Law & Business Option - Wednesday May 15, 2024
The “campaign” recently launched by a group of minority investors in TotalEnergies has revived the debate on one of the strong markers of the renewal of corporate governance carried out from the beginning of the 2000s in monist limited companies: dissociation functions of chairman of the board of directors and general director.
Presented as the vector of a balanced distribution of roles and a necessary measure in the face of too much concentration of powers, all in a context of promoting shareholder democracy, what is the situation more than 20 years later?
Pierre Mudet
Partner
Pierre Mudet works mainly in the areas of stock market law, mergers and acquisitions and company law with clients of listed and unlisted companies in the context of national and international transactions.
He advises industrial groups, banks, investment funds and innovative companies in the new technologies sector.
Fabienne Kerebel
Counsel
She has acquired a solid expertise in the law of listed and unlisted companies and its various components, in particular private equity and mergers and acquisitions.
As such, Fabienne advises companies and executives on their external growth operations, changes in their governance or shareholding, the incentive of key managers or the reorganization of corporate structures. She has developed an in-depth practice of financial securities transactions which allows her to support start-ups, SMEs and mid-cap companies in their fundraising as well as investors at all stages of their investment.