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Shareholder Protection Reconsidered: Derivative Action in the UK, Germany and Greece book cover

1st Edition

Shareholder Protection Reconsidered Derivative Action in the UK, Germany and Greece

By Georgios Zouridakis Copyright 2020
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge
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This book examines the role and potential of derivative actions in shareholder protection in public limited companies. Derivative actions have been a focal point of legislators’ agendas on shareholder protection, in the past few decades, throughout Europe and beyond. Nevertheless, there remain jurisdictions, such as Greece, which are still devoid of this remedy. Against this backdrop, this book... Read more

Contents

PART 1: Derivative actions in abstracto: the theoretical framework of this study

CHAPTER 1. Introduction

CHAPTER 2. The importance of an effective shareholder remedy for wrongs against the company

PART 2: Derivative actions de lege lata: a comparative and functional analysis

CHAPTER 3: Comparison of Functionally Equivalent Rules on Shareholders’ enforcement of corporate claims

CHAPTER 4: The Greek framework for shareholder protection in a comparative context and the (in)existence of alternatives to derivative actions

PART 3. Derivative actions de lege ferenda: suggestions based on comparative considerations

CHAPTER 5: Proposals for a functioning and truly protective derivative action

CHAPTER 6. Conclusion

BIBLIOGRAPHY

TABLE OF CASES

ANNEXES

Biography

Georgios Zouridakis, PhD (Essex), is a qualified attorney at law and member of the Athens Bar Association, Greece, Lecturer at the University of Essex School of Law, UK and research fellow at the Athens Institute for Education and Research, Greece.

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