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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… Read more

On 3 March, the SCGI, together with Nasdaq, TheCityUK and the Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK and the Embassy of Sweden, arranges a seminar where we will discuss the ambitious suite of reforms aimed at strengthening London’s capital markets in the UK, and compare them to the EU:s Savings and Investment Union initiative… Read more

Should the EU focus on harmonising corporate bond markets, rather than further harmonising equity markets? This question is addressed in an Oxford Business Law Blog post by the European Company Law Expert Group, where SCGI-directors Rolf Skog and Erik Lidman are members. The conclusion: “Corporate bond markets are not as different from equity markets as is… Read more

Professor Erik Lidman, Director of the SCGI, has been appointed to the European Company Law Expert Group (ECLE). The ECLE is an independent, not-for-profit group of European company and financial law experts who are dedicated to publishing policy papers on selected topics of European company law and financial regulation. Its main objective is to advise… Read more

On 3 November 2025, a PhD-seminar was held to present the project ‘The definition and interpretation of inside information under the EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR)’, by Jesper Zackrisson. The focus of the project is to examine the definition of inside information as outlined in Article 7.1 littera a) of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.… Read more

On November 1, Stina Bratt was promoted to Associate Professor at Stockholm University. Stina’s latest work includes the book The Regulation of Discharge from Liability in Swedish Company Law, and she is currently working on a project concerning board liability in banks and financial companies. Read more