[SMULA] Recent Highlights Series - A Bird’s Eye View of the Current Law of Minority Shareholders’ Remedies in Singapore: Highlights, Developments, and Strategies

Please click here if you are unable to view this page.

SMU LAW ACADEMY “RECENT HIGHLIGHTS” SERIES

A Bird’s Eye View of the Current Law of Minority Shareholders’ Remedies in Singapore: Highlights, Developments, and Strategies

Professor Dan W. Puchniak

Professor of Law

SMU Yong Pung How School of Law

SYNOPSIS

In recent years there have been a significant number of important decisions that have developed and refined the law of minority shareholders’ remedies in Singapore. Given the volume of decisions and increasing sophistication of the jurisprudence, it is imperative to take stock of the current legal landscape. This seminar will begin by taking a “bird’s eye view” of the current law, with an emphasis on recent developments, to make it clear what legal remedies minority shareholders have at their disposal – and, more importantly, when each of these remedies should be used. This update may be useful as there are recent cases in which selecting the wrong remedy has been detrimental to a minority shareholder's claim.

The seminar will then highlight several more nuanced recent developments on the jurisprudence concerning the derivative action, oppression remedy, and just and equitable winding-up. This examination of recent decisions will provide important guidance for giving minority shareholders advice for protecting their rights and for successfully pursuing remedies on their behalf. The seminar will conclude by highlighting the most important tensions that currently exist in the law of minority shareholders’ remedies with a view to providing practitioners with insight into how the jurisprudence is likely to develop in the future in this important area of company law.

This seminar 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.

FEES

a. Registration Fee
Registration fee of S$150* (inclusive of GST) applies

b. Group Registration
Registration fee of S$135* (inclusive of GST) applies if there are at least 10 participants from the same organisation.

c. SMU Alumni (LLB / JD / LLM graduates)
Registration fee of S$135* (inclusive of GST) applies for SMU LLB/ JD/ LLM Alumni

*Please note that there will be no refund of any fees should the participant cancel the registration/ fail to attend the event. However, registration is transferable. Notice of any change in participant should be sent to the Academy via email: smulawacademy@smu.edu.sg, by 25 November 2022.

SMU Law Academy reserves the right to cancel or postpone any event. In such case, we will arrange for the refund of fees paid.

Registration closes on 29 November 2022.

Complimentary for SMU Law Faculty, Staff & Students. Please sign up with your SMU email address. No CPD points are awarded for complimentary passholders.

DATE

2 December 2022

TIME

2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

PUBLIC CPD POINTS

2 points

VENUE

Webinar

PRACTICE AREA

Corporate/Commercial

TRAINING LEVEL

Update

PROGRAMME
2:15 PM	Participants to log in to webinar

2:30 PM	Start of Event

4:30 PM	End of Event

ABOUT THE SMU LAW ACADEMY

The SMU Law Academy has an established track record of providing the legal profession with high quality seminars and other opportunities to remain fully informed about contemporary legal developments in Singapore and beyond. Its carefully curated listing of seminars is developed with the profession’s multi-faceted needs in mind and meets the requirements of the CPD scheme. The Academy also administers the Auditing Scheme which enables members of the legal profession to consolidate and upgrade their understanding of the law by auditing courses in the School’s LL.B., J.D. and LL.M. programmes. For an overview of upcoming SMU Law Academy events, please click here.

ABOUT THE SILE'S CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME

This programme is an Accredited CPD Activity under the SILE’s CPD Scheme. Participants who wish to obtain CPD Points are reminded that they must comply strictly with the Attendance Policy set out in the CPD Guidelines. For this activity, this includes logging in at the start of the webinar and logging out at the conclusion of the webinar in the manner required by the organiser, and not being away from the entire activity for more than 15 minutes. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy will not be able to obtain CPD Points for attending the activity. Please refer to http://www.silecpdcentre.sg for more information.

To subscribe/ unsubscribe from The SMU Law Academy mailing list, please click here.