Please note this event has been postponed, and will now take place on Wednesday 11 May 2022. 

The King's Business, Regulation and Society research group aims to bring together scholars with interest and expertise in the development of all aspects of business law, regulation and policy from a broad range of methodological approaches with the aim to understand better the relationship between business and society.

Abstract

This presentation discusses dynamics and characteristics of concerted retail investors’ power as well as how corporations can harness this power by engaging with retail investors through virtual shareholders meetings and investor relations initiatives. In particular, the presentation focuses on investor relations initiatives aimed at gathering retail investors in online venues where questions about financial and non-financial performance are discussed by investors and with corporate leaders such as the chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, and the chief sustainability officer.

The speaker

Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci is the Jacobson Fellow at New York University School of Law. He specializes in corporate law, corporate governance, and corporate theory. His research investigates the nature and purpose of corporations as well as cutting edge corporate governance and corporate law issues. Sergio Alberto’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Australian Journal of Corporate Law, the Cornell Law Review, the Mississippi Law Journal, the Nevada Law Journal, and the Seattle Law Review. It has also been featured in blogs and magazines, including the CLS Blue Sky Blog—the Columbia Law School's Blog on Corporations and Capital Markets, TheCorporateCounsel.net, Forbes, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, the Machine Lawyering Blog of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Oxford Business Law Blog. In addition, Sergio Alberto co-authored the book Citizen Capitalism: How a Universal Fund Can Provide Influence and Income to All.