This text contains the general report for the XVIIIth Congress on Comparative Law to be held in Washington DC. It gives a comparative overview of the three types of funds to be discussed, and some of the problems that have been raised about them. On hedge funds, the analysis indicates that most...

The relationship between corporate governance and financial stability is an intermediate one. Firms have no obligation to take financial stability into account except when the law or the applicable regulation imposes it. In several fields this is the case: regulation of auditors or credit rating...

Standardisation techniques are used in a very broad range of financial transactions: technical standards, model contracts, codes of conduct, accounting rules, and even experiments with alternatives to European regulations. Especially in the financial services field, where mass production and...

The present paper gives a systematic overview of the takeover regulation as applicable in Belgium after the implementation of the Takeover directive. It contains a high level description of the main provisions of the new law of April 1, 2007, and the Royal Decree of 27 April, 2007, implementing...

The relationship between corporate governance codes and the legal order in which they function is a complex one. This paper aims at analysing this relationship on the one hand by describing the factual situation in which the codes have been developed, and on the other the enforcement and...

After a short historical reminder, the paper states that corporate mobility remains a real political issue. To clarify matters it proposes to distinguish between a formal seat transfer, being the choice for a different legal regime, and a de facto seat change that would not affect the applicable...