Fiduciary duties are often today held out as typical instruments of shareholder protection in the common law of both the US and the UK, which are sometimes held out as examples for a consensus model for what is considered good corporate law conducive to good capital market development. However,...

Croatian capital market is, from the beginning of the year 2009, governed by new Capital Market Act that introduces higher level of investor protection, by posing firmer rules on mandatory disclosure for listed companies. Based on the similar trends in comparative law it could be expected that...

Currently trademark bullying has become a serious concern for many small businesses that feel as though powerful corporations are abusing aggressive trademark enforcement and litigation techniques to crush genuine competition. No doubt these concerns merit the serious consideration of all...

The derivative action exerted by shareholders (i.e., by a single shareholder or by a minority of them) is usually activated to assert before the court administrators' managing responsibility. Falling within the wider topic of the defence of shareholder minorities and considered as one of the...

As businesses and other entities have sought to collect more personal data on individuals, the public has pushed back, and lawmakers throughout the United States and elsewhere have responded by passing data protection laws. Recent data protection laws passed by the European Union and by several...

This article discusses the importance of European company law for intra-EU investments after the recent decision of the CJEU in Achmea. In Achmea, the CJEU examined bilateral investment treaties (BITs) concluded between EU Member States in the light of EU law. More specifically, the CJEU...

The development of collective redress in practice depends on the availability of adequate funding. In recent years third-party funding by entrepreneurial parties has become an important source of financing collective actions and settlements. Both at the EU level and in most of the Member States...

The U.S. in the recent United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and U.S.-Japan Digital Trade Agreement adopts a new clause which mirrors Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, shielding online intermediaries from third-party contents liability. For policymakers, the seemingly...

Large businesses are often organized into a complicated web of interrelated corporations. Yet in many areas of U.S. law, jurisdictional and substantive rules focus only on the single entity, creating a mismatch between legal doctrine and the organization of business into corporate groups or...