The Latin American Corporate Governance Roundtable and Companies Circle

The Latin American Corporate Governance Roundtable, established April 2000, aims to facilitate public and private sector policy-dialogue. It provides a forum for the exchange of experiences between senior policy-makers, regulators and market participants with first hand experience of present developments and ongoing work. The Roundtable has also established a Companies Circle to provide Policy and practical input to the Roundtable's work and to promote good corporate governance practivces at the company level.

Building on its discussions, the Roundtable has issued a Latin American Corporate Governance White Paper.  It is available in English, Portuguese and Spanish. The White Paper targets priorities for action. Its conclusions serve as a practical reform agenda and also provided valuable input to the 2004 revision of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.

Participants to the Roundtable come from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and Venezuela.

• Download the White Paper on Corporate Governance in Latin America
  English / Portuguese / Spanish

• Case Studies of Good Corporate Governance Practices:
  The Latin American Roundtable Companies Circle 2nd Edition, "featuring the experience of 13 leading Latin American companies, was launched on the occasion of the 4th meeting of the Latin American Roundtable Companies Circle, held on 22 November 2006 in São Paulo, Brazil.
  Download English / Portuguese / Spanish 

Recent Developments:

• The Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance agreed at its eighth annual meeting in Medellin, Colombia on 10-11 October, to develop recommendations to encourage institutional investors to play a more engaged and informed role in promoting better corporate governance in the region.

• OECD and the Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance were recognized as being among the five main institutional supporters of Bovespa's Novo Mercado in a ceremony on March 1, 2007. Bovespa was celebrating the 100th company to join the special corporate governance listing segments of the trading board. OECD has been providing advice and support since the first Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance was held in Brazil in April 2000, the same year the Novo Mercado was launched.

• The 4th meeting of the Latin American Roundtable Companies Circle took place on November 22 2006 in São Paulo, Brazil. The objectives of the meeting were to launch a new set of company case studies, and to advance work on its practical guide to implementation of good corporate governance.

• Other Meetings