The annual Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) was held at National University of Singapore on June 12–13, 2026. The GCGC is the leading corporate governance conference globally, and brings together world class academics in law and finance from top universities from Europe, the US and Asia. The SCGI is one of the twelve organizing institutions, along with Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Yale Law School, Goethe University, imperial College, Oxford University, National University of Singapore, Peking University, Seoul University, and the University of Tokyo.
During the conference, several highly relevant and interesting papers were presented, and very fruitful discussions took place in connection with them. Among these presentations were, for example a presentation on the article Controllers Unbound, by Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School) and Kobi Kastiel (Tel Aviv University). Presented by Bebchuk and discussed by Jill Fisch (University of Pennsylvania), the paper argues that Delaware’s recent Senate Bill 21 will channel substantial private benefits to controlling shareholders at public investors’ expense, shift U.S. ownership patterns toward small-minority controllers, and generate value losses that far exceed any gains to those controllers – while also placing the U.S. behind other advanced economies in regard of investor protection.
Among the highlights was also a panel discussion on The Political Economy of Global Stock Exchange Competition, based on a paper by Curtis Milhaupt (Stanford) and Georg Ringe (Hamburg University) – which brought together representatives from the London Stock Exchange, Singapore Exchange (SGX), Tokyo Stock Exchange, and Latham & Watkins to explore the regulatory and political forces shaping where companies choose to list in an increasingly competitive global market.
Programme and presented papers, as well as more information on the GCGC, is available below and at www.gcgc.global.
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