englischDo the fundamental freedoms oblige EU member states to treat comparable foreign situations equally or may a member state differentiate between goods, persons, services or capital of various other states? Ponti approaches this question of a "European most favoured nation treatment", which is [...]

englischWirecard, Adler & Co.: The emergence of short selling attacks has led to a lively discussion about their legal permissibility under the Market Abuse Regime. The thesis addresses the exciting question under which conditions the phenomenon of activist short sellers is to be classified as [...]

englischThis work is a scientific study of the legal regulations governing the calculation of the insolvency administrator's remuneration. Taking into account all decisions of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) since 2000 and the relevant commentaries and journal articles, the law on remuneration is [...]

englischCan a company reside? With this question the debate about the so-called attributed personal housing need began. It is questionable whether the housing need of a partner can be attributed to the company, so that the company can terminate the lease. This problem is however generalizable for [...]

englischThe paper "Liability in the partnership with limited professional liability - with special consideration of recourse issues" deals with the German partnership with limited professional liability (PartGmbB), a company form only for freelancers, in which the limitation of liability is based on [...]

englischThe question of the admissibility of legal entities as insolvency administrators in German proceedings is confirmed by the author. The entry point for the investigation was the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of the exclusion of legal entities as [...]

englischBoard directors’ liability is rarely a one-man show, but rather an ensemble with members of the corporation’s supervisory board and its employees. The author discusses how this interaction is to be arranged harmoniously and raises questions of their joint liability that have barely been [...]

englischThe European Company (SE) is characterised by negotiable co-determination, which makes it attractive from the point of view of German companies in particular, despite incomplete legal regulations. However, the law assigns the negotiations on co-determination on the part of the companies [...]

englischShare pledges are of eminent practical importance as credit security. If companies whose shares have been pledged are merged, in principle the German Transformation Act (UmwG) provides for the protection of the pledges by way of real subrogation. In numerous constellations, however, it is [...]

englischThis thesis will appeal to those in both academia and the business world. It deals with the question of whether, after a business transfer in terms of § 613a of the German Civil Code (BGB), the parties in labour contracts are bound by amendments to the collective agreements established in [...]