Europe

Modern Company and Capital Market Problems: Improving European Corporate Governance after Enron

Do Bankruptcy Codes Matter? A Study of Defaults in France, Germany, and the UK

Regulation of Private Equity - Backed Leveraged Buyout Activity in Europe

Private equity-backed leveraged buyout activity in European markets has risen to unprecedented levels in recent years. This has yielded significant...

The European Private Company (SPE): Uniformity, Flexibility, Competition and the Persistence of National Laws

Comparing Insider Trading in the United States and in the European Union: History and Recent Developments

In the European Union insider trading has been regulated much more recently than in the United States, and it can be argued that, at least traditionally,...

Making the Case for a Rome V Regulation on the Law Applicable to Companies

There is significant legal variation and uncertainty in the conflict of laws rules applicable to companies in the EU. While the case law of the Court of...

The Rise and Fall of the European New Markets: on the Short and Long-run Performance of High-tech Initial Public Offerings

How the Old World Encountered the New One: Regulatory Competition and Cooperation in European Corporate and Bankruptcy Law

The Board of Nonprofit Organizations: Some Corporate Governance Thoughts from Europe

Some reflections on freedom of establishment of non-profit entities in the EU

Restructuring the European Business Enterprise: The EU Commission Recommendation on a New Approach to Business Failure and Insolvency

Two events are currently changing the landscape for business restructurings in the European Union: the “Restructuring Recommendation” (RR) of...

Abuse of Companies Through Choice of Incorporation?

This paper explores the concept of abuse of law in the context of the choice of the state or country of incorporation: Can the choice of a particular...