The Latin American Corporate Governance Roundtable and Companies Circle

The Latin American Corporate Governance Roundtable was established in April 2000. Roundtable participants come from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and Venezuela.

The Roundtable aims to facilitate public and private sector policy-dialogue by: 

  • providing 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;
  • providing policy and practical input to the Roundtable's work and to promote good corporate governance practivces at the company level, through the Companies Circle group.

 

Publications

  • The Latin American Roundtable Companies Circle 2nd Edition, 2006 [ English / Portuguese / Spanish ] featuring case studies of the experience of 13 leading Latin American companies.

Meetings :

 

 

2-3 December 2008, 9th annual meeting in Mexico City, Mexico

 

This meeting provided an important opportunity to take stock of recent corporate governance-related developments in Latin America, particularly in the wake of the current global financial turmoil.

10-11 October 2007, 8th annual meeting in Medellin, Colombia

The Latin American roundtable on Corporate Governance agreed to develop recommendations to encourage institutional investors to play a more engaged and informed role in promoting better corporate governance in the region.

1 March, 2007, Bovespa's Novo Mercado ceremony 

The OECD and the Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance were recognised as being among the five main institutional supporters. Bovespa was celebrating the 100th company to join the special corporate governance listing segments of the trading board. The 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 that the Novo Mercado was launched.

22 November 2006, 4th meeting of the Latin American Roundtable Companies Circle,  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  

 

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Publication

An evalution of the extent to which the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance have been implemented in Turkey.

Corporate Governance in Turkey: A Pilot Study