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Company Law and Economic Protectionism: New Challenges to European Integration

By

Ulf Bernitz, Wolf-Georg Ringe
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Oxford University Press

The financial crisis has brought about a revival of state protectionism across the globe. Most Western leaders have made a virtue of big government and state intervention; bail-outs and Sovereign Wealth Funds have been among the first responses to the economic contraction. Company law rules are one of the instruments frequently used to restrict or to discourage integration or to deter foreign investment. Examples of the new protectionism can be seen in a wide range of legislative and regulatory measures, for instance state measures preventing foreign takeovers, ‘golden shares’ or laws on foreign direct investment targeting Sovereign Wealth Funds, mainly from Asia. This book presents research by a number of company law and EU law experts. The chapters cover a broad range of topics, spanning from takeovers/mergers over the one share-one vote debate through to the foreclosure of markets against Sovereign Wealth Funds.

Authors

Ulf Bernitz

Klaus Hopt

Emeritus Professor
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Fellow, Research Member

Crispin Waymouth

Andrea Biondi

Paul Davies

Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law; Senior Research Fellow
University of Oxford
Fellow, Research Member

Emilie van de Walle de Ghelcke

Andrew Johnston

Jesper Lau Hansen

Professor of Company Law and Financial Market Law
University of Copenhagen
Academic Member

Ulf Bernitz

Arad Reisberg

Professor of Corporate Law and Financial and Head of Brunel Law School
Brunel University London
Academic Member

Heike Schweitzer

Katharina Pistor

Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Paul Krüger Andersen

Jennifer Payne

Professor of Corporate Finance Law
Law Faculty, University of Oxford
Research Member, Representative Member

Horst Eidenmüller

Statutory Professor for Commercial Law
University of Oxford
Representative Member, Research Member

Lars Hornuf

Jodie A Kirshner

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