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Corporate governance and company law

Responsible corporate governance is a precondition for a functioning coexistence between all players on the capital market. Balanced company law framework conditions form the basis for this. These provide the impact of companies as legal persons with a structure, regulate the rights and obligations of their shareholders as well as their management bodies and the interaction between them.

[Translate to English:] Dr. Cordula Heldt

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23.06.2021
Konferenz "Corporate Governance und Gesellschaftsrecht"

Der Arbeitskreis deutscher Aufsichtsrat (AdAR) und das Deutsche Aktieninstitut veranstalten gemeinsam die Konferenz zu Corporate Governance und Gesellschaftsrecht. In Sachen Corporate Governance wird...

Veranstaltung
20.04.2020
SE companies need more flexibility

Companies with their legal statute of a Societas Europaea (SE) are currently required to hold their general meetings within the first six months following the end of the previous financial year. However, the corona pandemic with social...

Positions papers
23.03.2020
General Meetings without compulsory attendance become possible (in German)

Deutsches Aktieninstitut welcomes the draft on the General Meeting without the shareholders’ personal attendance. Due to the lack of the necessary infrastructure, the possibility to ask questions during the online General Meeting must be...

Press releases
19.03.2020
Corona: Deutsches Aktieninstitut requests emergency parliamentary act for the benefit of listed companies (in German)

Governmental orders to ban public assemblies and to curtail public life in order to prevent the spread of the corona-virus largely affect the general assemblies of listed companies in the current season. In order to maintain the...

Positions papers
19.03.2020
At times of Corona: General meetings without compulsory attendance required (in German)

The bans and restrictions on events in response to the corona pandemic make it extremely difficult for companies to hold general meetings as face-to-face events. In a position paper published today, Deutsches Aktieninstitut therefore...

Press releases
12.03.2020
A shareholders' meeting is no soccer match (in German)

With a view to the beginning of the annual general meeting season, Deutsches Aktieninstitut is calling for individual case examinations to be permitted at annual general meetings. Companies that are legally obliged to hold shareholders'...

Press releases
02.03.2020
Stricter liability of the Management Board is to be rejected (In German)

The AFD parliamentary group wants to reform §148 AktG in order to make it easier to make the Executive Board of private companies easier liable. Deutsches Aktieninstitut sees no reason to tighten the current law. On the contrary, it...

Positions papers
31.01.2019
Revision of the German Corporate Governance Code (in German)

Deutsches Aktieninstitut has commented on the revision of the German Corporate Governance Code proposed by Regierungskommission Deutscher Corporate Governance Kodex. The determination of independence of Supervisory Board members by...

Positions papers
20.09.2018
Proposal for the fourth amendment of the German Reorganization of Companies Act (UmwG) (in German)

Deutsches Aktieninstitut welcomes the proposal to give companies with British legal forms the possibility to reorganize safely into a German legal form. Expanding the scope of application for cross-border mergers to allow foreign...

Positions papers
19.09.2018
Deutsches Aktieninstitut Warns of Imbalanced Legislation for EU Representative Action

Deutsches Aktieninstitut fears that the EU Commission’s legislative proposal on representative actions will – if adopted unchanged – create more problems than it will solve. The level of safeguards against abusive litigation remains far...

Positions papers
11.07.2018
Proposals for the Revision of the German Corporate Governance Codex (in German)

Deutsches Aktieninstitut takes a position to the indicated structural changes of the German Corporate Governance Codex and makes content-related suggestions for said revision of the Codex. From the perspective of Deutsches...

Positions papers
07.06.2018
German Federal Government's Draft of a Civil Proceedings Model Case Act (in German)

In its comments on the German Federal Government's draft of a civil proceedings model case act, Deutsches Aktieninstitut calls for the adoption of stricter rules assessing the admission-procedure of claims in order to prevent abusive...

Positions papers
29.05.2017
Whistleblower Protection does not Require EU Regulatory Action

In its short position on the occasion of the EU Commission’s public consultation on whistleblower protection, Deutsches Aktieninstituts supports the implementation of well-balanced protection mechanisms into the compliance management...

Positions papers
04.11.2016
No Audit Obligation of the Supervisory Board! - Transposition of European CSR-Directive to Be Finalized (In German)

Deutsches Aktieninstitut welcomes the objective of the government draft bill for a ‘one to one’-transposition of the European CSR Directive into German law. This intention should be pursued in an even more consistent manner. From the...

Positions papers
13.08.2015
Kurvenlage - Semi-Annual Report of Deutsches Aktieninstitut, 1st Term 2015 (in German)

Focus: 50 years German stock corporation law

Kurvenlage
30.07.2014
Kurvenlage - Semi-Annual Report of Deutsches Aktieninstitut, 1st Term 2014 (in German)

Focus: Europe has voted

Kurvenlage