This paper contrasts the recent European initiatives on regulating corporate groups with alternative approaches to the phenomenon. In doing so it pays particular regard to the German codified law on corporate groups as the polar opposite to the piecemeal approach favored by E.U. legislation. It...

Controlling shareholders possess private information on a firm's future profitability, which can be used to take the company private at the most favorable time. Using a novel data set of 429 European companies that went private over the period 1997–2005 but continued operating as standalone...

Corporate law increasingly paid attention to the disclosure and publication of information on the governance and ownership of joint-stock corporations. This paper on the one hand gives an overview of mandatory disclosure and publication requirements for joint-stock companies in the corporate...