Regulating squeeze-out techniques by controlling shareholders: The divergence between Hong Kong and Singapore

• Main Authors: CHEN, Christopher C. H., ZHANG, Wei, WAN, Wai Yee
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Squeeze-outs; delistings; going private transactions; controlling shareholders; takeovers; Hong Kong; Singapore; Asian Studies; Commercial Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2229; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/4181/viewcontent/Privatisation_JCLS_220317_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Squeeze-out transactions are controversial as the controlling shareholders may expropriate the minorities’ shareholdings at unattractive prices. Existing scholarship has focused on the optimal approach towards regulating such transactions in the US and the UK, which have widely dispersed public shar...