After ten years, the European Insolvency Regulation (EIR, Council Regulation n. 1346/2000) is going to be reformed. The Proposal of Reform (2012), as amended by the European Parliament (2014), approaches to the problem of the identification of the debtor's Centre of Main Interests (COMI),...

The derivative action exerted by shareholders (rectius, by a single shareholder or by a minority of them) falls within the wider topic of the defence of shareholder minorities. Considered as one of the pillars of corporate governance, the above mentioned subject tends to be a control tool as to...