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  • Mats Isaksson appointed Chair of the Swedish Corporate Governance Board

    Mats Isaksson appointed Chair of the Swedish Corporate Governance Board

    Mats Isaksson, Director of SCGI, has recently been appointed Chair of the Swedish Corporate Governance Board, and Louise Lindh, board member of SCGI, has been appointed Vice Chair. The Board issues the Swedish Corporate Governance Code and plays a key role in the Swedish corporate governance model. We warmly congratulate them both on their prestigious Read more

  • SCGI/OECD report on the Swedish equity market

    SCGI/OECD report on the Swedish equity market

    The third report within the Swedish Capital Market Review project has now been published – The Swedish Equity Market: Institutional Frameworks and Trends. The report provides a comprehensive empirical overview of the Swedish equity market landscape and presents an initial assessment of the elements that have shaped its development. This assessment, based on original data Read more

  • How to build a strong and inclusive capital market – the case of Sweden

    How to build a strong and inclusive capital market – the case of Sweden

    On 3 April, the Government Offices of Sweden and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise co-hosted a high-level Nordic-Baltic event on capital markets. The aim of the event was to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness. Mats Isaksson, Director of SCGI, was invited to speak on “How to build a strong and inclusive capital market – the case of Read more

  • OECD Webinar on Corporate Bond Market Regulation

    OECD Webinar on Corporate Bond Market Regulation

    On 27 January, the OECD published “Regulatory Frameworks and Trends in the Corporate Bond Market”. The report analyses key regulatory issues related to directors’ fiduciary duties, bond issuance decisions, disclosure requirements, bondholder rights, trustees, out-of-court debt restructuring, and sustainable corporate bonds. In order to further discuss the corporate bond market findings, the OECD and the Read more

  • Seminar on equal treatment of corporate bondholders

    Seminar on equal treatment of corporate bondholders

    On 11 March 2025, a PhD seminar was held to present the ongoing project ‘Equal treatment of corporate bondholders’. The project is being led by Anton Hansson. In the initial phase of the work, the focus has been on identifying current equal treatment regulation in the EU and discussing the motives for equal treatment in Read more

  • Completed Project on Discharge in Swedish Company Law

    Completed Project on Discharge in Swedish Company Law

    Stina Bratt has now completed her postdoctoral project, which was funded by Mannheimer Swartling in memory of the lawyer Sven Unger and organised by SCGI. The result is a book which is a valuable resource for both practitioners and researchers working with company law. The book examines the regulation of discharge from liability (décharge) in Read more