the EU: An Analysis of the Role for Institutional Investors in the Activist Arena and of the Case for a Shareholder Rights Reform Ghent University
The research project aims at providing a legal and empirical analysis of the role of institutional investors in tabling of and voting on shareholder proposals in European companies. In particular, it aims to establish whether the Gilson-Gordon model also functions in the EU, and wants to provide a critical perspective on whether the proposed EU Directive on Shareholder Rights is the optimal regulatory approach for an effective legal framework ...