The European Company and Financial Law Review (ECFR) hosts the Third ECFR Symposium, Shareholder Suits. It will take place in Vienna on Friday, October 10, 2008.
Hamburg and Vienna,
April 17, 2008
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the editors of the European Company and Financial Law Review (ECFR), the editors of the Gesellschafter (Linde Verlag) and the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, I would kindly like to invite you to the Third ECFR Symposium, which will take place in Vienna on Friday, October 10 on Shareholder Suits.The ECFR Conference is organised in cooperation with the Gesellschafter (GesRZ) and will be held in the Reitersaal of the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, Strauchgasse, 1010 Wien (just across from the Hof Square). The Conference will be held in English.
On the basis of talks by both academics and practitioners, our conference schedule will visit the following topics:
Opening remarks – Peter Doralt (Professor emeritus, Wirtschaftsuniversität, Vienna, Head of the Austrian Takeover Commission)
Heribert Hirte – (Professor, University of Hamburg)
Morning Session
President: Guido Ferrarini (Professor, University of Genoa, Italy)
Shareholders suits against the management of a company and against other shareholders in French Law (abuse by minority or majority of shareholders, enforcement of shareholders’ agreement)
(Bernard Grelon, Professor, University of Paris IX Dauphine, Member of the Paris bar, UGGC Law firm)
Derivative Claims and Corporate Governance: Some reflections on the UK Companies Act 2006 and a New Proposed Model (Arad Reisberg, D.Phil (Oxon), Director, UCL Centre for Commercial Law and Lecturer Faculty of Laws, University College, London)
Theoretical considerations on & practical responses to investor suits (Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Professor of Law and Management (Faculty of Law, Tilburg University), Professor of Financial Market Regulation (Tilburg Law and Economics Center) and Vice President Philips Corporate Legal Department (Corporate and Financial Law Group) Philipps N.V., Eindhoven, Netherlands)
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Shareholder Suits in Spain
(Manuel Sanchez Alvarez, Professor (University of Las Palmas, Spain), Lawyer (Garrigues, Abogados y Asesores Tributarios), Judge, on leave)
Problematic Legal Transplants: Shareholder Suits and Investors Class Actions in Italy (Paolo Giudici, Director, Center for Research in Law & Economics [CRELE], Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; European Corporate Governance Institute [ECGI])
Towards an efficient regime of investor suits – Policy Considerations (Dirk Zetzsche, Ph.D., LL.M., President, Düsseldorf Law School [Graduate Unit of Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf], Manager – Center for Business & Corporate Law)
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Afternoon Session
President: Isabelle Urbain-Parleani (Professor, Université Paris V, Paris)
Shareholder Suits in Austria with Particular Reference to the Price Adjustments Procedures in German and Austrian Law (Spruchverfahren) (Elisabeth Stern, Dr. iur., Grohs Hofer Rechtsanwälte GmbH, Lecturer at the Wirtschaftsuniversität, Vienna)
Shareholders suits against the directors of a company and against other shareholders (and specific dispute resolution mechanisms) in Belgian Law (Arnaud Coibion and Alexia Bertrand, Avocats (Linklaters) and associates to the Centre Jean Renauld, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
An Empirical Analysis of Securities Fraud Class Actions under American Law (Randall S. Thomas, John S. Beasley II Professor in Law and Business, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN, USA)
Cross border Shareholder Suits and the Implications of the EC Shareholders Rights Directive on Shareholder Suits (Dario Latella, Professor, University of Messina, Italy)
Shareholder Suits in Japan (Hiroshi Oda, Professor, University of London (University College), London, England)
The European Discussion on Shareholder Suits from the Trans-Atlantic Perspective
Remarks from the United States (James D. Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)
Shareholder Suits: Common Problems, Different Solutions and First Steps towards a Possible Harmonization by Means of a European Model Code (Susanne Kalss, Professor, Wirtschaftsuniversität, Vienna)Please let us know whether you would like to attend the conference by contacting Dr. Sebastian Mock (sebastian.mock [at ] jura.uni-hamburg.de) at the University of Hamburg.
Kind regards
Yours
Heribert Hirte
