One of the highlights of 6 months of Corporate Finance Lab was the mention of the Lab by the famous insolvency scholar Professor Bob Wessels (Leiden) as one of the blogs he follows, alongside the Oxford Business Law Blog, the blog by Professor Geert Van Calster (Leuven and Monash), the International Litigation Blog en Leiden Law Blog.
Some notable posts in English include:
- Real seat by any other name would smell as sweet? Does the “real seat” move from corporate law to insolvency law?
- Our own private Delaware: the ‘partnership en commandite’ A 12th century corporate form as inspiration for legislative reform.
- Good faith in contractual dealings: abstract versus concrete Common law vs civil law.
- An ‘entity’ or not an ‘entity’, that is the question. The Trust and “Centros”.
- New German rules on Group Insolvency Inspiration from the mother of all group law.
- Everybody loses … except the lawyers Perverse incentives?
- When the Going Gets Tough, the Shareholders Get Going Shareholders during financial crisis.
- Distributions to shareholders: inspiration from the ‘partnership en commandite’? Why a dividend should make you feel uneasy.
- Pre-insolvency proceedings, normative foundation and framework A rescue culture gone rogue?
- You can’t have your cake and eat it too: on debt as equity Equitable subordination of shareholder debt?
- What are the duties of a shareholder? Corporate interest und kein Ende.
- In the meantime in the Netherlands Dutch Corporate Governance.
- Delaware halts the eruption of M&A litigation in the Volcano case Why most deals in the US end in litigation.
- The Mystery of Corporate Social Responsibility In a Market Economy Economic growth or sustainability?
- The Walls Have Fallen, Run for the Keep The Kornhaas case.
- Organisational contracts: rethinking the European paradigm In the twiglight zone between contracts and corporate entities?
- RegTech as a response to regulatory expansion in the financial sector Is the remedy worse than the illness?
- The effect of formation rules on the functioning of capital markets: lessons from history Germany and UK in the 19th century
- Supply Chain Liability: The French Model Corporate liability for human rights violations.
- Nullity of a contract: the economic equivalent of a put or call option Three cheers for opportunistic contract parties?
- Shareholders in insolvency law: here to stay On the absence of real borders between company law and insolvency law.
- The Supreme Court of the United States on the “absolute” priority rule in structured dismissals – A structural dam to stem a flood of undesirable consequences Concrete tips to the European and Belgian policymaker.
- It’s the people, stupid! Individual characteristics influencing bankruptcy Cherchez la femme.
- What does a legal entity know? And do you know it?
- Legal seizure of shares: an underrated cornerstone of organizational law The next chapter in the scholarship on organizational law.
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