On 23 February, the Commission published a proposal for a directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence. The Commission’s draft for the Directive raises several issues. Here, we will provide some initial comments regarding some of the material problems raised by Article 15 of the draft,...

The Study on Directors’ Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance (hereinafter ‘The Study’) was published on 30 July 2020 and is accompanied by a Commission Inception Impact Assessment and a consultation deadline of 8 October 2020. The Assessment adds very little to the Study and this...

In this article it is argued that the Danish submission deadlines for annual reports that branches of foreign capital companies and subsidiaries are subject to, are contrary to EU Law. The Danish time limits for submission of annual reports, in conjunction with submission deadlines in other EU...

The purpose of this contribution is to look into what should be considered when forming rules about branch managers. An additional purpose is to analyze how the branch manager’s duties and responsibilities are regulated in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish branches of foreign companies, and this...

The article begins with a historical view on the legal development of minimum capital requirements for the private limited companies in Europe. An introduction to the historically very different approaches in Germany and England is given, and it is shown that the international trend moves...