“Building Europe’s Venture Capital Market: Contractual Transplants, National Challenges, and the Road to a Pan-E.U. Regime” Event

Bocconi University’s Department of Legal Studies, the DFG LawFin Center at Goethe University in Frankfurt, together with ECGI, are pleased to announce the launch of the workshop series on the law and finance of private equity and venture capital.

The inaugural workshop — held entirely online via Zoom on 4 December (13:30–17:30 CET) — is titled:

“Building Europe’s Venture Capital Market: Contractual Transplants, National Challenges, and the Road to a Pan-E.U. Regime.”

This inaugural workshop will serve as a forum to take stock of the academic and policy debates surrounding the frictions that European corporate laws create when U.S.-style venture capital contracts are transplanted into E.U. member states. It will also explore how the European Commission’s proposed pan-European corporate-law “28th regime” seeks to address the resulting dysfunctions.

The programme brings together scholars and policymakers for focused analysis and discussion. Three research papers will be presented and debated, followed by a policymaking-oriented roundtable featuring participants from E.U. institutions, academia, and the European venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Following this inaugural event, upcoming workshops will broaden the comparative perspective by focusing on “U.S. Venture Capital Contracting Goes Global: Perspectives from Asia and Latin America” (early 2026) and “Legal Culture and Private Ordering: What Can VC Contracting Teach Us?” (later in 2026). The series aims to chart how VC contracting practices travel across jurisdictions and to deepen our understanding of how formal law and informal norms jointly shape a foundational pillar of modern innovation finance.

Registration is required here.

Further information is available here and here.

For queries, please contact research@lawfin.uni-frankfurt.de.