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SUMMARY:IIC | Empowering Minority Shareholders and Advancing Individual Investor Rights
DESCRIPTION: \n12 June 2025 | 10:30 – 17:30 | Cremades y Calvo-Sotelo\, Madrid  \nThe voice of minority shareholders remains insufficiently heard across the EU.  \nDespite recent regulatory progress\, individual investors continue to face significant obstacles in exercising their rights at Annual General Meetings (AGMs) and accessing effective redress mechanisms when their interests are undermined. \nWhat should be the step forward to protect shareholders’ rights? \nThis issue will be addressed during the upcoming: \nInternational Investors’ Conference | Empowering Minority Shareholders and Advancing Individual Investor Rights\nBETTER FINANCE\, in collaboration with its member organisation AEMEC\, will bring together some of the most influential voices in EU financial markets\, investor protection\, and regulatory policy to discuss shareholders’ rights in European financial markets to address two critical themes for European investors: \n\nEnhancing minority shareholders’ empowerment\nAdvancing collective redress mechanisms.\n\nThrough this conference\, BETTER FINANCE & AEMEC aim to develop a platform for fostering dialogue\, sharing best practices\, and strengthening investor rights in Europe. \nThe conference will follow the EuroShareholders Award\, which will honour the top three IBEX-35 companies with the most shareholder-friendly practices. \nProgramme\n  \n10:30 – 11:00 | Registrtion & Coffee\n\n11:00 – 11:10 | Welcome\n\n11:10 – 11:30 | Keynote Speech\n\n11:30 – 13:00 | Panel Discussion\nEmpowering Individual Shareholders in Annual General Meetings \n\n13:00 – 13:20 | Keynote Speech\n\n13:20 – 13:40 | Presentation\n\n13:40 – 15:10 | Standing Lunch\n\n15:10 – 15:30 | Keynote Speech\n\n15:30 – 17:00 | Panel Discussion\nAdvancing Collective Redress for European Shareholders \n\n17:00 – 17:20 | Keynote Speech\n\n17:20 – 17:30 | Closing Remarks\n\n17:30 – 19:00 | Reception\nConfirmed Speakers\nJosé Ramón Bauza\, President of the Balearic Islands (2011-2015) and MEP (2019-2024) \nFlorian Beckermann\, Managing Director\, Austrian Shareholder Association\, IVA \nJella Benner-Heinacher\, Senior Advisor Foreign Affairs\, DSW \nJavier Cremades\, Secretary General of AEMEC and Lawyer at Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo \nJosé F. Estévez\, Vice Chair of the Legal Committee of BETTER FINANCE and Vice Chair at Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo \nJonás Fernández\, Member of the European Parliament\, ECON Committee Member \nMaría José García Beato\, State Attorney\, Director of Banco Sabadell\, Sabadell \nChristiane Hölz\, Managing Director\, DSW \nDavid Kovel\, Managing Partner at Kirby McInerney \nEnma López\, Secretariat for Economic Policy and Digital Transformation of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party\, Spain \nAleksandra Mączyńska\, Managing Director\, BETTER FINANCE \nMark Northway\, Chairman of the World Federation of Investors (WFI) \nMP Miguel Angel Paniagua\, Spokesperson of the Committee on Economic Affairs\, Trade and Digital Transformation \nManuel Pardos\, President of ADICAE (Asociación de Usuarios de Bancos\, Cajas y Seguros) \nGuillaume Prache\, Founder and Senior Adviser\, BETTER FINANCE \nFlip Schreurs\, Chairman of the Fiat Chrysler Investors Recovery Stichting (FCIRS) \nRafael Tripero\, AEMEC Advisor and Managing Director at Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo \nOctávio Viana\, President of the Board of Directors\, ATM – the Portuguese Investor Association \nmore speakers will be announced in due time.  \n** \nTo attend the conference\, please register via the form below. We look forward to welcoming you to Madrid or online as we explore how we can strengthen shareholders’ rights in the EU. \nMake sure to use the buttons below the registration form to add the event to your calendar. \n
URL:https://betterfinance.eu/event/iic-empowering-minority-shareholders-advancing-individual-investor-rights/
LOCATION:Cremades y Calvo-Sotelo\, Calle Jorge Juan 30\, Madrid\, 28001\, Spain
CATEGORIES:International Conference
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