This article applies network economics to a particular aspect of the statute of the Societas Europaea (SE). The statute allows companies that decide to use the SE form to choose between a two-tier organisational structure (supervisory organ and management organ) and a one-tier organisational...

This article provides an overview of freedom of establishment and developments in the European market for corporate charters twenty years after the ECJ's important Centros decision of March 1999. Both for initial incorporations and reincorporations, ECJ case law has emerged as a key driver in...

Before deciding on operations involving share issuance or sale, companies or shareholders may seek to disclose information to selected investors, in order to gauge their opinion on the envisaged market operation. Such ‘market soundings' risk violating the prohibition of insider trading and yet...