Book | 1st edition 2023 | Belgium | Arie Van Hoe, Tom Vos
The book explores the present and future of shareholder activism in Belgium. Old and new forms of activism will be presented and situated in their financial and legal context. This will help readers understand whether shareholder activism can be a boon or a curse for sustainable value creation.
A comparative analysis of selected (non-)functional approaches
Book | 1st edition 2023 | Belgium, Europe | Inge Van de Plas
This doctoral research compares the retention of title in Belgium with the retention of title in the United States, Germany and two international instruments (the UNCITRAL legislative guide and model law on secured transactions and Book IX of the Draft Common Frame of Reference. It evaluates the application of the functional approach to retention of title and formulates recommendations concerning the regulation of retention of title in Belgian law.
Book | 1st edition 2023 | World | Anne Sanders, Steen Thomsen
Many large companies - like Bosch, Ikea and Novo-Nordisk - are owned by enterprise foundations. This book provides an overview of enterprise foundation law in six European countries and the US. The book explores enterprise foundation law in the seven aforementioned nations and analyzes how the law influences the prevalence and governance of enterprise foundations around the world.
Book | 4th edition 2021 | Belgium | Dirk Deschrijver, Marc Taeymans, Olivier Vanden Berghe
This reference book brings together a number of contracts that are governed by Belgian law but drafted in English. Each model is preceded by a short introduction summarizing the most salient provisions of Belgian law relevant to that particular contract Also, in most models, different options and alternative wording are included.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | Europe | Beate Gsell, Thomas Möllers
This book critically analyses the various approaches of public and private law enforcement and their effectiveness across several jurisdictions on the example of one topical and global collective damage event with far reaching consequences for both, consumers and investors: the Dieselgate.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | Europe | Gemma Fajardo-García, Antonio Fici, Hagen Henrÿ, David Hiez, Deolinda A. Meira, Hans-H. Muenker, Ian Snaith
The Principles of European Cooperative Law (PECOL) focus on the ‘ideal’ legal identity of cooperatives. Drafted by a team of legal scholars, the PECOL aim to describe the common core of European cooperative law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Guang Shen
This book examines the regulation of the inter-provincial establishment of companies in China and the EU regulation of the cross-border establishment of companies from the perspective of comparative law and economics.
This rise of a particular kind of European Union legislation known as the ‘optional instrument’ is a novel trend in the context of EU law, and one that until now has not been comprehensively mapped or explored. This study examines and discusses existing and proposed EU Optional Instruments (OIs) in different fields of European law, including company law, intellectual property law and procedural law (such as the European Company, the Community Trade Mark and the European Small Claims Procedure, respectively), as well as contract law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Caroline Cauffman, Jan Smits
In numerous fields of law, ranging from family law to company law, private actors increasingly set their own rules, revert to private enforcement of those rules and choose the applicable law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Bart Bellen
This book analyses share purchase agreements governed by Belgian law used for company acquisitions, whereby a purchaser acquires control over a Belgian target company through the acquisition of a controlling shareholding.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Max Gaber
Risk taking in business contributes towards innovation while excessive risk taking is associated with corporate failure. This book illustrates how insurance against personal liability of the manager threatens – but also benefits – society and the economy
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Miroslawa Myszke-Nowakowska
This book responds to the current intriguing questions concerning the impact of the choice of law rules on the free movement of companies by analyzing the most recent ECJ decisions, EU legislature and doctrine in that field. It addresses vigorous discussions and a multitude of legal issues concerning European Company Law, Comparative Law as well as Private International Law in a desirable way both for the legal practitioners and academics.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Matteo Solinas
This is a book on comparative law and legal change. With a focus on corporate law and the law of personal property, it reviews the current state of the comparative debate on the evolution of law and seeks to establish new perspectives to explain the mechanism of legal reception.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Marc De Vos, Philippe Culliford
Gender quotas for company boards are becoming a totemic issue of gender diversity policy in today’s labour market. This book analyses the EU proposal to make such quotas obligatory and brings together the experiences of countries that have, to various degrees, taken the road towards formalising gender balance in the board room.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Marco Loos, Marco B.M. Loos, Ilse Samoy
Differences in contract law and the additional transaction costs and complexity they generate in cross-border transactions dissuade a considerable number SMEs from expanding into markets of other Member States. These differences are also said to limit competition in the internal market.
Book | 2nd edition 2011 | Europe | Stefan Grundmann
Over the last decade, European company law has been re-written completely. Virtually no EU measure remained unchanged and most of them have undergone fundamental reform. This book discusses the EC/EU law first including all instruments through which it is transposed into the national law systems. However, where no EC/EU law exists, a comparative law discussion and policy aspects, namely law and economics, fill the gaps. The whole organism of (limited liability) company law is thus covered.