This paper constitutes the European Company Law Experts' response to the European Commission's Green Paper “The EU Corporate Governance Framework”. The paper contains responses to the individual questions put forward by the Commission as well as an introductory statement. In this statement...

This article considers the regulation “on the books” of executive pay across the EU and the evidence “in action” on corporate practice concerning executive pay (based on disclosures by FTSE Eurofirst 300 companies) in relation to the best practice recommendations set out in two key...

In this paper, I tackle the question whether one share - one vote should become a European law rule. I examine, first of all, the economic theory concerning one share - one vote and its optimality, and the law and economics literature on dual class recapitalizations and other deviations from one...

This is the first chapter in a volume on “Boards and Shareholders in European Listed Companies: Facts, Context and Post-Crisis Reforms” (M. Belcredi and G. Ferrarini eds., Cambridge University Press forthcoming 2013). We offer an overview of the volume, placing the same in the context of...

This paper contains the European Company Law Experts' response to one of the main issues raised in the European Commission's Action Plan of 12 December 2012, namely how to make corporate governance codes more effective. The concept of “codes' effectiveness” has two meanings: effectiveness of...

PART I: GENERAL ASPECTS -- Chapter 1: Sustainable Finance in Europe: Setting the Scene -- Chapter 2: The European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan and Other International Initiatives -- Chapter 3: Sustainable Digital Finance and the Pursuit of Environmental Sustainability -- PART...