Legal Challenges in the Corona Pandemic: Holding Virtual Shareholder Meetings
Channel: Latest Thinking
Date: 2020-11-27

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The Corona pandemic made it impossible to hold general shareholder meetings in the traditional manner. In this video, ELENA DUBOVITSKAYA explores how German corporate law responded to this dilemma through what she refers to as The Covid Act. 
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Out of necessity, the act bypassed the shareholder’s heretofore irrevocable right to be physically present at the general meeting. Dubovitskaya examines the extent to which the Covid Act can act as a blueprint for forthcoming legislation on the manner in which fully virtual general shareholder meetings can be organized.
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https://lt.org/publication/what-can-we-learn-fully-virtual-shareholder-meetings-have-taken-place-during-corona


This LT Publication is divided into the following chapters:
0:00 Question
2:21 Method
4:37 Findings
7:12 Relevance
8:06 Outlook