[SMULA] Minority Shareholders’ Remedies in Singapore: Recent Developments and Legal Strategies

Professor Dan W. Puchniak

Professor of Law

SMU Yong Pung How School of Law

SYNOPSIS

Over the past several years there have been a significant number of important decisions that have developed and refined the law of minority shareholders’ remedies in Singapore. This seminar will provide an overview of the law governing the primary remedies available to minority shareholders to protect their rights: the derivative action, oppression remedy and just and equitable winding-up. After providing this overview, the seminar will focus on several of the most important recent cases impacting these shareholders’ remedies. The seminar will conclude by suggesting how these recent developments impact the legal strategies available for protecting minority shareholders in Singapore.   

This session is part of the SMU Law Academy “Recent Highlights” series. Designed with the busy practitioner in mind, this series provides participants with a convenient platform to obtain timely and practical bite-sized analysis of the latest developments in various areas of the law. The series will be taught by leading and experienced experts curated from academia and practice. Each topic in the series is distilled into a short-duration online webinar so that busy legal professionals can be effectively updated with the most material developments affecting their practice.
   

SPEAKER

Dr. Dan W. Puchniak is a Professor in the Yong Pung How School of Law (YPHSL) at Singapore Management University. His research on minority shareholders’ remedies has been cited several times by Singapore courts. Dan has won numerous awards for his research and teaching on corporate law and governance, with a focus on Singapore and Asia. He has co-authored the Company Law chapter for the Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases for over a decade and has served as a Roundtable Member for the ACRA Institute of Corporate Law. Dan has taught and given over 100 invited lectures at leading universities, government institutions, international organizations, stock exchanges, and companies around the world on comparative corporate law and governance. He has advised international organizations on the development of corporate law in Asia, served as an expert in high stakes complex corporate law disputes in Asia, and previously practiced corporate commercial litigation in one of Canada’s leading law firms.  

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