Shadow directors and controlling stakeholders: A comparative law perspective
Seminar
Visitor seminar Xin Tang

Date & time

20 November 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Venue

ANU College of Law Moot Court

Fellows Road

Register for the event

Event description

Under the newest revised Chinese Company Law, 'shadow director' has been added as one of the specific weapons to the arsenal to control the controlling shareholders in the business companies. However, when this regime was enacted by drawing lessons from UK and other common law jurisdictions, it has characteristics in context of Chinese law, and it should be enforced by the courts with caution. 

Speakers

Professor Xin Tang

Professor Xin (Sean) Tang

As a professor at Tsinghua University School of Law and the associate director of Tsinghua University Business Law Centre, Xin Tang is recognized as one of the leading researchers on securities law and corporate governance in China. Tang published widely in the fields of protection of securities market investors, fiduciary duties of the directors, senior managers and controlling shareholders, minority shareholder suits, merger and acquisition of the listed companies, legal liabilities of market wrongdoings. He is one of the members of the Editorial Advisory Board of “Business Laws of China” Series published by Thomson Reuters/West Press. Prior to joining Tsinghua's faculty in 2000, Tang was a research fellow and lecturer of law at Peking University Law School, where he was granted the Award “Excellent in Teaching”. He has also taught at leading universities as a visiting professor or an adjunct associate professor including the Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Israel) and Columbia University School of Law (US). Professor Tang served as a member of the Merger and Restructuring Review Commission of China Securities Regulatory Commission, an organization empowered by the securities market regulator in China to regulate the merger and acquisition of the public companies, he is now sitting in the Listing Board of Shanghai Stock Exchange, one of the leading securities markets in the world.