New requirements for the encouragement of long-term shareholder engagement bring new challenges for financial institutions – is your institution ready for the SRD II? Background Designed to encourage long-term shareholder engagement in EU/EEA publicly listed companies, the second Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II) sets out new requirements on a wide group of institutions in the financial sector including financial intermediaries, asset managers, institutional investors and proxy advisory firms. On Monday 10 June 2019, the amended […]