The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:05:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png How Germany’s Regulatory Reset Changes Investor Engagement and What It Means for The Market – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 How Germany’s Regulatory Reset Changes Investor Engagement and What It Means for The Market https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/04/15/how-germanys-regulatory-reset-changes-investor-engagement-and-what-it-means-for-the-market/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-germanys-regulatory-reset-changes-investor-engagement-and-what-it-means-for-the-market https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/04/15/how-germanys-regulatory-reset-changes-investor-engagement-and-what-it-means-for-the-market/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:30:14 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=180315?d=20260427092001EDT Posted by Christine Chow, Andreas Posavac, and Alexander Juschus, Embera Partners, on Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Editor's Note:

Christine Chow is an Advisory Council Member and Senior Consultant, AI, Governance and Stewardship; Andreas Posavac is a Managing Partner and Founding Member; and Alexander Juschus is a Senior Executive, Corporate Governance, at Embera Partners. This post is based on an Embera Partners report by Ms. Chow, Mr. Posavac, Mr. Juschus, and Catherine Marchewitz.

If you have spent any time dealing with collaborative engagement campaigns across borders, you will know the feeling: a room full of like-minded investors, a shared concern about a company’s governance or climate trajectory, and then a question brings tension to the room — “Could we be seen as acting in concert?”

For stewardship professionals and portfolio managers, that question has long been the invisible constraint on one of the most effective tools in engagement. The logic of collaboration is sound: individual engagement with a large corporation often has limited impact for minority shareholders. Collaboration amplifies voice, shares costs, and produces more constructive dialogue with boards. For corporate issuers, facing a collective is even more daunting than dealing with individual investors — it increases pressure, attention, and often media scrutiny.

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