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Visit to Pakistan: Short Course on European Company Law In the week of 16 to 20 May 2016, Professor Schmolke visited the School of Law and Policy (SLP) at the University of Management and Technology (UMT) in Lahore, Pakistan. During his stay Prof. Schmolke taught a short course on European Company ...

The question of whether and when expulsion and valuation clauses in partnership agreements or the articles of close corporations are valid has occupiedGermancourts as well as legal scholars formanydecades. While the courts nowaday stake a rather restrictive stance on the validity and enforceability ...

The European Commission has recently released a Proposal for a Regulation on market abuse, to increase investor confidence and market integrity in European capital markets law. One of its most innovative elements involves allowing Member States to provide finfancial incentives to whistleblowers who ...

The reform of the Transparency Directive is presently on the political agenda, with one of the key questions focussing on the level of harmonisation: Should the current minimum harmonisation be retained or is a move towards full harmonisation advisable? After confirming legal competence for the full...

In its Action Plan "Modernising Company Law and Enhancing Corporate Governance in the European Union - A Plan to Move Forward" of 2003, the European Commission proposed a mandatory disclosure of institutional investors' voting behaviour with regard to their portfolio companies as a medium-term measu...