European Corporate Law, 2nd edition

As in the First Edition (1995) of this well-known book, the authors demonstrate that analysis and comparison of national corporate laws on a number of issues yield highly valuable general principles and observations, not least because business organisations, wherever located, tend to show a fundamentally similar set of legal characteristics. To its original selection of six representative jurisdictions - Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom - the Second Edition now adds Poland, thus including an Eastern European perspective to supplement those of continental Europe and the common law system of the UK. The book provides in-depth examination of the implications involved in such issues and trends as the following:

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• acknowledgement by other Member States of the legal status of a company formed in accordance with a particular national law;
• a company's freedom to incorporate in a jurisdiction not its own;
• competition among the legal forms of different Member States;
• safeguarding of employee involvement in cross-border transactions, especially mergers;
• simplified company forms adopted in several jurisdictions;
• creation of new forms of business organisations and step-up varieties of existing company forms; and

developments regarding group law.