The volume Unfinished Business: Two Decades with the EU Takeover Directive has just been published by Cambridge University Press. The book is co-authored by the European Company law Expert Group (ECLE), including Rolf Skog and Erik Lidman (SCGI). The volume contains a number of articles offering practical insights and forward-looking policy recommendations on European takeover regulation, including perspectives from the particularly active Swedish takeover market:
1. The Genesis of the Takeover Directive
Authors: Blanaid Clarke, Rolf Skog
2. Basic Issues Surrounding the TOD’s Transposition
Authors: Markus Roth, Klaus J. Hopt, Adam Opalski
3. The Institutional Design of Takeover Law
Authors: Susan Emmenegger, Martin Winner
4. Enforcement of Takeover Law
Authors: Peter Agstner, Dörte Poelzig
5. Conflict of Laws in Takeovers
Authors: Rui Dias
6. Development and Impact of the Mandatory Bid Rule in Europe
Authors: Philipp Fidler, Martin Winner
7. Derogations from the Mandatory Bid Rule
Authors: Rolf Skog, Erik Sjöman
8. Acting in Concert
Authors: Javier García de Enterría, Matteo Gargantini
9. Conceptual Issues of Equal Treatment and the Mandatory Bid Rule
Author: Edmund Schuster
10. The Defensive Measures Provisions of the Takeover Directive
From Ambition to Resignation to Distrust
Authors: Paul Davies, Alain Pietrancosta
11. Death by a Thousand Cuts
The Hostile Bids Regime in Europe, 2004–2023
Authors: Luca Enriques, Matteo Gatti
12. Takeovers and Corporate Sustainability
Authors: Guido Ferrarini, Michele Siri
13. The Alternative to Takeover Offers in the UK
Using Schemes of Arrangement to Effect a Change of Control
Author: Jennifer Payne
14. Change of Control by Merger of Corporations
Author: Susanne Kalss
15. The Changing Ownership Landscape
Author: Anna Christie
16. Multiple-Voting Rights and Takeovers
Authors: Erik Lidman, Andrés Recalde Castells
17. Reform of the Takeover Directive
Harmonisation or Member State Autonomy?
Authors: Jesper Lau Hansen, Therese Strand
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