Limited shareholder inspection rights in Singapore: Worrying legal gap or unnecessary for rankings?

• Main Authors: PUCHNIAK, Dan W., TANG Samantha S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Singapore company law; corporate governance; inspection rights; controlling shareholders; family firms; state owned enterprises; Asian Studies; Business Organizations Law; Comparative and Foreign Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4018; https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99606481702601&context=L&vid=65SMU_INST:SMU_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=Everything&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Research%20Handbook%20on%20Shareholder%20Inspection%20Rights:%20A%20comparative%20perspective&offset=0
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Singapore’s formal corporate law and governance rules normally meet or exceed global standards – which explains why it regularly tops prominent Asian and global rankings for good corporate governance. As such, Singapore’s outlier status, as the only leading economy in Asia that does not provide a sp...