6th Annual Corporate Governance Conference
5 Dec - 6 Dec 2019
Session information
Governance issues with large investors in a public company
Friday 6 December (0900 - 1030)
Committee(s)
Capital Markets Forum
(Lead)
Corporate and M&A Law Committee
(Lead)
Description
This panel will discuss specific requirements and challenges relating to corporate governance of listed companies that have a large shareholder. Topics will include: • dialogue and information sharing with the large shareholder in the face of equal treatment requirements under corporate and securities laws • dealing with influence by the large shareholder on business strategy, board and senior management appointments and important transactions • related party transactions, in particular under the amended Shareholder Rights Directive • competing or conflicting activities by the large shareholder in other companies • insider trading issues
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Simon Link | Hengeler Mueller, Munich, Germany; Corporate Governance Monitor, Capital Markets Forum |
| Henrik Rossing Lonberg | Plesner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Speakers
| Ilkin Karakaya | Knorr-Bremse, Munich, Germany |
| Christian Kledal | Copenhagen Airports, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Dagmar Mundani | Siemens Healthineers AG, Erlangen, Germany |
| Andrew Nussbaum | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, New York, USA |
| Professor Holger Spamann | Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |