The Study Of Shareholdervoting Proxy

As a tool of controlling the investment to the company voting right is the basic rightof the shareholder. Shareholder can attend the meeting personally or act as proxy.Shareholder voting agents including general agents of the shareholders the right to voteand the right to special agent-agent collection. The person who solicits the voting usuallycan obtain large quantity voting right, so they can influence the policy decision of thecompany. But the solicitors are not the investor of company, theirs interest is not the samewith shareholder, so they may gain some interest by damaging the shareholder’s interest.Because the question above, some countries draft the rule of proxy to manage thisaction. The rule of America is the most perfect and delicate. This article based the SecurityExchange Act of America, the author investigate the law of other countries, such asGerman、Japan、Taiwan region and Chinese.Also Chinese National Unit share, legal unitshare, community public shares, foreign capital share of shareholder voting proxy arestudied by author. This study may have some benefit for establishing shareholder votingproxy rule in our country.