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Cover; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Part I -- Overview of Company Law and Types in Germany and the Nordic Countries ; Holger Fleischer: A Guide to German Company Law for International Lawyers -- Distinctive Features, Particularities, Idiosyncrasies; A. Legal Sources and Types of Business Organisations in Germany; I. No Code Unique, no Comprehensive Company Code, no Unitary Capital Company; II. Multitude of Company Law Acts; III. No Single Dominant Organisational Form; 1. Statistical Data; 2. Additional Explanations; IV. Popularity of Hybrid Business Organisations. |
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B. Main Players in Company LawI. The Legislator; 1. Stock Corporation Act; 2. Limited Liability Companies Act; II. Specialised Courts; III. Company Law Scholarship; C. Distinctive Features of German Stock Corporation Law; I. Interest of the Enterprise ("Unternehmensinteresse"); II. Two-tier Board ("duale Führungsstruktur") and Codetermination ("Mitbestimmung"); III. Mandatory Nature of the Stock Corporation Act ("aktienrechtliche Satzungsstrenge"); IV. Fiduciary Duties of Shareholders ("mitgliedschaftliche Treuepflichten"). |
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V. Rescission Suits ("Beschlussmängelklagen") as the Most Important Enforcement MechanismVI. Codified Law of Corporate Groups ("Konzernrecht"); D. Gradual Erosion of German Particularities in Company Law; Jan Andersson: The Making of Company Law in Scandinavia and Europe -- Experimentation and Innovation versus Harmonization; A. Introduction; B.A Brief History of the Scandinavian Work in Company Law until the 1970s -- the Period of "Resulting Harmonization"; C.A Brief Overview of What Happened Next in Nordic Countries until 2014 -- the Period of "Experiments." |
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D. The Scandinavian Period of "Resulting Harmonization" and the Subsequent Period of "Experiments" -- an Evaluation of the ExperiencePart II -- The Law of Private Limited Companies ; Frauke Wedemann: Reforming the Law of Limited Liability Companies in Germany; A. Introduction; B. Modernization of the GmbH; I. Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungbeschränkt) = Entrepreneurial Company (with Limited Liability); 1. No Significant Capital Stock Amount; 2. Company's Name; 3. Statutory Reserve; 4. Raising of Capital; 5. Conversion into a "Normal" GmbH; 6. Range of Use; II. Sample Protocol. |
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III. Acquisition of Shares from an Unentitled PersonC. Combating Misuses; I. Measures against "Burying of Firms"; II. Disqualification of Managing Directors; D. Conclusion; Troels Michael Lilja: Entrepreneur Companies in Denmark and Germany -- On the Danish IVS and the German UG (haftungsbeschränkt); A. Background; B. The Purpose of this Chapter; C. Why Has Denmark "Copied" the UG?; I. The Danish s.m.b.a. (Company with Limited Liability); II. The Purpose of the Legislative Proposal; III. Criticism of the IVS (Hearing); IV. The Cross-border Alternatives; 1. Competition between Legal Systems. |
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Dieser Band behandelt aktuelle und grundlegende Themen des Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrechts in Deutschland und den nordischen Staaten. Erörtert werden charakteristische Merkmale des Gesellschaftsrechts in Skandinavien und Deutschland, die neu geschaffene Unternehmergesellschaft in Deutschland und Dänemark, die Rolle der Anteilseigner in Publikumsgesellschaften, Fragen des Konzernrechts, des Acting in Concert, der kapitalmarktrechtlichen Beteiligungstransparenz und des Übernahmerechts. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Corporation law -- Germany.
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Corporation law. |
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Germany. |
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Electronic books.
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Fleischer, Holger.
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| ISBN |
3161539567 (e-book) |
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9783161539565 (electronic book) |
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3161539079 |
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