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Protecting Minority Shareholders In Civil And Common Law Systems: Canadian, Ukrainian And German Examples, Iushchenko Igor Sergiiovych
Protecting Minority Shareholders In Civil And Common Law Systems: Canadian, Ukrainian And German Examples, Iushchenko Igor Sergiiovych
LLM Theses
This thesis analyses minority shareholder protection in common law and civil law systems. Principally, this is done by examining closely-held corporations created under Canadian, Ukrainian and German laws. It examines minority shareholder protection by critically analyzing voting and related rights, the right to information; withdrawal from the company, expulsion right, the dissolution of a company, derivative action and direct action. The thesis also summarizes problems in the civil law system that cannot be solved in favor of minority shareholders. In addition to the above-mentioned, it provides possible solutions to the problems of minority shareholder protection in the civil law system, …