quasi public corporation quasi public corporation

public company | publicly-traded company | publicly-held company | public corporation | publicly-traded corporation | publicly-held corporation

government corporation | Crown corporation | government business enterprise | state-owned corporation | state-owned enterprise

public corporation | Crown company | Crown corporation | government corporation

The Canadian Public Relations Society, Inc. [ CPRS | The Canadian Public Relations Society ]

open corporation [ public corporation | open company | public company | publicly held corporation | widely-held corporation | widely held corporation | widely held public corporation | widely-held company | widely held company ]

firm governed by commercial law [ commercial firm ]

Corporate Governance in Crown Corporations and other Public Enterprises: Guidelines [ Guidelines on Corporate Governance in Crown Corporations and other Public Enterprises ]

4. For the purposes of Article 8 and 14, it shall not be deemed from the mere fact that a person is in possession of inside information that that person has used that information and has thus engaged in insider dealing, where such person has obtained that inside information in the conduct of a public takeover or merger with a company and uses that inside information solely for the purpose of proceeding with that merger or public takeover, provided that at the point of approval of the merger or acceptance of the offer by the shareholders of that company, any inside information has been made public or has otherwise ceased to constitute ins ...[+++]ide information.

Without prejudice to Article 4(6), Member States which before the entry into force of this Directive have already taken measures to ensure a more balanced representation of women and men among the non-executive directors of listed companies and large public undertakings or Member States where other e.g. self-regulatory measures aiming to ensure a more balanced representation of women and men among the non-executive directors of listed companies and large public undertakings exist may suspend the application of the procedural requirements relating to appointments contained in Article 4(1), (3), (4) and (5) and the application of Article 5 ...[+++](1), provided that an assessment by the European Commission indicates that those measures enable members of the under-represented sex to hold either at least 40 per cent of the non-executive director positions of listed companies or the one-third objective referred to in Article 4(7) by at the latest 1 January 2020, or at the latest 1 January 2018 for public undertakings.

A Member State which before the entry into force of this Directive has sought to achieve a more balanced representation of women and men among the non-executive directors or among the directors (executive and non-executive) generally of listed companies may suspend the application of Article 4, 5 and 6 of this Directive in respect of listed companies which are public companies if it considers that members of the under-represented sex will, on average, hold at least 40 per cent of the non-executive positions or one third of the director (executive and non-executive) positions generally of such companies by at the latest 1 January 2020, or ...[+++] at the latest 1 January 2018 for listed companies which are public undertakings.

7. Notes, in this context, that some Member States have recently reacted to developments within their domestic markets for corporate control by introducing additional provisions regarding the conduct of takeover bids such as the ‘put up or shut up’ rule of the UK Takeover Panel, which strives for clarification on whether a takeover bid has to be launched (‘put up’) or not (‘shut up’) in cases where it is unclear if the offeror really intends to submit a bid for the offeree company;