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Research handbook on shareholder inspection rights, a comparative perspective, edited by Randall S. Thomas, Paolo Giudici and Umakanth Varottil

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Research handbook on shareholder inspection rights

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edited by Randall S. Thomas, Paolo Giudici and Umakanth Varottil

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a comparative perspective

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Contents: 1. Introduction to the research handbook on shareholder inspection rights / Randall S. Thomas, Paolo Giudici and Umakanth Varottil -- Part I. The United Kingdom -- 2. United Kingdom historical viewpoint / Jonathan Hardman -- 3. Shareholder inspection rights in the uk: Hotchpotch provision and information deficits / Brenda Hannigan -- Part II. Continental Europe -- 4. Shareholder inspection rights in Belgium: Unpopular or unnecessary? / Hans De Wulf -- 5. Shareholders' inspection and investigation rights in France / Pierre-Henri Conac -- 6. Information rights of shareholders in German company law / Christoph Teichmann -- 7. Inspection rights in Italy / Paolo Giudici -- 8. Inspection rights in Spain / Maria Gutierrez Urtiaga and Maribel Saez Lacave -- 9. Shareholder inspection rights in Sweden and the nordic countries / Jan Andersson -- 10. Right of information and right of inspection in the Netherlands / Christoph Van der Elst -- Part III. The americas -- 11. The paradox of delaware's "tools at hand" doctrine: An empirical investigation / James D. Cox, Kenneth J. Martin, and Randall S. Thomas -- 12. Addendum: Recent developments in the "tools at hand" doctrine / James D. Cox and Randall S. Thomas -- 13. Alternative entity inspection rights / Peter Molk -- 14. Shareholder investigation rights in Canada: A balancing of competing interests / Poonam Puri -- 15. Shareholders' inspection rights in colombia / Francisco Reyes Villamizar -- 16. Inspection rights and the brazilian law of corporations / Marcelo Godke Veiga and Marcelo Vieira von Adamek -- Part IV. Asia and australia -- 17. Shareholder inspection rights in australia: Then and now / Tim Bowley and Jennifer G. Hill -- 18. Shareholder inspection rights in China: Law and practice / Robin Hui Huang -- 19. Over-disclosure in hong kong? The role of shareholder inspection rights in a competitive ifc / David C. Donald -- 20. Shareholder inspection rights in India: Restricted scope and diminished effect / Umakanth Varottil and Neha Joshi -- 21. Shareholder inspection rights in Japan: A segmented multiple-track approach / Gen Goto -- 22. Shareholder inspection rights in korea: Law and practice from a comparative perspective / Kon Sik Kim -- 23. Limited shareholder inspection rights in singapore: Worrying legal gap or unnecessary for rankings? / Dan W. Puchniak and Samantha S. Tang -- Index