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This Research Handbook is a one-stop resource on global capital
markets and the laws that regulate them. Focussing primarily on
‘mainstream’ capital markets, and framing them as an ecosystem
in which the market players and regulators must co-exist, the
Handbook paints a canvas on which key cross-cutting themes are
depicted, dissected and discussed. Featuring contributions from
leading global experts, the Research Handbook delves into a range
of issues including investment products such as equity finance;
sustainable finance; fintech; impact investing; private equity. It
also provides analysis on institutional and procedural issues such
as large and small companies' capital formation, the roles of
institutional shareholders and information providers, and the
practices and regulation of financial trading markets.
International in scope, this Research Handbook will be of great
value to scholars and practitioners in the field of financial law.
It will also be a go-to source of information for policy makers in
the financial markets sphere.
Shareholder inspection rights form an important tool for
shareholder protection. They offer shareholders seeking information
private access to specific books and records of the company that
are otherwise not publicly available. While there has been a
discourse on the topic in some jurisdictions such as Delaware
(USA), it has not received scholarly treatment at an international
level. This Research Handbook seeks to alter that, and signifies
the first endeavor to engage in a comprehensive and comparative
analysis of shareholder inspection rights across 19 different
jurisdictions representing five continents. Themes emerging from
the study include the historical evolution of inspection rights,
the statutory design of the inspection regime, how inspection
rights interact with disclosure norms under securities regulation,
and the manner in which inspection rights are actually utilized by
shareholders. While there is some commonality among jurisdictions,
the larger story is one of divergence, which is understandable
since local needs tend to drive the design and operation of the
regime. The Research Handbook on Shareholder Inspection Rights is
invaluable to academics, scholars, and students working the area of
corporate law and governance, legal practitioners working in
corporate law and, in particular, shareholder litigation and
regulators and government bodies overseeing the corporate sector,
including corporate and securities regulators.
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