The derivative action in Asia a comparative and functional approach

This in-depth comparative examination of the derivative action in Asia provides a framework for analysing its function, history and practical application and examines in detail how derivative actions law works in practice in seven important Asian jurisdictions (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea,...

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Other Authors: Puchniak, Dan W. (Editor), Baum, Harald (Editor), Ewing-Chow, Michael (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
Series:International corporate law and financial market regulation
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The derivative action : an economic, historic and practice-oriented approach / Harald Baum and Dan W. Puchniak
  • The complexity of derivative action in Asia : an inconvenient truth / Dan W. Puchniak
  • Land of the rising derivative action : revisiting irrationality to understand Japan's unreluctant shareholder litigant / Masafumi Nakahigashi and Dan W. Puchniak
  • Invigorating shareholder derivative actions in South Korea / Hyeok-Joon Rho and Kon-Sik Kim
  • Derivative actions in Taiwan : legal and cultural hurdles with a glimmer of hope for the future / Wang Ruu Tseng and Wallace Wen Yeu Wang
  • Pathway to minority shareholder protection : derivative action in the People's Republic of China / Donald C. Clarke and Nicholas C. Howson
  • A parallel path to shareholder remedies : Hong Kong's derivative actions / Paul von Nessen, S.H. Goo and Chee Keong Low
  • Derivative actions in Singapore : mundanely non-Asian, intriguingly non-American and at the forefront of the commonwealth / Meng Seng Wee and Dan W. Puchniak
  • The rarity of derivative actions in India : reasons and consequences / Vikramaditya Khanna and Umakanth Varottil
  • The derivative action in Asia : some concluding observations / Dan W. Puchniak and Harald Baum