Since 1873 Gore-Browne on Companies has kept its readers informed about UK Company Law. Now, let Gore-Browne on EU Company Law inform you about what EU Company Legislation has been implemented, what is coming, and what is still being debated.

Gore-Browne on EU Company Law offers invaluable commentary on the implementation and purpose of European Directives. It includes essential coverage on:

• Joint Ventures and how they are increasingly being used as the corporate vehicle of choice by two or more Member States
• Expanded coverage of European Tax Law, including detailed analysis of the key European Court rulings on Member States' direct taxes
• Comprehensive analysis of the adoption of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency and its implications for the EU
• Detailed examination of the impact of the EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings 2000 on corporate rescue across the UK and other Member States
• Corporate social responsibility
• Companies and the conflicts of law

EU Directives governing the regulation of companies have had profound effects on how businesses operate throughout Europe. In the UK, for example, the European Company (SE), money laundering legislation and developments in cross-border insolvency have all resulted from EU initiatives.

Setting up, running and dissolving a business is never easy wherever the jurisdiction, but for EU Member States, it is complicated by the effects of EU Directives on their own law and practice. These Directives are designed to harmonise what are often complicated rules concerning company structure and accounts as well as the issues of securities, tax and insolvency.

Gore-Browne on EU Company Law explains the impact of these Directives on company law, taxation, accounting and insolvency. It examines and monitors the implementation provisions in the UK and looks forward to forthcoming developments.

In one loose-leaf volume it contains the fully amended text of all the European Directives together with invaluable commentary on the implementation and purpose of each Directive.

Gore-Browne on EU Company Law offers a uniquely wide-ranging and authoritative approach making it the definitive reference on this increasingly important subject. It contains:

• invaluable commentary on the implementation and purpose of each Directive
• analysis on how implemented legislation has been working in practice
• practical explanations of how other EU legislation on issues such as merger regulation can also influence member state company law
• the fully amended text of the key EU Directives
• text of other EU Regulations and EU Guidance materials

An invaluable guide for solicitors, barristers and accountants, and anybody working in or researching corporate law.

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GENERAL EDITOR

Dr Carsten Gerner-Beuerle, Assessor iur, LLM, PhD, Lecturer in Corporate Law, London School of Economics and Political Science

CONSULTING EDITOR

Stuart Fleet, Partner, Kaye Scholer, London

CONTRIBUTORS

Hussein Barma, Chief Financial Officer, Antofagasta plc
Marios Koutsias, Lecturer in EU Commercial Law, University of Essex
Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen,University of Manchester
Gerard McCormack, Professor of International Business Law, University of Leeds
Dr Christiana Panayi, Lecturer in Tax Law, Centre of Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
Michael Schillig,Lecturer in International Commercial and Financial Law, School of Law, King's College London
Peter Stone, Professor of Law, University of Essex
Owen D Watkins, Consultant, Lewis Silkin, London

• Introduction and core company law provisions
• Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility
• Conflicts of law
• Employee issues
• Corporate forms
• European company statute
• Cross border mergers and merger regulation
• Takeovers
• Market abuse
• Money laundering
• Financial services and securities regulation
• Taxation
• Financial reporting and accounting
• Insolvency
• Transactions
• Joint ventures
• Proposed draft directives

Update 41 (March 2011) 

The following chapters have been amended for this Update:

Chapter 2 Core Company Law Provisions: The First and Second Directives

Chapter 5 Acquired Rights Directive

Chapter 9 European Company Statute

Chapter 10 European Merger Regulation

Chapter 13 Market Abuse

Chapter 15 Transparency

Chapter 18 European Tax Law: Legislation and Political Initiatives

Chapter 19 EU Tax Law and Companies: Principles of the Court of Justice

Chapter 22 The European Insolvency Regulation

Update 41 includes a variety of amendments ranging from discussion of new cases at European level to proposals for new Directives.

Chapters 2, 5, 9, 10, 13, 15, 18, 19 and 22 have been updated.

Chapter 2 comments on the proposal for a new Directive regarding the interconnection of central, commercial and companies registers.

Chapter 9 has received some routine changes and Chapter 10 includes some new cases under the Regulation, including SC Johnson/Sara Lee and T-Mobile/Orange.

Chapter 13 discusses the planned reforms by the European Commission to create a new Regulation on insider dealing and market manipulation, and a new Directive on criminal sanctions for insider dealing and market manipulation.

Further Commission reform is discussed in Chapter 15 following the public consultation on modernising the Transparency Directive.

Chapter 18 has undergone some routine updating, particularly in relation to the Parent/Subsidiary Directive, and includes detailed comment on the Foggia case in relation to the anti-abuse provision in the Merger Directive.

Chapter 19 has also had some routine updating and, among others, includes discussion on how the Commission proposes to address problems. It also looks at some new decisions concerning Germany and Portugal and the treatment of dividends.

Chapter 22 includes yet more discursive analysis of the Regulation and new 2011 cases concerning the relationship between the EU Insolvency Regulation and the EU Jurisdiction and Judgments Regulation, and the bankruptcy exception in the Regulation. The expansion of the jurisdiction of the European Court is examined in reference to the Virgos-Schmit Report.

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