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Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Hostile Bids Regime in Europe, 2004-2023

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How Does Board-Shareholder Engagement Really Work?

28 November 2022

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Giovanni Strampelli

The Extraterritorial Impact of the Proposed EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence: Why Corporate America Should Pay Attention

On 23 February 2022 the European Commission issued its long-awaited proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (the Proposed Directive). Under the Proposed Directive, large companies operating in...

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Can a Broader Corporate Purpose Redress Inequality? The Stakeholder Approach Chimera

Well before the Covid-19 pandemic, policymakers and scholars were focused on the debate over corporate purpose and the fragility of an economic system marked by stagnation and runaway inequality. As...

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Chrystin Ondersma

Can Companies and M&A Law in Europe Adapt to the Market for Corporate Control?

Takeover regimes in Europe have been under persistent scrutiny by the public, politicians, and market participants. Sometimes, that is just the nature of the game: Takeovers create winners and losers,...

14 November 2018

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The Case for Speeding the Merger Process

Corporate planners and practitioners know well that it takes quite a long time to close a long-form merger, with the shareholder approval requirement accounting for the bulk of the delay...

18 October 2017

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The Vulnerability of European Companies to Creeping Acquisitions: One Recent Example from Italy

Creeping acquisitions, the surreptitious building of a very large position in a public company with neither the consent of the target, nor the prior launch of a tender offer, are...

23 December 2016

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