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Barriers to Cross-Border Voting
Shareholder voting is one of the pillars of effective corporate governance. It is the single most important legal mechanism for shareholder control over investee companies, their boards and management. The voting rights attached to shares give shareholders influence over matters that can affect company performance, stock price, and shareholder value.
This study assesses the voting process in 18 European markets in order to determine the average amount of time available to institutional investors to make informed voting decisions.
Key issues covered:
>> Major impediments to the voting process in Europe;
>> Contrasting statutory requirements and best practice provisions in each European market with the practices of issuers incorporated in that market;
>> Identifying the problems associated with the use of the chain of intermediaries as the predominant model for cross-border voting in Europe;
>> Comparing voting deadlines set by issuers/tabulators in each European market with vote cut-off dates set by intermediaries in the chain; and
>> Identifying the underlying causes of existing vote cut-off dates for institutional investors, and establishing what factors influence the setting of an ultimate cut-off date.
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