Este estudo busca aprofundar a análise dos mecanismos de proteção disponíveis no direito pátrio para a proteção dos interesses de acionistas não controladores e credores, inclusive aqueles titulares de debêntures, bônus de subscrição e partes beneficiárias, das sociedades envolvidas em uma operação de incorporação. Para tanto, são abordados os dispositivos legais, as interpretações jurisprudenciais e as posições doutrinárias no direito pátrio e no direito comparado. A primeira parte do trabalho apresenta o instituto da incorporação envolvendo sociedades anônimas e a sua importância no contexto econômico brasileiro. A segunda parte do trabalho expõe um panorama sobre os mecanismos utilizados para a proteção dos interesses dos acionistas não controladores, com relação a eventuais abusos por parte da administração ou da acionista controladora, nas operações de incorporação envolvendo sociedades anônimas. A terceira parte do trabalho aborda os mecanismos utilizados para a tutela dos credores nas operações de incorporação de sociedades anônimas, com relação aos arbítrios da administração e dos acionistas da companhia. / This paper aims to deepen the analysis of the mechanisms provided by Brazilian Law to protect non-controlling shareholders and creditors, including those who are holders of bonds, warrants and share certificates, of companies involved in a merger transaction. For this purpose, this work examines the legal provisions, case law understandings and doctrinal positions in Brazilian Law and Comparative Law. The first part of this paper presents the merger institute involving corporations and its importance in the current Brazilian economy. The second part of this paper provides an overview of the mechanisms used to protect the interests of non-controlling shareholders, with respect to possible abuses by the management or the controlling shareholder in mergers. The third part of this paper deals with the mechanisms used to protect creditors in the mergers of corporations against the whims of the companys management and shareholders.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:34:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jaime Magalhes Machado Junior.pdf: 793543 bytes, checksum: 17e95c8543fb9dc7e32d912a5e52c7c6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-04 / This essay is in connection with mergers of shares (article 252 of Law nº 6,404/76), whereby a company (merged company) mergers its shares into another company (merging company) and becomes the wholly-owned subsidiary of the second, as far as the capital market is concerned. It discusses the origins and concept of mergers of shares in light of the U.S. paradigm (freezeout and squeezeout mergers) and the Brazilian laws and regulations. It addresses the existence of conflicts between minority and controlling shareholders in the Brazilian capital market. It looks into the characteristics of Brazilian public companies (companhias de capital aberto) by presenting data that indicate the existence in most of those transactions of one single controlling shareholder. It shows the increase of guarantees and rights made available to minority shareholders after amendments to related laws, particularly after 2001, and to rules issuing from the Brazilian Stock and Exchange Commission (CVM), as a way to broaden the alternatives to raise and use resources out of the national savings in the capital market. It suggests that mergers of shares can be viewed within the context of the capital market but at the same time from the legal prospective of protecting minority shareholders. It puts forward modalities or theories according to which mergers of shares can be fraudulent under the law, to the extent that the controlling shareholders can take abusive actions (articles 116 and 117 of Law nº 6,404/76) to the prejudice of minority shareholders. It suggests, further, the use of simulation models (article 167 of the Brazilian Civil Code), of the "indirect deal" theory and case study of economic grounds as means or tools available to determine the existence of illegalities in a merger of shares. It lists cases submitted to CVM and Legal System for consideration. Finally, it suggests ways that the Brazilian government can control and the consequences of administrative (by CVM) and court rulings in litigations between minority and controlling shareholders. / Este trabalho trata da operação de incorporação de ações (art. 252 da Lei nº 6.404/76), pela qual uma companhia (incorporadora) incorpora a totalidade das ações de outra (incorporada), que passa a ser sua subsidiária integral, no contexto do mercado de capitais. Apresenta as origens e o conceito da incorporação de ações, segundo o paradigma norte-americano (freezeout e squeezeout mergers) e a legislação brasileira. Discorre sobre a existência de conflitos entre os acionistas minoritários e os acionistas controladores no mercado de capitais brasileiro. Analisa as características das companhias de capital aberto brasileiras, apresentando dados que demonstram a existência, na maioria dessas, de um único controlador. Demonstra a ampliação das garantias e direitos dos acionistas minoritários nas reformas legislativas, especialmente após 2001, e na regulamentação pela Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM), como forma de ampliar a captação e o direcionamento de recursos da poupança popular para o mercado de capitais. Sugere que a incorporação de ações possa ser analisada no contexto do mercado de capitais e segundo as perspectivas legais de proteção do acionista minoritário. Apresenta modalidades ou hipóteses em que a incorporação de ações pode resultar em fraudes à lei, pela prática de atos abusivos pelos acionistas controladores (artigos 116 e 117 da Lei nº 6.404/76), em prejuízo dos acionistas minoritários. Sugere, ainda, a utilização da simulação (art. 167 do Código Civil brasileiro), da teoria do negócio indireto e da verificação casuística dos fundamentos econômicos, como meios ou instrumentos disponíveis para a constatação de ilegalidades na incorporação de ações. Colaciona casos práticos submetidos à análise da CVM e do Poder Judiciário. Por fim, apresenta as formas de controle do Estado brasileiro e as conseqüências das decisões administrativas (da CVM) e judiciais em litígios entre acionistas minoritários e controladores.

Cette thèse propose de découvrir les apports du droit des sociétés à la théorie générale de l'obligation de faire et de déterminer le rôle qu'elles occupent dans ce domaine du droit. A cette fin, des analyses sont consacrées à l'identification des obligations juridiques de faire parmi les différents types de contraintes pesant sur l'activité des personnes. L'étude présente ensuite une typologie des principales obligations des dirigeants et des associés. Après la détermination de l'objet des obligations de faire, il est entrepris un examen des façons d'accomplir les obligations de faire. A cet égard, les délégations constituent un mode d'exécution naturel, car elles permettent de « faire faire» au sein des entreprises. Par ailleurs, le contrôle de la manière d'exécuter l'obligation de faire constitue une étape décisive en vue de libérer le débiteur. Pour apprécier les façons de faire, les standards et le droit souple jouent un rôle important pour séparer les bonnes pratiques des mauvais procédés d'exécution. Par la suite, les réponses du droit à l'inexécution des obligations de faire sont examinées. Il s'agit alors d'analyser les difficultés résultant des obligations de faire à l'égard des responsabilités civile et pénale. Pour pallier ces difficultés, le législateur a cherché à renouveler les sanctions en recourant à la déchéance, aux injonctions de faire, au mandat ad hoc ou la stigmatisation publique. Les mérites de ces nouvelles façons de faire sont appréciés. Enfin, cette thèse défend l'idée que le régime de l'exécution forcée doit être adapté aux sociétés, car les personnes morales n'agissent pas comme les personnes physiques. / Obligation to do refers to the Roman classification of obligations: dare, facere, nonfacere, and praestare. The debtor of an obligation to do has to perform a task of any kind such as intellectual and legal services or labour works. This thesis intends to develop a legal analysis of directors' and shareholders' duties in corporate law with a specific interest for obligations to do. For instance, it focuses on duty of care, internai control, compliance or cooperation with legal auditors. Regarding shareholders' obligations, it highlights the duties of controlling shareholders - whether contractual or legal - collaterals, sweat equities, and other various cornmitments subscribed as they purchase or sale shares. This thesis also deals with how corporations, directors, and shareholders perform their obligations. In this regard, it shows that directors divide up tasks through delegations for their corporation to comply with its liabilities as well as performing their own duties. Moreover, this study reviews guidance provided by soft law and how can judges use it - through standards - to decide whether an obligation has been properly completed or not. Furthermore, it investigates the efficiency of remedies in case of the debtor's non-performance. Along with a critical examination of civil and criminal liability, this thesis assesses new forms of remedies and their merits such as injunction to do, forfeiture, and shaming.

L’usufruit est essentiellement envisagé comme un droit réel portant sur un bien immobilier.Jadis, les immeubles constituaient l’élément le plus important du patrimoine des particuliers. Depuis un siècle, il y a une transformation de la nature des patrimoines caractérisé par le développement des fortunes mobilières à côté de celle immobilières.L'objet de l'usufruit des droits sociaux se trouve au confluent de deux disciplines totalement étrangères l’une à l’autre : le droit des biens et le droit des sociétés.Le droit des biens tend à privilégier l’approche réelle de la matière, ce qui peut conduire à négliger la spécificité de l’objet de l’usufruit. Alors que le droit des sociétés met l’accent sur les mécanismes internes de la société et du droit d’associé, ce qui peut perdre de vue que ce droit est envisagé comme un bien.L’ouvrage explore les différents mécanismes d’utilisation de ce procédé d’ingénierie patrimoniale aussi bien en matière d’optimisation qu’en matière de transmission fiscales. Il envisage aussi d’expliciter les différents aspects de conciliation que requiert l’application de cet outil juridique et financier au sein de la société.Cette thèse encouragera le législateur libanais à introduire et adopter la notion de l’usufruit des droits sociaux au Liban et permettra de mettre en place une étude mise à jour et plus riche en la matière. / Usufruct is a right in rem allowing to use and to enjoy the property of another. Whilst previously, real estates and immovable properties were one’s most valuable assets, with time we have witnessed a shift in the market environment and the development of wealth in movables.In light of the foregoing, usufruct which was initially applicable in real estate, has been applied in other types of property such as corporate shares and stocks. Being relatively a recent development, there is an absence in the French system of adequately applicable legal texts to the usufruct of shares and stocks and accordingly it is subject to both the property law and company law. This gives rise to a number of difficulties because whereas the property law focuses on the various forms of ownership and the legal relationship with the rem, and emphasizes on proprietorship rights; the company law studies the interaction of the shareholders and other stakeholders with the company specifying their rights and duties and thus may lose sight that the usufruct is a property right. With this research I intend to explore the different mechanisms and contexts in which usufruct is used as a legal & financial tool for tax optimization and cost cutting mostly elucidated during inheritance. On the other hand, I will elaborate the way of utilizing it by a shareholder within the company.Finally, I hope that my thesis will contribute to encourage the Lebanese legislator in introducing this notion into Lebanon by developing the relevant laws and will provide an updated and thorough study of shares and stocks usufruct.

Termination of membership in limited liability company Abstract The thesis deals with meanings of termination of membership in limited liability company, namely by (i) transfer of business interest, (ii), stepping out of the company, (iii) agreement on termination of shareholder's participation in a company, (iv) exclusion of a shareholder, (v) cancellation of shareholder's participation by court, (vi) termination of shareholder's participation due to insolvency proceedings against the shareholder, and (vii) termination of shareholder's participation due to execution towards the shareholder's interest. The thesis further deals with termination of shareholder's participation due to death of the shareholder who is a natural person or winding-up of the shareholder which is a legal entity. After a short foreword follow chapters concerning general issues about the limited liability company as a type of a legal corporation, the rights and obligations of shareholders and the creation and termination of participation in a limited liability company. Chapters dealing with various meanings of termination of shareholder's participation in a limited liability company and a brief conclusion follow. The aim of this thesis is to analyze and clarify some interpretative and application difficulties arising in connection with...

La Tunisie n’a pas échappé au mouvement universel de privatisation. Sous l’effet conjugué du poids de ses entreprises publiques, et de la dette extérieure et de la conditionnalité des bailleurs de fonds internationaux (Banque Mondiale et FMI), la Tunisie s’est engagée dans un vaste programme de privatisation. Cet ouvrage cerne les objectifs, les modalités et les enjeux qui accompagnent le processus de privatisation tunisien, en le comparant à la mise en œuvre du programme français de privatisation. Dans une seconde partie, l’étude présente les alternatives possibles aux privatisations, particulièrement les partenariats public-privé, largement diffusés de nos jours. / Tunisia has not escaped the global privatization movement. Taking into account the weight of its public companies and foreign debt and also the conditionality of international donors (World Bank and IMF), Tunisia has embarked on a vast program of privatization. This thesis work purpose is to identify the objectives, terms and stakes that conduct the Tunisian privatization process, and then comparing it to the implementation of the French privatization program. In the second part, the study describes the possible alternatives to privatization, particularly the public-private partnerships that are widely available today.

Companies are expected to be good corporate citizens and fulfil expectations of both shareholders and stakeholders. Depending on their corporate objectives, companies undertake different CSR activities using their preferred financial resources. The relationship between these two notions is interesting to investigate in the Nordic context since companies in this geographical area are the global leaders in sustainability. We formulate the following research question as: What is the relationship between financial slack and the CSR performance in Nordic countries? As such, the purpose of this thesis is to investigate the underpinnings of whether companies choose to allocate their financial slack resources towards improving performance of CSR, or so called value creation. Doing so, we investigate the relationship between financial slack resources and CSR score. In adopting a regulatory position on the development of society, we conduct our research in accordance with the functionalist research paradigm, namely through commitment to the objectivist ontic and positivist epistemic research philosophies. We answer the research question using the deductive approach. Our research design is framed with an explanatory purpose relying on archival strategy to perform a quantitative study. The theoretical underpinnings for analysis comes in the form of legitimacy theory, the institutional differences hypothesis, Resource-based theory, slack resources theory, stakeholder and shareholder theory. We use multiple linear regressions to analyse cross-sectional data for the period between 2005 and 2015 collected from Thomson Reuters DataStream. Our result indicates that the relationship between financial slack and CSR performance in the following year is mixed with both positive and negative relationships being present. Our most important finding is a pattern indicating that during the year 2008 the relationship changed from being positive to negative. This implies that the more funds a company has at its discretion, the less likely it is for them to invest it in developing their CSR performance the following year. This could have severe negative implications on shareholders, stakeholders and society.

Magister Legum - LLM / The main objective of this study is to review the legal and regulatory framework of corporate governance in Tanzania with the focus on corporate governance laws and regulations. The study is intended to discuss the main legal and regulatory framework in Tanzania which plays a part in the corporate governance. The Companies Act No. 12 of 2002 will be reviewed in order to establish which corporate governance principles are provided and to what extent they are effective. The capital markets and securities laws, guidelines on corporate governance in Tanzania with a focus on the listing requirements and other regulations applied at the DSE will also be reviewed in order to establish their effectiveness in attracting investors to the market. Given the comparative value of South Africa and Kenya in SADC and EAC respectively, this work will also discuss the legal and regulatory framework of corporate governance in Kenya and South Africa and compare with those in Tanzania in areas such as shareholders rights; stakeholder’s right; board control and effectiveness and the effectiveness of compliance. Such comparative analysis is done in order to single out areas of focus in legal and regulatory framework in corporate governance law such as companies’ law and stock market and security laws in Tanzania.

La première rédaction enquête sur la politique de dividende récemment établie sur le marché boursier vietnamien et expérimente les périodes condensées de forte croissance et chute brutale avec une approche en deux étapes. Les résultats de la recherche montrent : (1) Les investisseurs sont d’avantage expropriés dans les entreprises dont la part de détention d’actions des initiés est plus élevée ; (2) Les investisseurs tendent à percevoir le versement de plus faibles dividendes comme un signal relatif à la rentabilité espérée dès lors que l’asymétrie d’information est réduite ; (3) Les investisseurs dans les entreprises contrôlées par l’Etat sont plus enclins à recevoir des dividendes que celles qui ne le sont pas. La seconde rédaction pose que le marché vietnamien des actions est un laboratoire prometteur pour enquêter sur le comportement des cours de marché le jour du Exdividende. Les résultats des recherches suggèrent que les investisseurs du marché boursiervietnamien sont indifférents à l’écart dans l’application de taxe sur les revenus des dividendes. Ils cherchent à capter des dividendes s’ils trouvent des opportunités de profit. Par conséquent, les investisseurs achètent des actions le jour du Cum-dividende et les vendent le Ex-dividende pour exploiter les opportunités de profit générées par le paiement de dividendes. La dernière rédaction examine les effets des droits des actionnaires et des créanciers sur la politique de dividende lorsqueles frais de représentation des actionnaires et des créances tendent à augmenter. Ses découvertes indiquent que les actionnaires et les créanciers sont plus souvent expropriés et l’augmentation des expropriations des créanciers (actionnaires) est plus élevée si les actionnaires (créanciers) sont fortement protégées par la réglementation. / The first essay investigates dividend policy in Vietnamese stock market which is newly established and experiences short booming and crashing periods with a two-step approach. The research findings show: (1) investors are expropriated more in firms with higher insider ownership; (2) Investors tend to receive smaller dividends paid as a signal of expected profitability when information asymmetry is lower; (3) investors in state-controlled firms are more likely to receive dividends than those in non-state-controlled firms. The second essay posits that Vietnamese stock market is a promising laboratory to investigate stock price behavior on ex-dividend day. The research results imply that investors in Vietnamese stock market is indifferent to the difference in tax treatment of capital gains to dividends, they try to capture dividends if they find profit opportunities. Therefore, investors buy stocks on the cum-dividend day and sell them on the exdividend to exploit profit opportunities created by dividend payment. The third essay examines the effects of shareholder rights and creditor rights on dividend policy when agency costs of shareholders and creditors tend to increase. Its findings indicate that are more expropriated and theincrease in the expropriation of creditors (shareholders) is higher if shareholders (creditors) are protected strongly by law.

The capital maintenance rules stem from the English company law and were primarily aimed at protecting the rights of a company’s creditors. Before the introduction of the Companies Amendment Act 37 of 1998, a company was prohibited from purchasing its own shares. After this legislation was passed, a company was able to do so, provided that it satisfied the solvency and liquidity test and also complied with the new statutory provisions set out by sections 85 to 89 of the Companies Act 61 of 1973. Section 48 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 now regulates the acquisition by a company of its own shares, as well as the acquisition of shares in its holding company by a subsidiary company. The above actions also fall under the ambit of a “distribution” as defined in the Act and therefore need to satisfy the requirements of section 46 of the Act as well. Unlike its predecessor, the provisions in the new Act are very broad and devoid of guidelines. The emphasis is placed on companies satisfying the principles of solvency and liquidity. Non-adherence to these provisions gives rise to the personal liability of the company’s directors. The provisions of section 48 do not apply where a dissenting shareholder exercises his appraisal rights in terms of section 164 of the new Act, or where a company redeems redeemable securities. These exceptions do, however, still amount to “distributions” and will accordingly need to satisfy the requirements contained in section 46 of the Act. Redeemable securities were initially not exempted from the provisions of section 48. This would potentially have given rise to a situation where a company could approach a court in terms of section 48(6) to reverse a redemption of its securities. It would have had dire consequences for financing by way of redeemable securities. In terms of the Companies Amendment Act 3 of 2011 redeemable securities are now specifically exempted from the provisions of section 48. In terms of the new Act a subsidiary company is allowed to purchase shares in its holding company to a maximum of 10% in the aggregate of the issued shares of any share class, provided that no voting rights attached to such shares may be exercised. The new Act fails to properly address some of the issues regarding the “round-tripping” of dividends and the declaration of a dividend in specie that were already identified as far back as 2001. Where the consideration for a repurchase constitutes a “dividend” as defined in the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962, the company will be liable to pay secondary tax on companies in respect thereof. If a distribution does not constitute a dividend, capital gains tax is payable with regard to it. Share repurchases are allowed in terms of Canadian corporate law after the legislative reform which occurred in that country during the 1970’s. The Canadian Business Corporations Act contains provisions that bear a striking resemblance to the provisions of the new Act adopted in South Africa. Whilst the basis and rationale behind the new corporate legislation cannot be faulted, a host of issues and concerns still remain. The unfortunate consequence is that the new Act lacks transparency and is fraught with clumsy errors. Copyright / Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Mercantile Law / unrestricted