D.F. King General Meeting Season Review 2024

Each year, D.F. King, a part of MUFG Corporate Markets, publish their General Meeting Season Review report which looks at the highs and lows of the AGM Season, unpicks trends in investor voting behaviour and provides deep insight into how the year has played out for European issuers.

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Overall, the 2024 General Meeting Season demonstrated European and British companies’ ability to possess strong governance, present transparent remuneration and make sensible requests of their shareholders.  2024 high voting results have taken more than a decade to achieve.  It is fair to say that company-investor relations have never been sounder on this topic.

It is therefore ironic to have accomplished so much in corporate governance at a time when local European and the London stock exchanges are under so much pressure to keep their best companies and attract new ones to list in the face of the temptation of relisting elsewhere, such as New York, to attain a possible share price re-rating.  Surely our only solution in this competitive landscape cannot simply be to “dumb down” our local corporate governance codes and abandon all the valuable improvements in international best practice?

David Chase Lopes, Managing Director, D.F. King Ltd., a part of MUFG Corporate Markets, EMEA