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The Protection of Creditors of a European Private Company (SPE)

Siems, Mathias; Herzog, Leif; Rosenhäger, Erik - 2011

Soon we can expect a new type of company: the European Private Company (Societas Privata Europaea – SPE) aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises in the EU. In this article, we analyse how creditors of future SPEs will be protected. In the first part, we identify on a general level how...

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Regulatory Competition in Partnership Law

Siems, Mathias - 2009

Regulatory competition in company law has been extensively debated in the last few decades, but it has rarely been discussed whether there could also be regulatory competition in partnership law. This article fills this gap. It addresses the partnership law of the US, the UK, Germany, and...

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The 2007 Reform of the German Disclosure System for Company Data (Die neue Unternehmenspublizität nach EHUG und TUG)

Noack, Ulrich - 2007

German law requires both private and public companies to disclose a far-ranging set of information to shareholders, creditors, other market participants and the public. The information that must be disclosed under these rules is more extensive in scale and scope than those provided by data...

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Solvency Tests, Debt Capacity, and Security Design

Heaton, J.B - 2022

borrowing. I motivate this assumption in two ways. First, the state of insolvency effectively shifts fiduciary duties to …. Second, the state of insolvency subjects the firm’s decisions to fraudulent transfer laws that also effectively limit the …

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ICO Market Report 2019/2020 – Performance Analysis of 2019's Initial Coin Offerings

Haffke, Lars; Fromberger, Mathias - 2021

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are still one of the most fashionable topics in the area of financial markets. For token issuers, they are a continuing to be a success story. In 2019 alone, more than $ 3,3 billion USD have been raised in ICOs. From the investors’ perspective, however, things do...

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U.S. Corporate Accountability in the ESG Era

Prestipino, Gilda Sophie - 2023

The focus of corporate governance on Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) issues has grown exponentially in recent years. The phenomenon has a global nature, and the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the demand for corporate leaders to take ESG seriously. In the United States,...

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Law and Finance : What Matters? Hong Kong as a Test Case

Yeung, Horace W.H; Huang, Flora - 2013

This paper, using Hong Kong as a test case, challenges one conventional theory and confirms another one in law and …

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A New Discourse Theory of the Firm After Citizens United

Siebecker, Michael R. - 2010

Could a new “discourse theory” of the firm provide a better way than existing corporate law principles to understand … accurate theory of the corporation capable of accommodating such a change. But why is a new discourse theory necessary to …. Not only does a new discourse theory of the firm accurately attend to the evolving nature of the corporation, but it …

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A Leximetric Approach to Comparative Corporate Governance : The Case of Hedge Fund Activism

Katelouzou, Dionysia - 2015

This article shows how leximetric coding techniques, combined with econometric analysis, can be used to examine similarities and differences across a large number of different legal systems, and to address the question of the extent to which the ‘law matters'. The focus is on the...

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Shareholder Protection around the World ("Leximetric II")

Siems, Mathias - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2007

This article analyzes how shareholder protection has developed in 20 countries from 1995 to 2005. In contrast to traditional legal research, it draws on a quanti-tative methodology to law ("leximetrics", "numerical comparative law"). Some of its results are that in most countries shareholder...

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