cross-border voting; eu Archives

Empty Voting: ESMA call for evidence finds …

….no evidence.

Last year, ESMA conducted a consultation on the topic of empty voting, designed to find out the nature and extent of the decoupling of voting rights from economic ownership. Last week, they published the responses received, and concluded …

Deutsche Bank – why you actually might not want to vote at all

The upcoming AGM of Deutsche Bank AG is looming large in many shareholders minds now. With the long running succession planning debate at the company leading some proxy advisors to publicly recommend opposition to ratification of the supervisory board acts, …

Herbie votes again?

Procedures for voting at the upcoming AGM of Volkswagen AG have raised a few eyebrows at Manifest today (Tuesday 12th April).

Unashamedly putting the Shareholders’ Rights Directive (SRD) record back on the record player, and turning the volume up to …

EU-wide obligations for custodians?

Manifest responds to the European Commission consultation on potential legislation covering the processing of rights flowing from securities by “securities accounts providers” (largely, custodians).

Ever prior to the Shareholder’s Rights Directive publication 2007, Manifest has highlighted that the role of …