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Title

Legal capital in Europe / edited by Marcus Lutter.

Publication

Berlin : De Gruyter Recht, c2006.

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Additional Authors

Lutter, Marcus.

Description

x, 701 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

European company and financial law review. Special volume ; 1

Uniform Title

European company and financial law review. Special volume ; 1.

Subject

• Capital stock > Law and legislation > Europe
• Capital stock > Law and legislation > Germany
• Corporations > Law and legislation > Europe
• Corporations > Law and legislation > Germany

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Legal capital of public companies in Europe : executive summary of considerations by the expert group on "Legal Capital in Europe" / Marcus Lutter -- Elements of creditor protection. Minimum capital in the system of legal capital / Horst Eidenmüller, Barbara Grunewald and Ulrich Noack -- Raising cash and contributions in kind when forming a company and for capital increases / Andreas Pentz and Hans-Joachim Priester and André Scwhanna -- Capital maintenance : the regime of the capital directive versus alternative systems / Rüdiger Veil -- Disguised distributions and capital maintenance in European company law / Holger Fleischer -- Director's duties in the vicinity of insolvency : a comparative analysis with reports from Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden / Susanne Kalss and Nikolaus Adensamer and Janine Oelkers.
• Grounds for insolvency and liability for delays in filing for insolvency proceedings-necessary supplement to capital protection / Karsten Schmidt -- Direct liability of controlling parties (piercing the corporate veil) and related legal constellations / Hanno Merkt and Gerald Spindler -- Directors liability in the member states of the European Union / Tim Drygala -- Directors' disqualification and creditor protection / Heribert Hirte, Tim Lanzius and Sebastian Mock -- Fixed capital under German stock corporation law and its significance for the protection of investors and minority shareholders / Jens Ekkenga and Walter Bayer -- Special rules for shareholder loans : which consequences would arise for shareholder loans if the system of legal capital should be abolished? / Ulrich Huber and Mathias Habersack -- Claw-back rules and creditors' protection / Christoph G. Paulus.
• The future of creditor protection through capital maintenance rules in European company law-an economic perspective / Christoph Kuhner -- Improving creditor protection through IFRS reporting and solvency tests / Bernhard Pellens and Thorsten Sellhorn -- Does contract suffice to protect the creditors of a company and their interests? / Peter Mankowski -- Single country reports. Great Britain. England / Eva Micheler -- Creditor protection through insolvency law in England / Thomas Bachner -- France. Working group on the share capital in Europe : French answers to the questionnaire / Isabelle Urbain-Parléani -- Italy. Legal capital rules in Italian company law and the EU perspective / Massimo Miola -- Netherlands. Capital and capital protection in the Netherlands: a doctrine in flux / Harm-Jan de Kluiver and Stephan F.G. Rammeloo -- Spain. Capital protection in Spanish company law / José Miguel Embid Irujo -- Poland. A report on selected aspects of legal capital under Polish Code of Commercial Companies / Andrzej Kidyba and Stanisław Sołtysiński and Andrzej Szumánski -- USA. Capital requirements in United States corporation law / Richard A. Booth -- Life without legal capital : lessons from American law / Andreas Engert.

ISBN

• 3899493397
• 9783899493399

OCLC

82343544

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Harvard Library