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Can the ownership and governance structure of a central bank affect its institutional activities? Who benefits from a central bank’s assets and operating results and how does it impact its...

In my new monograph, Corporate Reorganization Law and Forces of Change (OUP 2020), I argue that it is not possible to adopt a fixed or universal conceptual framework in analysing the many different...

Striving to manage the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the Lithuanian government announced a 3-month quarantine throughout the country on 16 March 2020. This meant severe business restrictions or even a...

Legal scholars have long recognized that corporate persons, just like natural persons, operate as ‘right-and-duty bearing units’ (Friedrich Maitland), serving as a ‘point of imputation’ of legal...

Blockchain applications begin to transform both companies and company law. The respective implications at the intersection of blockchain and company law as well as the potential need for legal reform...

Around the globe, legislatures have become active in providing competition authorities with new tools and resources to curb the market power of Big Tech. Germany is one of the countries at the...

Everybody agrees that a strong policy response to COVID-19 is and will be needed. And everybody agrees that it would be even better if this response could also contribute to solve problems that...

Despite the intense effort of the EU to harmonise company law, significant differences persist across Member States. In a working paper, which is about to be published as a book chapter (Ziegler,...

Corporations that are able to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the most suitable way are not only likely to overcome the current COVID-19 crisis more effectively, but also to succeed in the...

Company law has been increasingly subject to legislation on the EU level in recent years. A recent piece of harmonization efforts in the field of company law is the Shareholders’ Rights Directive II...

In 2002, the European legislature considered that a legal framework to facilitate financial collateral transactions such as repurchase agreements (repos), securities lending and derivatives would ‘...

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the global economy, regulators are struggling to find cost-effective mitigation strategies. The goal of such strategies should be simple: reduce the...

This post summarises the introduction to a book collection on Decentralised Business Models edited by us and published by Routledge UK. This book draws together themes in business model developments...

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) represent about 90% of businesses and more than 50% of employment worldwide. Despite the economic relevance of MSMEs in most countries around the...

Many corporate law scholars watched in amazement as merger litigation exploded over the past fifteen years. In 2005, only 37 percent of mergers involving US public companies with a transaction size...

The political responses to the Covid-19 pandemic present unprecedented and acute challenges for the EU Member States’ financial and economic systems. To cushion the economic consequences of the Covid...

Private meetings between management and investors occur worldwide and are generally held at corporate headquarters with invited investors and sell-side analysts (also known as site visits). Ng and...