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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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Centros@20 Series: Conference Report—'Centros and European Company Law: Twenty Years of Living Dangerously'

Alvaro Pereira

March 2019 marked the twentieth anniversary of the landmark Centros case. It was the first of three judgments in which the (then) European Court of Justice (the Court) affirmed companies’ freedom of...

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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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Brexit: Corporate

Herbert Smith Freehills

Whilst the Companies Act 2006 and the raft of secondary legislation made under it have been heavily influenced by various European Directives (notably the Company Law Directives and Accounting...

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Brexit and Corporate Citizenship

John Armour, Faculty of Law

The advent of Brexit has sparked a fierce debate over the implications for the rights of EU citizens living in the UK and UK citizens living in the rest of the EU. So far, however, there has been...

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