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Press releases

Hail Britannia: UK Shareholder Activism Can Get Results
Shareholder Activism in the UK: A Clinical Study (download PDF 92KB)
13th February 2006

Questioning Shareholder Activism: Groundbreaking Research Provides for the First Time Significant Evidence on How Shareholder Activism Can Influence Shareholder Returns
Launch of Centre for Corporate Governance (download PDF 88KB)
9th February 2006

London Business School launches new Centre for Corporate Governance
Creation of Centre for Corporate Governance (download PDF 24KB)
12th December 2005

 

Press coverage

Private Equity:  Boom or Bust?
Viral V. Acharya, Julian Franks and Henri Servaes
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance ( A Morgan Stanley Publication)
Fall 2007

Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes UK Focus Fund
Marco Becht, Julian Franks, Colin Mayer and Stefano Rossi
4th December 2006

Different votes for different folks (download PDF 756KB) 
Colin Mayer & Julian Franks
Financial Times
20th October 2006

Contribution to the Financial Times "Mastering Financial Management" series:
The Right Conditions for Trust Between Business
Professor Julian Franks & Professor Colin Mayer
19th June 2006 

London Business School Roundtable on Shareholder Activism in the UK (download PDF 2.1MB)
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (A Morgan Stanley publication)
Spring 2006

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