Directors Erik Lidman and Rolf Skog participated in and presented at an international conference on the takeover directive on 7-8 November in Vienna. The conference discussed, amongst other things, the lessons learnt from the work on takeover issues over the last 20 years, both within the EU and internationally, as well as the challenges identified and to be addressed in the future.
Speakers were:
-Associate professor Edmund-Philipp Schuster (London School of Economics),
-Professor Jesper Lau Hansen (Copenhagen university
-Professor Adam Opalski (University of Warsaw)
-Professor Alain Pietrancosta (University Paris I),
-Professor Andrés Recalde Castells (Autonomous University of Madrid),
-Professor Blanaid Clarke (Trinity College Dublin),
-Professor Dörte Poelzig (University of Hamburg)
-Associate professor Erik Lidman (SCGI and Stockholm university),
-Dr. Erik Sjöman (Lund university),
-Dr. Felix Prechtl (Lawyer)
-Professor Guido Ferrarini (University of Genoa),
-Professor Javier García de Enterría (CUNEF-University, Madrid),
-Professor “Klaus J. Hopt (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law)
Hamburg)”
-Professor Markus Roth (University of Marburg),
-Mag. Martin Wenzl (Head of Listings & Indices Vienna Stock Exchange)
-Professor Martin Winner (Former Chairman Takeover Commission)
-Associate professor Matteo Gargantini (University of Genova),
-Professor Matteo Gatti (Rutgers University),
-Professor Michele Siri (University of Genova)
-Professor Paul Davies(University of Oxford),
-Professor Peter Doralt (Former Chairman and Advisor to the Austrian Federal Government in the Takeover Legislative Process)
-Dr. Peter Huber (Lawyer)
-Associate professor Philipp Fidler (Vienna University of Economics and Business),
-Professor Rolf Skog (SCGI and Stockholm university)),
-Professor Rui Dias (University of Coimbra),
-Professor Susan Emmenegger(University of Bern),
-Mag. Walter Schuster (Supervisory Board Erste Group Bank AG)
-Dr. Winfried Braumann (Chairman Austrian Takeover Commission)
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