Capital structures and corporate governance. The role of hybrid financial instruments.
Sasso, Lorenzo
Despite a clear distinction in law between equity and debt, the results of such a categorization can be misleading. The growth of financial innovation in recent decades necessitates the allocation of control and cash-flow rights in a way that diverges from the classic understanding. Some of the financial instruments issued by companies, so-called hybrid instruments, fall into a grey area between debt and equity, forcing regulators to look beyond the legal form of an instrument to its practical substance. This innovative study, by emphasizing the agency relations and the property law claims embedded in the use of such unconventional instruments, analyses and discusses the governance regulation of hybrids in a way that is primarily functional, departing from more common approaches that focus on tax advantages and internal corporate control.
年:
2013
出版社:
Kluwer Law International
语言:
english
页:
248
ISBN 10:
9041148434
ISBN 13:
9789041148438
系列:
International Banking and Financial Law Series.
文件:
PDF, 6.06 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013