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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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