EW Barker Centre for Law & Business

Programme

09.30 - 10.00	Registration & Coffee
10.00 - 10.30	Welcome Professor Simon Chesterman Dean, Faculty of Law National University of Singapore Paul F. Winkelmann Partner PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hong Kong Opening remarks Bernhard N. Faustenhammer Chargé d'Affaires a.i. Delegation of the European Union to Singapore Introduction to the Conference David Devlin Chairman European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Session 1 - Corporate Governance of State-owned Enterprises A significant number of firms are directly or indirectly state-owned. This session will provide an overview of recent regulatory developments and cover stewardship, disclosure and information, board responsibility and shareholder rights issues.
10.30 - 11.45	Moderator David Devlin Chairman European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Briefings The OECD Guidelines: Overview and 2014 Revision Fianna Jurdant Senior Policy Manager OECD Corporate Affairs Division [View Presentation Slides] Putting the OECD Guidelines in Context: State-Owned Enterprises in China Li Guo Professor Peking University Law School [View Presentation Slides] State-Owned Enterprises in India Umakanth Varottil Assistant Professor NUS Law School [View Presentation Slides] State-Owned Enterprises in Singapore Mak Yuen Teen Associate Professor NUS Business School [View Presentation Slides]
11.45 - 12.15	Panel discussion on Trends in the Governance of State-owned Enterprises Ong Boon Hwee CEO Stewardship Asia Centre Wang Jiangyu Deputy Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies NUS Law
12.15 - 12.30	Q&A
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
Session 2 - Regulating Controlling Shareholders Controlling shareholders play a major role in common law as well as in civil law jurisdictions
13.30 - 15.00	Moderator Gerard Hertig Professor of Law, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Vice Chairman, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and ECGI Research member Briefings The Politics of Regulating Controlling Shareholders Walter Woon NUS Law Professor & Former Attorney General, Singapore Controlling Shareholders in Germany Wolf-Georg Ringe Professor of International Commercial Law Copenhagen Business School [View Presentation Slides] Regulation of Controlling Shareholders in Japan Hideki Kanda Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics University of Tokyo and ECGI Research member [View Presentation Slides] Controlling the Controlling Shareholders: The Case of Singapore Lan Luh Luh Associate Professor NUS Business & Law Schools [View Presentation Slides] Controlling Shareholders in South Korea Kon Sik Kim Professor, Commercial Law SNU School of Law [View Presentation Slides]
15.00 - 15.30	Coffee break
15.30 - 16.30	Panel discussion on Controlling Shareholders' Activism Dan W. Puchniak Associate Professor NUS Law School Adrian Chan First Vice-Chairman Singapore Institute of Directors Dr Harald Baum Senior Research Fellow Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
16.30 - 17.00	Q&A
17.00 - 17.15	Conclusions Marco Becht Professor of Finance and Economics Université Libre de Bruxelles ECGI Executive Director and Research member