Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27871 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series No. 104
Publisher: 
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This article analyses the recent Leica judgement of the Higher Regional Court Frankfurt/Main and its consequences. In this judgement, the court has established an infringement of special formal requirements with respect to Leica´s invitation to the Annual General Meeting which, if correct, would bear dire consequences for a variety of listed companies, even in DAX. On the other hand, there is a recent decision of the Higher Regional Court Munich in a similar case concerning Hypovereinsbank, coming to the opposite conclusion. Besides the fact that, in the opinion of the authors, the Leica decision not only is legally unfounded and based on a completely unbalanced evaluation of formalistic requirements, it again proves the formalistic approach of German stock corporation law and leaves companies, especially with a respective regulation in their articles of association, their advisors and investors in a situation of uncertainty that has to be clarified urgently by the legislator.
Subjects: 
Annual general meeting
invitation
power of attorney
authorization
written form
Leica
Hypovereinsbank
Wella
JEL: 
K12
K19
K22
K29
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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