Julian Franks

British finance scholar of ownership, control, insolvency, and shareholder activism

ownership and controlshareholder activismcorporate insolvency

Official Source Note

London Business School identifies Franks as Emeritus Professor of Finance and describes his research on bankruptcy and financial distress, corporate ownership and control, shareholder activism, the cost of capital, and regulation.

Franks is included because his comparative and historical evidence reveals how ownership, insolvency, investor engagement, and regulation jointly shape the development of European corporate-governance systems.

Source: London Business School

Relevance to the Archive

Franks strengthens the archive's comparative evidence on concentrated ownership, insolvency design, activist stewardship, and the historical development of corporate control in the United Kingdom and continental Europe.

Representative Contributions

Ownership and Control of German Corporations (with Colin Mayer, 2001)
Ownership: Evolution and Regulation (with Colin Mayer and Stefano Rossi, 2009)
Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes UK Focus Fund (with Marco Becht, Colin Mayer, and Stefano Rossi, 2009)