公司投票代理权制度研究

A Study of the Corporation Proxy

公司投票代理权制度是现代公司治理中的一项重要法律制度,美、德、日等许多西方发达国家均已建立起本国的投票代理权制度。通过对发达国家的投票代理权制度比较研究不难发现,该制度的有效运作需以分散化公司股权结构为前提条件。我国上市公司已开始呈现股权分散化发展趋势,建立和完善我国投票代理权制度具有重要的现实意义。构建我国投票代理权制度时应考虑确立备案制监管模式、明确信息披露的要求、禁止有偿征集、充分保护股东建议权、明确有效委托方式并建立虚假陈述责任制度。

Proxy is an important legal system for corporation governance and has proven very successful in the U. S. , Germany, Japan, et al. Through a comparative study of the proxy institution in the developed countries, one can easily find that a dispersed stock structure is one of the pre - conditions to successfully introduce of the system. Since China is now observing a change of the stock structure of listed companies and it seems that the equity of a company is gradually not controlled by few extremely controlling shareholders, but by a few shareholders, it is an appropriate time for China to establish a proxy system. While establishing such a system, we should carefully consider the following factors ： the record and supervision system, requirements for information disclosure, prohibition of solic- itation with payment, protection of shareholders＇ right to proposal, effective forms of agency, liability and effect of false statement, etc.