Alternative Dispute Resolution and Corporate Governance

The Corporate Governance Regional Roundtables have identified poor regulatory and judicial enforcement as a significant impediment to shareholder protection and foreign investment in emerging markets.

Deficiencies in emerging market enforcement have helped make arbitration of company law disputes (ACLD) the preferred method of dispute resolution for private-equity investors in many key emerging markets, such as Russia and China.

The OECD's Corporate Affairs Division has therefore initiated an ACLD programme to:

1. generate policy dialogue on the role of ACLD in corporate governance;
2. develop a global comparative understanding of how various OECD member and non-member states approach ACLD; and
3. develop and disseminate practical guidelines and other documentation on using ACLD to protect shareholders' rights

Documents

• Corporate Governance Related Disputes -- Exploratory meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, 20th March 2006
• The Alternative Dispute Resolution and Corporate Governance Expert meeting, Vienna, Austria, 25th June 2003

More information

• Programme Statement for Corporate Governance and Arbitration of Company-Law Disputes
• General Information on the OECD's work on Corporate Governance

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