SCGI

The annual Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) was held at Columbia University on June 13–15. The GCGC brings together leading academics from top universities from Europe, the US and Asia. The SCGI is one of the twelve organizing institutions, along with Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Yale Law School, Goethe University, imperial College, Oxford Read more

The SCGI is participating in a joint EU research project on the harmonisation of sanctions of market abuse, together with researchers from Spain (profs. Andrés Recalde Castelles & Fernando Juan y Mateu), France (prof. Alain Pietrancosta), Germany (prof. Rüdiger Veil), Italy (prof. Marco Ventoruzzo), Finland (prof. Mårten Knuts), Denmark (prof. Jesper Lau Hansen), Norway (profs. Read more

On 6 June, director Rolf Skog participated in the Legalink ESG seminar. Rolf Skog spoke about the development and implementation of the EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence from a corporate governance perspective. He describes the long and complex process from proposal to adoption, including the criticisms and challenges that arose along the way. Read more

On June 4, the SCGI held a high level roundtable on the EU Capital Markets Union at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, discussing the question – what ought the Swedish position on the CMU be, and how should we contribute? Read more

Over the past ten years, the Swedish corporate bond market has greatly expanded, with both market capitalisation and the number of issuers more than doubling. This development is, first and foremost, very positive, and testifies to the fact that more companies, especially small and medium-sized ones, have been able to obtain financing through the market. Read more

The Swedish corporate bond market has undergone major changes in recent decades, and with these, questions about the design of the regulation and application problems have received increasing attention in the media, from authorities, and among politicians. In 2023, an extensive research project on these issues has been carried out at Stockholm University, within the Read more