Anonymity of shareholders and the requierements for their identification This thesis concentrates on the anonymity of shareholders which is currently one of the most discussed aspects of the corporate law. The topicality of this issue was one of the reasons for the selection of this topic. Czech legislation has been criticized both by NGOs and a large part of Czech population for the excessive simplicity of the use of anonymous shares and for owners identification impossibility.. The paper is focused on ways of both hiding the beneficial owner of shares and also shareholders identification. This work is written during the ongoing debate on the abolition of bearer shares, which is considered to be an instrument for corruption or legalization of proceeds from criminal activities, so-called money laundering. Debates on the abolition (or at least reducing) of the shareholders anonymity are being held not only in the Czech Republic. Many countries have already implemented certain instruments in this area. Bearer shares have been canceled without compensations in some countries, , other countries allowed their demeterialized or immobilized form. The aim of this work is to analyze not only valid and effective legislation, but also the legislation enacted in connection with the recodification of private...
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:329807 |
Date | January 2012 |
Creators | Paulus, David |
Contributors | Černá, Stanislava, Patěk, Daniel |
Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
Language | Czech |
Detected Language | English |
Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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