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Pathway To Minority Shareholder Protection: Derivative Actions In The People's Republic Of China, Donald C. Clarke
Pathway To Minority Shareholder Protection: Derivative Actions In The People's Republic Of China, Donald C. Clarke
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Using a dataset of Chinese judicial opinions arising in over fifty cases, this paper analyses the development and current implementation of shareholder derivative actions in the courts of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”), both before and after the derivative lawsuit was explicitly authorized in the PRC’s 2006 Company Law effective January 1, 2006. In addition, we describe the very unique ecology of enterprise organization and corporate governance in modern China, and critique the formal design of the derivative action and offer reform suggestions.
We find the design of the Chinese derivative lawsuit to be, in some respects, innovative and …