Cross-Border Mergers: EU Perspectives and National Experiences

✍ Scribed by Thomas Papadopoulos

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 511
• Series: Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation 17
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume focuses on specific, crucially important structural measures that foster corporate change, namely cross-border mergers. Such cross-border transactions play a key role in business reality, economic theory and corporate, financial and capital markets law. Since the adoption of the Cross-border Mergers Directive, these mergers have been regulated by specific legal provisions in EU member states. This book analyzes various aspects of the directive, closely examining this harmonized area of EU company law and critically evaluating cross-border mergers as a method of corporate restructuring in order to gain insights into their fundamental mechanisms. It comprehensively discusses the practicalities of EU harmonization of cross-border mergers, linking it to corporate restructuring in general, while also taking the transposition of the directive into account. Exploring specific angles of the Cross-border Mergers Directive in the light of European and national company law, the book is divided into three sections: the first section focuses on EU and comparative aspects of the Cross-border Mergers Directive, while the second examines the interaction of the directive with other areas of law (capital markets law, competition law, employment law, tax law, civil procedure). Lastly, the third section describes the various member states’ experiences of implementing the Cross-border Mergers Directive.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Reviewing the Implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive (Thomas Papadopoulos)....Pages 3-34
An Empirical Research on Cross-Border Mergers at EU Level (Thomas Biermeyer, Marcus Meyer)....Pages 35-51
Cross-Border Mergers and Reincorporations in the EU: An Essay on the Uncertain Features of Companies’ Mobility (Federico M. Mucciarelli)....Pages 53-64
Appraisal Rights in the US and the EU (Alexandros Seretakis)....Pages 65-80
Shareholders’ Derivative Suits Against Corporate Directors, Following Cross-Border Mergers: A Functioning Remedy Within the EU? (Georgios Zouridakis)....Pages 81-99
Front Matter ....Pages 101-101
Disclosure of Inside Information in Cross-Border Mergers (Vassilios D. Tountopoulos)....Pages 103-129
Cross-Border Mergers and Cross-Border Takeovers Compared (Matteo Gargantini)....Pages 131-158
The Relationship Between Article 4(1)(b) of the Cross-Border Merger Directive and the European Merger Regulation (Marco Corradi, Julian Nowag)....Pages 159-174
Unions’ Freedom to Establish and Provide Services (Ewan McGaughey)....Pages 175-191
Tax Mergers Directive: Basic Conceptualisation (Georgios Matsos)....Pages 193-208
Procedural Harmonisation in Cross-Border Mergers (Michael Kyriakides, Fryni Fournari)....Pages 209-222
Front Matter ....Pages 223-223
Experiences from the Implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Austria (Georg Gutfleisch)....Pages 225-244
Experiences from the Implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Cyprus (Thomas Papadopoulos)....Pages 245-274
Cross-Border Mergers: The Danish Experience (Hanne S. Birkmose)....Pages 275-293
Cross-Border Mergers in France (Bénédicte François)....Pages 295-324
The Implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive (2005/56/EC) in Germany: A Story of Insufficiencies and (Better) Alternatives (Sebastian Mock)....Pages 325-341
Experiences from the Implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Greece (Thomas Papadopoulos)....Pages 343-377
The Implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Italy: An Overview with a Critical Assessment of Dissenting Shareholders’ Appraisal (Sergio Gilotta)....Pages 379-399
The Implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Luxembourg (Isabelle Corbisier)....Pages 401-409
Implementation of the Cross-Border Merger Directive in the Netherlands (M. A. Verbrugh)....Pages 411-424
Cross-Border Mergers: Experiences from Poland (Ariel Mucha, Arkadiusz Radwan)....Pages 425-441
The Mutual Influence Between Cross-Border Merger and Common Merger Regimes in Spanish Law (Alfonso Martínez-Echevarría)....Pages 443-475
Cross-Border Mergers Directive and Its Impact in the UK (Jonathan Mukwiri)....Pages 477-503

✦ Subjects

Law; European Law; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; European Integration; Business Law