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Cross-border mergers, EU perspectives and national experiences, Thomas Papadopoulos, editor

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Includes bibliographical references

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Cross-border mergers

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Thomas Papadopoulos, editor

Studies in European economic law and regulation, volume 17

EU perspectives and national experiences

"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."--, Back cover

Part I : Cross-boder mergers : EU and comparative perspectives -- Reviewing the implementation of the cross-Border Mergers Directive / Thomas Papadopoulos -- An empirical research on cross-border mergers at EU level / Thomas Biermeyer and Marcus Meyer -- Cross-border mergers and reincorporations in the EU: an essay on the uncertain features of companies' mobility / Federico M. Mucciarelli -- Appraisal rights in the US and the EU / Alexandros Seretakis -- Shareholders' derivative suits against corporate directors, following cross-border mergers: a functioning remedy within the EU? / Georgios Zouridakis -- Part II ; Cross-boder mergers in European company law : analysis in the context of various areas of law -- Disclosure of inside information in cross-border mergers / Vassilios D. Tountopoulos -- Cross-border mergers and cross-border takeovers compared / Matteo Gargantini -- The relationship between Article 4(1)(b) of the Cross-Border Merger Directive and the European Merger Regulation / Marco Corradi and Julian Nowag -- Unions' freedom to establish and provide services / Ewan McGaughey -- Tax Mergers Directive: basic conceptualisation / Georgios Matsos -- Procedural Harmonisation in Cross-Border Mergers / Michael Kyriakides and Fryni Fournari -- Part III : National experiences from the implementation of the Cross-Borders Merger Directive in some member states -- Experiences from the implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Austria / Georg Gutfleisch -- Experiences from the implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Cyprus / Thomas Papadopoulos -- Cross-border mergers: the Danish experience / Hanne S. Birkmose -- Cross-border mergers in France / Bénédicte François -- The implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive (2005/56/EC) in Germany: a story of insufficiencies and (better) alternatives / Sebastian Mock -- Experiences from the implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Greece / Thomas Papadopoulos -- The implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Italy: an overview with a critical assessment of dissenting shareholders' appraisal / Sergio Gilotta -- The implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Luxembourg / Isabelle Corbisier -- Implementation of the Cross-Border Merger Directive in the Netherlands / M. A. Verbrugh -- Cross-border mergers: experiences from Poland / Ariel Mucha and Arkadiusz Radwan -- The mutual influence between cross-border merger and common merger regimes in Spanish law / Alfonso Martínez-Echevarría -- Cross-Border Mergers Directive and Its impact in the UK / Jonathan Mukwiri