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  • Business Law and the Net Zero Economy
07 Jul 2021
7 min to read

Sustainability and Corporate Stakeholders

Martin Gelter

Following up on Brett McDonnell, Hari Osofsky, Jacqueline Peel and Anita Foerster’s thoughtful paper and recent OBLB contribution, this post highlights a number of issues it raises for corporate...

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  • Corporate Governance
21 May 2021
3 min to read

Letting Companies Choose between Board Models: An Empirical Analysis of Country Variations

Martin Gelter | Mathias Siems

Many private companies are simply managed by a single person. Yet, for public companies (joint-stock companies), having a suitable board structure is a key aspect of corporate governance. But how...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
03 Dec 2020
5 min to read

Research Handbook on Comparative Corporate Governance

Afra Afsharipour | Martin Gelter

Comparative corporate governance has become a broad research field during the past decades. With the increasing internationalization of law and legal scholarship, the subject has seen a burgeoning...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
27 Nov 2019
3 min to read

Addressing the Auditor Independence Puzzle: Regulatory Models and Proposal for Reform

Martin Gelter | Aurelio Gurrea Martínez

Auditors play a major role in corporate governance and capital markets. Ex ante, auditors facilitate firms’ access to finance by creating trust from public investors. Ex post, auditors can prevent...

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  • Commercial Law
  • M&A
26 Nov 2019
4 min to read

Abuse of Companies through Choice of Incorporation?

Martin Gelter | Lécia Vicente

Can the choice of place of incorporation constitute an abuse of the corporate form? The case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is telling for it spells out the Court’s...

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  • Corporate Governance
10 Sep 2019
4 min to read

Centros@20 Series: Centros and Defensive Regulatory Competition

Martin Gelter

Centros and the cases following it had a profound transformational effect on European company law. While it has so far not resulted in fully-fledged regulatory competition for publicly traded...

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  • Brexit
24 Oct 2017

EU Law with the UK - EU Law without the UK

Martin Gelter

Since the UK electorate voted to leave the European Union on June 23, 2016, legal scholars and practitioners have intensely discussed the institutional and constitutional consequences of ‘Brexit’,...
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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
26 Jun 2017

EU Company Law Harmonization between Convergence and Varieties of Capitalism

Martin Gelter

I recently posted my work EU Company Law Harmonization between Convergence and Varieties of Capitalism (forthcoming in the Research Handbook on the History of Corporation and Company Law, edited by...

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  • Corporate Governance
03 Aug 2016

Employee Participation in Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility

Martin Gelter

My forthcoming book chapter, Employee Participation in Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility, which I recently posted on SSRN, looks at the interaction of employee participation...

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