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7 - Shareholder Engagement and Voting in Singapore

from Part I - Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2022

By
Wai Yee Wan
Edited by
Harpreet Kaur ,
Chao Xi ,
Christoph Van der Elst  and
Anne Lafarre
Harpreet Kaur
Affiliation:
National Law University Delhi
Chao Xi
Affiliation:
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Christoph Van der Elst
Affiliation:
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Anne Lafarre
Affiliation:
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
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Summary

This chapter focuses on shareholder voting and engagement of Singapore-incorporated companies and companies that are listed on Singapore Exchange. It explains the relationship between directors and shareholders, the formal and informal means of shareholder engagement, and shareholder rights relating to voting, asking questions and receiving information. Quite apart from the ‘law in the books’, the practice of shareholder engagement is illustrated with contentious and challenging examples, including related-party transactions, the delisting of proposals amounting to the expropriation of minority shareholders, dual-class structures and ‘say on pay’.

Keywords

Shareholder engagementshareholder votingcorporate governanceSingapore
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The Cambridge Handbook of Shareholder Engagement and Voting , pp. 126 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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