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A Survey of Delisting in the United States

31 October 2024

Martin Gelter

Steven Thel

Elective Corporate Governance: Does Board Choice Matter?

17 May 2024

Martin Gelter

Mathias Siems

Sustainability and Corporate Stakeholders

Following up on Brett McDonnell, Hari Osofsky, Jacqueline Peel and Anita Foerster’s thoughtful paper and recent OBLB contribution, this post highlights a number of issues it raises for corporate...

7 July 2021

Martin Gelter

Letting Companies Choose between Board Models: An Empirical Analysis of Country Variations

Many private companies are simply managed by a single person. Yet, for public companies (joint-stock companies), having a suitable board structure is a key aspect of corporate governance. But how...

21 May 2021

Martin Gelter

Mathias Siems

Research Handbook on Comparative Corporate Governance

Comparative corporate governance has become a broad research field during the past decades. With the increasing internationalization of law and legal scholarship, the subject has seen a burgeoning volume of...

3 December 2020

Afra Afsharipour

Martin Gelter

Addressing the Auditor Independence Puzzle: Regulatory Models and Proposal for Reform

Auditors play a major role in corporate governance and capital markets. Ex ante, auditors facilitate firms’ access to finance by creating trust from public investors. Ex post, auditors can prevent...

27 November 2019

Martin Gelter

Aurelio Gurrea Martínez

Abuse of Companies through Choice of Incorporation?

Can the choice of place of incorporation constitute an abuse of the corporate form? The case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is telling for...

26 November 2019

Martin Gelter

Lécia Vicente

Centros@20 Series: Centros and Defensive Regulatory Competition

Centros and the cases following it had a profound transformational effect on European company law. While it has so far not resulted in fully-fledged regulatory competition for publicly...

10 September 2019

Martin Gelter

EU Law with the UK - EU Law without the UK

Since the UK electorate voted to leave the European Union on June 23, 2016, legal scholars and practitioners have intensely discussed the institutional and constitutional consequences of ‘Brexit’, especially the...

24 October 2017

Martin Gelter

EU Company Law Harmonization between Convergence and Varieties of Capitalism

I recently posted my work EU Company Law Harmonization between Convergence and Varieties of Capitalism (forthcoming in the Research Handbook on the History of Corporation and Company Law,...

26 June 2017

Martin Gelter

A Survey of Delisting in the United States

Elective Corporate Governance: Does Board Choice Matter?

Sustainability and Corporate Stakeholders

Letting Companies Choose between Board Models: An Empirical Analysis of Country Variations

Research Handbook on Comparative Corporate Governance

Addressing the Auditor Independence Puzzle: Regulatory Models and Proposal for Reform

Abuse of Companies through Choice of Incorporation?

Centros@20 Series: Centros and Defensive Regulatory Competition

EU Law with the UK - EU Law without the UK

EU Company Law Harmonization between Convergence and Varieties of Capitalism

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