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How the EU Sustainability Mandate’s Impact on U.S. Companies Is Evolving

By Luca Enriques, Matteo Gatti and Roy Shapira May 15, 2025 by Matteo Gatti

In a recent paper, we examine how the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) could reshape the behavior of American corporations. The CS3D holds large corporations legally accountable for how they protect human rights and the environment throughout …

A New Corporate Governance Regime for Carbon Majors

By Matteo Gatti, Suren Gomtsian and Alessandro Romano July 24, 2024 by Matteo Gatti

The debate on corporate purpose is often grounded on an assumption that there is one right model of corporate purpose for all companies. Yet some companies have a much more significant impact on stakeholder groups than others. Just 90 corporations, …

Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Hostile Bids Regime in Europe, 2004-2023

By Luca Enriques and Matteo Gatti March 25, 2024 by Matteo Gatti

In 2004, the European Union (EU) adopted the Takeover Directive, a framework statute aimed at regulating corporate control transactions and takeover bids targeting EU listed issuers. The Directive, amidst aspirations of fostering a unified market for corporate control and ensuring …

The Perils of Reforming Corporate Law to Favor Stakeholders

By Matteo Gatti and Chrystin Ondersma September 22, 2023 by Matteo Gatti

In corporate governance circles, the clash between the different philosophies of shareholder primacy and stakeholderism rages on. In a recent article in the Columbia Law Review, Professor Aneil Kovvali challenged what he calls the “stark choice hypothesis,” which suggests …

How Does Board-Shareholder Engagement Really Work?

By Matteo Gatti, Giovanni Strampelli and Matteo Tonello November 1, 2022 by Matteo Gatti

Board-shareholder engagement plays an important role in corporate governance. In the last decade, investors have increasingly influenced business decisions, and their activities have extended beyond the formal submission of shareholder resolutions for voting at annual meetings. On their part, directors …

Why Corporate America Should Pay Attention to the Proposed EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence

By Luca Enriques and Matteo Gatti April 25, 2022 by Matteo Gatti

On February 23, 2022, the European Commission issued its long-awaited proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (the Proposed Directive). Under the Proposed Directive, large companies operating in the EU market must identify, prevent, and mitigate any actual …

Can a Broader Corporate Purpose Redress Inequality?

By Matteo Gatti and Chrystin Ondersma May 27, 2020 by Matteo Gatti

Well before the Covid-19 pandemic, policymakers and scholars were focused on the debate over corporate purpose and the fragility of an economic system marked by stagnation and runaway inequality.  As a solution, many urged a shift from shareholder primacy (the …

Can Companies and M&A Law in Europe Adapt to the Market for Corporate Control?

By Matteo Gatti October 29, 2018 by Matteo Gatti

Takeover regimes in Europe have been under persistent scrutiny by the public, politicians, and market participants. Sometimes, that is just the nature of the game: Takeovers create winners and losers, and the latter (with the help of their champions and …

The Case for Speeding the Merger Process

By Matteo Gatti October 12, 2017 by Matteo Gatti

Corporate planners and practitioners know well that it takes quite a long time to close a long-form merger, with the shareholder approval requirement accounting for the bulk of the delay in almost half of such mergers. But we have not …

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