Bobby V. Reddy (University of Cambridge)

Founders without Limits

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Straddling the disciplines of company law, economics, business and finance, this book explores dual-class stock, one of the hottest corporate governance topics, in the context of founders and the UK tech-scene, as well as comprehensively covers the subject's international breadth as a guide for lecturers, academics, practitioners and policymakers.

Produktdetails

• International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9781108970624
• ISBN-10: 1108970621
• Artikelnr.: 70363687

Autorenporträt

Bobby Reddy teaches Company Law and Corporate Governance at the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance and a Fellow of Churchill College. He is a former corporate partner at the global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP and was a director and trustee of the charitable corporate governance think-tank Tomorrow's Company.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 1. The cult of dual-class stock in the era of big tech
2. A tale of two cities and beyond
3. First among equals? Other methods of creating a divergence between voting and cash-flow rights
4. Shareholder democracy, and corporate purpose
5. From controlling shareholders to dual-class stock
6. Theoretical benefits and detriments of dual-class stock
7. The empirical evidence on dual-class stock
8. The existing constraints
9. A balanced protection package for inferior-voting shareholders
Epilogue
Appendix: The proposed enhanced inferior-voting shareholder protection package for the UK's premium-tier with a comparison to other major dual-class stock exchanges
Index.