englischThe study examines the material scope of the shareholder´s voting prohibitions and compares sec 47 (4) GmbHG with the shareholder´s duty to abstain from voting in closed corporations in France, Great Britain, Austria and Spain. Following that, the author concentrates on the controversial [...]

englischCan the long-awaited Company Law Package fulfill the high expectations and the need for legal certainty for the cross-border conversion? The aim of this dissertation is to examine the Company Law Package in detail by analyzing European and German case law and taking into account the (still) [...]

englischIs the German Competition Act applicable to public authority economic action governed by public law? This work approaches the issue – due to greatly varying prices and § 185 (1) sentence 2 GWB – based on the abuse control of drinking water charges levied by a public law entity. It analyzes [...]

englischProxy Advisors are taking a more and more leading role in the daily common practice of Corporate Governance, providing shareholders with recommendations on how to vote in general meetings of listed companies. Not directly covered by law so far, the Second EU-Shareholders Directive of May [...]

englischThis work deals with one of the central questions with regard to the application of competition law to markets of the internet economy: To what extent can the prohibition of the abuse of market power according to Art. 102 TFEU be applied to innovative markets like the internet search engine [...]

englischThe Rozenblum doctrine is not an antiquated legal institution from the last century, but continues to be of great importance as a model at European and national level. This has led to a detailed examination of the original form and development of the institution. The aim of the work is to [...]

englischThe book analyses a commonly used line of argument, known as “infringement of shareholder rights”. Courts and legal literature try to derive specific, unwritten legal consequences from an infringement of shareholder rights, such as, for example, the material control of the general assembly’s [...]

englischEuropean state aid law regulates the lawfulness of aid given by EU Member States which favours certain undertakings, whereas procurement law, which is based on the fundamental freedoms of the Treaty of Rome, contains rules about public tendering. Due to the broad definition of state aid, [...]

englischThis volume is the first to monographically analyse questions of corporate and intellectual property law in the context of research institution cooperations de lege lata and de lege ferenda. Based on an analysis of frequently used sample, the author attempts to solve practical drafting [...]

englischThe audit committee of public interest entities performs a public function through its auditing of financial reporting, which can be broadly broken down into three facets: (i) its role of relieving the burden on the state by supplementing or replacing government supervision, (ii) its role as [...]