European Corporate Law

The purpose of the European directives on corporate law is to enable businesses to be set up anywhere in the EU, to provide protection for shareholders and other parties with a particular interest in companies, to make business more efficient and competitive, and to encourage businesses based in different EU countries to cooperate with each other. The new commentary on corporate law provides an in-depth expert analysis of all legal issues concerning the setting up and several other main issues covered by EU corporate law. With a view to offering recommendation for practical applications, the book covers, article-by-article, the following European directives:

Directive (EU) 2017/1132 relating to certain aspects of company law

-Safeguards (former Safeguards Directive, 2009/101/EC)

-Disclosure requirements (former Directive concerning disclosure requirements in respect of branches, 89/666/EEC)

-Public limited liability companies (former Directive concerning the formation of public limited liability companies, 2012/30/EU)

-Mergers and Division (former Directives concerning of public limited liability companies, 2005/56/EC and 2011/35/EU)

-Cross Border Mergers (former Directive 82/891/EEC)

Directive concerning single-member private limited liability companies (2009/102/EC)

Directive on Takeover Bids (2004/25/EC)

Shareholder Rights Directive (2007/36/EC)

Directive on the annual financial statements (2013/43 EU) and on statutory audits of annual accounts (2006/43/EC) The Authors: RA Dr. Klaus Bader, Dr. Martin Bialluch, RA Dr. Andreas Börner, RA Dr. Jan P. Brosius, LL.M. (King’s College London), RAin Larissa Furtwengler, David Günther, RA Dr. Simon Jobst, Maître en droit, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Kindler, RA Karsten Kühnle, RA Dr. Michael Lamsa, RA Prof. Dr. Dieter Leuering, Prof. Dr. Jan Lieder, LL.M. (Harvard), RAin Dr. Silja Maul, Prof. Dr. Hanno Merkt, LL.M. (Chicago), RA Dr. Tobias De Raet, Prof. Dr. Alexander Schall, M.Jur. (Oxon). This publication is part of IEBL-series – Commentaries on International and European Business Law: www.iebl.info