1 Setting the Scene – Sources and Overview
1.1 What are the main corporate entities to be
discussed?
This chapter focuses on the corporate governance framework of an
Irish public limited company whose equity securities are listed on
a stock exchange. In particular, it focuses on companies with a
stock exchange listing on a main securities market in the EU (also
known as a regulated market). The regulated market in Ireland is
Euronext Dublin and the secondary market, to which a less stringent
corporate governance regime applies, is Euronext Growth Dublin.
This chapter also briefly considers the corporate governance
framework applicable to:
- companies with a secondary market stock exchange listing or a
listing outside the EU, particularly in the US (on NYSE or NASDAQ)
given that a number of US listed issuers have restructured into an
Irish public company in recent years; and
