The paper provides an overview of the status of corporate and financial law making in Germany in 2007 and examines the driving forces behind current reforms. It also considers amendments to tax and accounting law that are related to corporate and financial law. The authors provide brief comments...

Notwithstanding one decade of corporate law reform during which the German legislature augmented the traditional explicit system of corporate control with market-based corporate governance devices, the German corporate governance reform law agenda is still packed. The paper provides an overview...

This paper shows that current corporate and securities law requires issuers, depository banks and shareholders to interact in order to enable the exercise of shareholder rights. Modern corporate law must be interpreted as three-party, rather than two-party relationship. Accepting the triangle of...

This paper in German language examines the impact of the internet on shareholder meetings. The author describes the steps that the German legislature has been taken towards a shareholder meeting that is based primarily on the internet, rather than the personal attendance of shareholders (as in...