Virtual AGMs now allowed in most countries

Singapore

COUNTRIES across the globe have scrambled to find alternative ways to conduct shareholders' meetings when the Covid-19 pandemic made face-to-face interactions challenging.

The Singapore Report on Shareholder Meetings: The Rise of Virtual Meetings found that most markets now allow listed companies to hold virtual shareholder meetings; some had already permitted them before the onset of the pandemic, while others decided to keep them as a permanent feature.