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1.

State-Owned Enterprises in Singapore: Historical Insights into a Potential Model for Reform

28 Columbia Journal of Asian Law 61-97(2015) , NUS - Centre for Law & Business Working Paper No. 15/02, NUS Law Working Paper No. 2015/003, NUS - Centre for Asian Legal Studies Working Paper No. 15/03
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2016
Cheng Han Tan, Dan W. Puchniak and Umakanth Varottil
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law
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Singapore, State owned enterprises, corporate governance, Singapore history

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The Enigma of Hostile Takeovers in Japan: Bidder Beware

Berkeley Business Law Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2018, Forthcoming, Dan W. Puchniak & Masafumi Nakahigashi, ‘The Enigma of Hostile Takeovers in Japan: Bidder Beware’ in Umakanth Varottil & Wan Wai Yee, Comparative Takeover Regulation: Global and Asian Perspectives (Cambridge University Press) Forthcoming, NUS - Centre for Asian Legal Studies Working Paper No. 16/03, NUS Law Working Paper No. 2016/008, NUS - Centre for Law & Business Working Paper No. 16/04
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2018
Dan W. Puchniak and Masafumi Nakahigashi
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and Nagoya University - Graduate School of Law
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Comparative Takeover Regulation, Hostile Takeovers, Comparative Corporate Governance, Shareholder Structure, Japanese Corporate Law, Corporate Culture, Dispersed Shareholders, Lifetime Employment

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Varieties of Independent Directors in Asia: A Taxonomy

This working paper will be published as a chapter in “Independent Directors in Asia: A Historical, Contextual, and Comparative Approach”, Dan W. Puchniak, Harald Baum and Luke Nottage (Eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2017, Forthcoming)., NUS Law Working Paper No. 2017/001, NUS - Centre for Asian Legal Studies Working Paper 17/01, NUS - Centre for Law & Business Working Paper 17/01
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2017
Dan W. Puchniak and Kon Sik Kim
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and Seoul National University
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Independent directors, comparative corporate law and governance, Asian corporate law and governance, shareholder ownership structures, controlling shareholders, legal origins, family firms, SOEs, GLCs, functional substitutes, political economy, cultural norms, board of directors, supervisory board

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The False Hope of Stewardship in the Context of Controlling Shareholders: Making Sense Out of the Global Transplant of a Legal Misfit

American Journal of Comparative Law (Forthcoming), European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 589/2021
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 03 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2021
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Shareholder Stewardship, Controlling Shareholders, Comparative Corporate Law and Governance, Institutional Investors, Legal Transplants, ESG

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Multiple Faces of Shareholder Power in Asia: Complexity Revealed

NUS - Centre for Law & Business Working Paper No. 14/03, NUS Law Working Paper No. 2014/005, NUS - Centre for Asian Legal Studies Working Paper No. 14/06
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 26 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2016
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Comparative corporate law, shareholder power, Asian shareholders, private benefits of control, controlling shareholders, independent directors, proxy contests, hostile takeovers, shareholder litigation, culture and corporate governance

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No Need for Asia to be Woke: Contextualizing Anglo-America’s 'Discovery' of Corporate Purpose

RED Volume 4, Issue 1, 2022, pages 14 to 21, available at, https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-red-2022-1-page-14.htm (English); https://www.cairn.info/revue-red-2022-1-page-16.htm (French);, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 646/2022.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Corporate purpose, shareholder primacy, Friedman doctrine, stakeholders, comparative corporate law, Asian law, Anglo-American, prosperity, diversity

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Independent Directors in Singapore: Puzzling Compliance Requiring Explanation

American Journal of Comparative Law, 2016, Forthcoming, NUS - Centre for Law & Business Working Paper No. 15/03 , NUS Law Working Paper No. 2015/006 , NUS - Centre for Asian Legal Studies Working Paper No. 15/06
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 09 May 2015 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2017
Dan W. Puchniak and Luh Luh Lan
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law
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Independent directors, comparative corporate law, corporate governance codes, comply or explain, signalling, controlling shareholders, private benefits of control, functional substitutes, regulatory design, state owned enterprises, family companies

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Global Shareholder Stewardship: Complexities, Challenges, and Possibilities

in Global Shareholder Stewardship, Dionysia Katelouzou & Dan W. Puchniak eds, Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 595/2021, King's College London Law School Research Paper
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 29 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Dionysia Katelouzou and Dan W. Puchniak
King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law and Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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stewardship, institutional investors, controlling shareholders, comparative law, Asia, sustainability, enforcement, ESG

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Related Party Transactions in Commonwealth Asia: Complexity Revealed

NUS Law Working Paper No. 2018/014, NUS Centre for Asian Legal Studies Working Paper 18/03, NUS EW Barker Centre for Law & Business Working Paper 18/02, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 404/2018
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 14 May 2019
Dan W. Puchniak and Umakanth Varottil
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law
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Comparative corporate law and governance, related party transactions, Commonwealth Asia, World Bank Doing Business Report, legal origins theory

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Rethinking Acting in Concert: Activist ESG Stewardship is Shareholder Democracy

NUS Law Working Paper No. 2023/023, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 731/2023
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2023
Dan W. Puchniak and Umakanth Varottil
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law
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ESG, shareholder activism, stewardship, acting in concert, corporate governance

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Diversity of Shareholder Stewardship in Asia: Faux Convergence

53(3) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 829–880 (2020), European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 485/2019, NUS Law Working Paper No. 2019/027, The University of Tokyo Business Law Working Paper Series No.2019-E-01, NUS Centre for Asian Legal Studies Working Paper 19/08, NUS EW Barker Centre for Law & Business Working Paper 19/05
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 06 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2020
Gen Goto, Alan K. Koh and Dan W. Puchniak
University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University and Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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shareholder stewardship, stewardship codes, institutional investors, shareholder structure, legal transplants, faux convergence, comparative corporate law, UK stewardship code, Japanese corporate governance, Singapore corporate governance, corporate law in Asia

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Company Law (2010)

Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Cases 2010, 196, Teo Keang Sood. ed., Academy Publishing, 2011
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 29 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2015
Dan W. Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
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Singapore company law, lifting the corporate veil, breaches of fiduciary duties, shareholders' meetings, minority shareholders' remedies, oppression

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Land of the Falling 'Poison Pill': Understanding Defensive Measures in Japan on Their Own Terms

41(3) University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 687–754 (2020), NUS Law Working Paper No. 2019/002, NUS Centre for Asian Legal Studies Working Paper 19/02, NUS EW Barker Centre for Law & Business Working Paper 19/02
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 19 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2020
Alan K. Koh, Masafumi Nakahigashi and Dan W. Puchniak
Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Nagoya University - Graduate School of Law and Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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comparative corporate law, comparative corporate governance, Japan, hostile takeovers, poison pill, corporate governance codes, stewardship

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Company Law (2014)

Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Cases 2014, p. 168, 2015
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 12 Jul 2015
Dan W. Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
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Singapore company law, lifting the corporate veil, attribution, corporate organs, directors’ duties, dividends, company charges, and the oppression remedy

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Singapore’s Puzzling Embrace of Shareholder Stewardship: A Successful Secret

NUS Law Working Paper No. 2019/022, NUS Centre for Asian Legal Studies Working Paper 19/07, NUS EW Barker Centre for Law & Business Working Paper 19/04, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Forthcoming), European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 484/2019
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2019
Dan W. Puchniak and Samantha Tang
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law
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shareholder stewardship, Singapore corporate governance, comparative corporate law, state owed enterprises, family firms

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Company Law (2009)

Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Cases 2009, 158, Teo Keang Sood, ed., Academy Publishing, 2010
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 29 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2015
Dan W. Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
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Singapore company law, lifting the corporate veil, breaches of fiduciary duties, shareholders’ rights, and minority shareholders’ remedies

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Company Law (2015)

Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Cases 2015, p. 255, 2016
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Sep 2016
Dan W. Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
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Singapore company law, meetings, corporate organs, directors’ right to inspect documents, fraudulent trading, derivative actions, oppression remedy

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A New Era for the Business Judgment Rule in Japan? Domestic and Comparative Lessons from the Apamanshop Case

Edited version of this working paper published as: Case No. 21: Corporate Law – Business Judgment Rule – Derivative Action – Supreme Court, 15 July 2010 – ‘Apamanshop’ with Comment in Business Law in Japan - Cases and Comments, 215 (Moritz Bälz Et Al. Eds., Wolters Kluwer, 2012)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 01 May 2013 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2017
Dan W. Puchniak and Masafumi Nakahigashi
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and Nagoya University - Graduate School of Law
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Japanese corporate law, comparative corporate law, business judgment rule, legal transplants, leximetrics, Japanese corporate governance

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Company Law (2013)

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Company Law (2013)

Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Cases 2013, 179 (Teo Keang Sood ed., Academy Publishing, 2014)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2015
Dan W. Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
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Singapore company law, loans to directors, ratification of breaches of directors' duties, articles of association, breach of fiduciary duties, derivative actions, oppression remedy.

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Company Law (2012)

Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Cases 2012, 143 (Teo Keang Sood ed., Academy Publishing, 2013)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2015
Dan W. Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
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Singapore company law, lifting the corporate veil, breaches of fiduciary duties, shareholders’ meetings and procedural irregularities, fraudulent trading, derivative actions

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The Efficiency of Friendliness: Japanese Corporate Governance Succeeds Again Without Hostile Takeovers

Berkeley Business Law Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2008
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 27 Apr 2013
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Hostile Takeovers, Comparative Corporate Law, Comparative Corporate Governance, Japanese Law, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Law and Economics

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The Derivative Action in Asia: A Complex Reality

9 Berkeley Business Law Journal 1 (2012)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2013
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Derivative actions, shareholder litigation, comparative corporate law, comparative corporate governance, Asian culture, economic rationality, irrational behavior, legal origins, leximetrics, LLS&V, convergence, path dependence, comparative law, Japan, China, India, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan

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Institutional Investors in China: Corporate Governance and Policy Channeling in the Market Within the State

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 590/2021, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 03 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2021
Lin Lin and Dan W. Puchniak
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law and Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Chinese Corporate Governance, Institutional Investors, Comparative Corporate Governance, Chinese Communist Party, Varieties of Capitalism

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Related Party Transactions in Commonwealth Asia: Complicating the Comparative Paradigm

The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions (Luca Enriques & Tobias Tröger eds., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming) , Berkeley Business Law Journal, Vol. 16, Forthcoming, NUS Law Working Paper No. 2019/001
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2019
Dan W. Puchniak and Umakanth Varottil
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law
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comparative corporate law and governance, related party transactions, Commonwealth Asia, World Bank Doing Business Report, legal origins theory

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Company Law (2011)

Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Cases 2011, 143 (Teo Keang Sood ed., Academy Publishing, 2012)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 30 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2015
Dan W. Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
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Singapore company law, lifting the corporate veil, breaches of fiduciary duties, shareholders' meetings, directors’ right to inspect accounting and other records, informal resolutions and articles of association, disqualification of directors, derivative actions

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Company Law (2016)

Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Cases 2016, pp. 235-256 (2017)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Jul 2017
Dan W. Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
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Singapore company law, corporate veil, memorandum of association, directors, accounts, shares, just and equitable winding-up, derivative actions, oppression remedy.

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Japan's Love for Derivative Actions: Irrational Behavior and Non-Economic Motives as Rational Explanations for Shareholder Litigation

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 45, No. 1, January 2012
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 27 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2013
Dan W. Puchniak and Masafumi Nakahigashi
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and Nagoya University - Graduate School of Law
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Derivative Actions, Shareholders' Remedies, Comparative Corporate Law, Japanese Corporate Law, Law and Economics, Behavioural Law and Economics, Comparative Law, Asian Law, Shareholder Litigation, Company Law, Corporate Governance

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Company Law (2017)

SAL Annual Review (2018)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 Jul 2018
Dan W. Puchniak, Cheng Han Tan and Samantha Tang
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law
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Singapore company law, separate legal personality and veil-piercing, shadow and de facto directors, directors' duties, ratification, companies struck off the register, attribution, the oppression remedy, and just and equitable winding-up

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The Japanization of American Corporate Governance? Evidence of the Never-Ending History for Corporate Law

Asian-Pacific Law & Policy, Journal Vol. 9, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 26 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2013
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Comparative corporate governance, corporate governance convergence, corporate governance models, Japanese corporate governance, shareholder primacy, dispersed shareholding, hostile takeovers, main bank monitoring, concentrated shareholding, poison pill, staggered board, director primacy

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Can a Global Legal Misfit be Fixed? Shareholder Stewardship in a Controlling Shareholder and ESG World

in, GLOBAL SHAREHOLDER STEWARDSHIP (Dionysia Katelouzou & Dan W. Puchniak eds., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming), European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 600/2021
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2021
Ernest Lim and Dan W. Puchniak
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law and Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Shareholder Stewardship, Controlling Shareholders, Comparative Corporate Law and Governance, ESG

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Why Investor Trust (and Not the Law) Matters: Japanese Lifetime Employment's Role as a Non-Legal Mechanism for Credible Investor Trust

Number of pages: 115 Posted: 01 Sep 2013
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Japanese corporate law, comparative corporate governance, law matters debate, lifetime employment, dispersed shareholding, LLSV, legal origins, minority shareholder rights, law and development

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Sealing Orders After Sierra Club

27 The Advocates’ Quarterly 173 (2003)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Apr 2013
John B. Laskin and Dan W. Puchniak
Torys LLP and Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Sealing orders, privilege, confidential information, public information, disclosure, litigation process, confidential commercial information, court documents

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A Skeptic's Guide to Miwa and Ramseyer's ‘The Fable of the Keiretsu’

12 Journal of Japanese Law 273 (2007)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 01 May 2013
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Japanese corporate law, Japanese corporate governance, main banks, Keiretsu, comparative corporate law and governance, varieties of capitalism, Miwa & Ramseyer, Fable of the Keiretsu, law and economics

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Developments in Singapore Company Law in 2021

Forthcoming, Alan K Koh, Dan W Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan, ‘Company Law’ (2021) 22 SAL Ann Rev ____, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 655/2022, Singapore Management University School of Law Research Paper, Nanyang Business School Research Paper No. 22-31
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2022
Alan K. Koh, Dan W. Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan
Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
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Corporate law, Singapore, directors’ duties, shareholder remedies, direct suits, shareholder litigation, veil piercing

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Perverse Main Bank Rescue in the Lost Decade: Proof that Unique Institutional Incentives Drive Japanese Corporate Governance

Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 Apr 2013
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Comparative corporate governance, Japanese main banks, law and economics, Basel Accord, Comparative law, Japanese Law, Japanese corporate law and governance, Miwa & Ramseyer

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Limited Shareholder Inspection Rights in Singapore: Worrying Legal Gap or Unnecessary for Rankings?

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 608/2021
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2021
Dan W. Puchniak and Samantha Tang
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law
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Singapore company law, corporate governance, inspection rights, controlling shareholders, family firms, state owned enterprises

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Delusions of Hostility: The Marginal Role of Hostile Takeovers in Japanese Corporate Governance Remains Unchanged

14 Journal of Japanese Law 89 (2009)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 May 2013
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Hostile takeovers, friendly takeovers, comparative corporate governance, comparative corporate law, Japanese corporate law, Japanese corporate governance, varieties of capitalism, American model, poison pill, staggered boards

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Developments in Singapore Company Law in 2020

This is the accepted manuscript of a work that will be published in 2021 as: Alan K Koh, Dan W Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan, ‘Company Law’ (2020) 21 SAL Ann Rev ____, Nanyang Business School Research Paper No. 21-20, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 599/2021
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2021
Alan K. Koh, Dan W. Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan
Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
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Corporate law, Singapore, directors’ duties, shareholder remedies, investor protection, enforcement, litigation, corporate contract

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Company Law (2018)

(2018) 19 SAL Ann Rev 227
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Jan 2020
Dan W. Puchniak, Cheng Han Tan and Samantha Tang
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law
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Singapore company law: separate legal personality and veil-piercing, appointment of directors, shadow and de facto directors, directors' duties, directors' right to inspect, the oppression remedy, and just and equitable winding-up

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Company Law (2019)

(2019) 20 SAL Ann Rev 198
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2022
Alan K. Koh, Dan W. Puchniak and Cheng Han Tan
Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – School of Law; Centre for Public Affairs and Law; Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
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Singapore company law, directors' duties, attribution, share capital, valuation of shares, derivative actions, just and equitable winding up, and the oppression remedy.

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Corporate Purpose Beyond Borders: A Key to Saving Our Planet or Colonialism Repackaged?

Number of pages: 62
Roza Nurgozhayeva and Dan W. Puchniak
Nazarbayev University and Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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Corporate Purpose, Transnational/Multijurisdictional Corporate Governance, Climate Change, ESG, CSRD, CSDDD, SEC, Nonfinancial Disclosure

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The 2002 Reform of the Management of Large Corporations in Japan: A Race to Somewhere?

Australian Journal of Asian Law Vol. 5(1) (2003)
Posted: 21 May 2013
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

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Japanese corporate law, comparative corporate law, Delaware law, race to the bottom/top, regulatory arbitrage, UK company law, comply or explain, independent directors, board committee system, convergence, outside directors, gray directors, Sony-type company, Japanese corporate governance

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The Derivative Action: An Economic, Historical and Practice-Oriented Approach

in The Derivative Action in Asia: A Comparative and Functional Approach, 1 (Dan W. Puchniak et al. eds., Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Posted: 03 May 2013
Harald Baum and Dan W. Puchniak
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

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derivative actions, comparative corporate law, comparative corporate governance, shareholders’ remedies, corporate law in Asia

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Perverse Rescue in the Lost Decade: Main Banks in the Post-Bubble Era

in Corporate Governance in the 21st Century: Japan’s Gradual Transformation, 81 (Luke Nottage et al. eds., Edward Elgar, 2008)
Posted: 30 Apr 2013
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

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Japanese corporate governance, Japanese main banks, free-market theory, law and economics, comparative corporate governance, varieties of capitalism, economic models, Basel Accord, banking crisis, zombie firms, evergreening, ponzi scheme

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Singapore Derivative Actions: Mundanely Non-Asian, Intriguingly Non-American and at the Forefront of the Commonwealth

in The Derivative Action in Asia: A Comparative and Functional Approach, 323 (Dan W. Puchniak et al. eds., Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Posted: 30 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2014
Meng Seng Wee and Dan W. Puchniak
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law and Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

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Derivative actions, Singapore company law, Singapore corporate governance, Shareholders’ remedies, comparative corporate law, comparative corporate governance, Asian law, Asian values, Foss v. Harbottle, leximetrics, convergence, American model

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The Complexity of Derivative Actions in Asia: An Inconvenient Truth

in The Derivative Action in Asia: A Comparative and Functional Approach, 90 (Dan W. Puchniak et al. eds., Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Posted: 30 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 03 May 2013
Dan W. Puchniak
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

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Derivative actions, comparative corporate law, comparative corporate governance, shareholders’ remedies, Asian culture, legal origins, leximetrics, economic rationality, irrational behavior, LLS&V, Japanese corporate law, Korean corporate law, Taiwanese corporate law, Hong Kong corporate law, Chines

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Land of the Rising Derivative Action: Revisiting Irrationality to Understand Japan's Unreluctant Shareholder Litigant

The Derivative Action in Asia: A Comparative and Functional Approach, 128 (Dan W. Puchniak et al. eds., Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Posted: 30 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 13 May 2013
Masafumi Nakahigashi and Dan W. Puchniak
Nagoya University - Graduate School of Law and Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

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derivative actions, Japanese derivative actions, corporate law in Asia, comparative corporate law, shareholder litigation, comparative corporate law, comparative corporate governance, Asian culture, economic rationality, irrational behavior, behavioral law and economics, legal origins, leximetrics

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The Derivative Action in Asia: Some Concluding Observations

The Derivative Action in Asia: A Comparative and Functional Approach, 398 (Dan W. Puchniak et al. eds., Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Posted: 30 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 01 May 2013
Dan W. Puchniak and Harald Baum
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University and Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

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Derivative actions, comparative corporate law, comparative corporate governance, local context, Asian culture, economic rationality, irrational behavior, legal origins, leximetrics, coding, LLS&V, convergence, path dependence, Asian law, comparative law, Japanese corporate law, Chinese corporate