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“For a country that eschewed the free market for so long, the Russians are catching up fast. A quarter of the Pounds 17.8 billion raised on the LSE this year has been for Russian companies. If the IPO trend continues as it has so far, the Russians will account for Pounds 8 billion of the approximate Pounds 30 billion raised this year. If the Kazakhs are added, it could be Pounds 11 billion.
[…]”James Harding, The Times, 26 August 2006, p.53.
A one-day symposium will be held at the University of Sheffield Management School on Friday 22 June 2007 on the important topic of contractual corporate governance. Contractual corporate governance refers to the ways and means by which individual companies can deviate from their national corporate governance standards by increasing (or reducing) the level of protection they offer to their shareholders and other stakeholders. Although this topic has not yet been widely addressed in the academic literature, it is rapidly gaining importance, especially in the light of the increasing globalization of capital and product markets. It also raises important questions for policy makers, stock exchange officials, and other finance practitioners.
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