The Silent Impact of Europe’s AI Act on Corporate Roles

By Maria Lucia Passador September 12, 2025 by renholding

For more than a decade, the European Union has styled itself as the custodian of digital civilization. If Silicon Valley built the engines, and Shenzhen perfected the replication, Brussels has written the rulebook. After the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

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ISS Offers Preview of Continental Europe Proxy Season

By European Governance Research April 29, 2025 by renholding

European competitiveness: Following the results of the 2024 European elections and the release of the so-called Draghi-report, European competitiveness has emerged as a key priority and a major stewardship theme. European competitiveness is a broad theme affecting various aspects, ranging …

Skadden Offers a Review of ESG in 2024 and Key Trends for 2025

By Raquel Fox, Marc S. Gerber, Simon Toms, Caroline S. Kim and Justin Lau January 9, 2025 by renholding

ESG: 2024 Sees Greater Implementation in Europe and Increasing Divergence With the US

In this article, we reflect on key trends in ESG over the second half of 2024 and look ahead at trends that may emerge in 2025.

We …

ISS Discusses the Latest in ESG and Stewardship Regulation

By Noam Cherki, Hugo Gallagher and Karina Karakulova January 7, 2025 by renholding

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International Organization of Securities Commissions Publishes Report on Impact of Transition Plans Disclosures

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published a report on November 13 covering the key impacts of, and challenges associated with, transition planning. The …

How Saudi Corporate Governance Has Evolved Over the Last Two Decades

By Alissa Kole October 30, 2024 by renholding

I remember that day in 2006 at my OECD office in Paris when a colleague told me he had received a call from the Saudi government. The gentleman on the other end of the line had been inquiring about circuit-breaker …

Paul Weiss Discusses Ruling on Limits of European Commission’s Power to Review Deals

By Nicole Kar, Rich Pepper, William Feerick, Andrea Wei Ling Chong and Timothy Noelanders September 10, 2024 by renholding

The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has upheld an appeal against the European Commission’s ability to accept referrals under Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation (“EUMR”) from national competition authorities who are not competent to …

Europe Needs a Business Law. What Would It Look Like?

By Jan H. Dalhuisen April 12, 2024 by renholding

Globalization, whatever its problems, has created international flows of goods and other items that in value far exceed the GDP of the largest states (or combinations of them like the EU). and so it may lay claim to its own …

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

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

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 …

Skadden Discusses Increasing Shareholder Activism in Europe

By Armand W. Grumberg, George Knighton and Simon Toms February 23, 2024 by renholding

Key Points

The number of activist campaigns launched against European companies rose again in 2023, with a new focus on German targets.
Many activists surveyed believe that France offers them good opportunities.
Most of the companies surveyed said they have

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Cleary Gottlieb Discusses How U.S. Securities Laws Apply to a Bail-In of UK or European Bank

By Andrew Bernstein, John Brinitzer, Amelie Champsaur, David Gottlieb and Sarah Lewis October 27, 2023 by renholding

On October 10, 2023, the Financial Stability Board (the “FSB”) published a report (the “FSB Report”)[1] that examined the international resolution framework as applicable to global systemically important banks (“G-SIBs”). In its examination, the FSB Report stated that the …

ISS Discusses Dual-Class Share Structures in Europe

By Paul Hodgson February 13, 2023 by renholding

While unequal voting structures in the U.S. are commonly associated with technology and media companies, there is no such industry specific tendency in Europe – with its tradition of so-called “loyalty shares” and government ownership. This paper surveying dual class

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From “Corporate Social Responsibility” to “Corporate Social Liability”?

By Karl Hofstetter December 9, 2022 by renholding

The debate about corporate social responsibility has recently moved into new territory: the establishment of what can be called corporate social liability or CSL. CSL goes beyond classic tort and company law and may result in vicarious liability of …

When Should You Abstain? A Call for a Global Rule of Insider Trading

By Ido Baum and Dov Solomon November 9, 2021 by renholding

The core concepts of securities regulation tend to be similar across jurisdictions. However, there are differences that may seem small and insignificant at first glance but in fact generate the potential for arbitrage by the kind of sophisticated actors that …

Comparative Corporate Governance

By Afra Afsharipour and Martin Gelter August 16, 2021 by renholding

With the increasing internationalization of law and legal scholarship, comparative corporate governance has seen a burgeoning volume of research from a practical, theoretical, and empirical perspective. Practically speaking, both internationally and within individual countries, most corporate governance research deals with …

National Blockchain Laws Are a Threat to Capital Markets Integration

By Matthias Lehmann August 3, 2021 by renholding

Since its creation in 2008, the blockchain has seemed incompatible with legal constraint. Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, hailed the blockchain’s “unstructured simplicity.” Even now, apostles of distributed ledger technology (DLT) strongly resist the idea that …

A Social Enterprise Company in EU Organizational Law?

By J S Liptrap July 30, 2021 by renholding

In my recent article, A Social Enterprise Company in EU Organizational Law?, I discuss the present and future regulation of social enterprises in Europe. For the moment, social enterprises – like other “social economy” organizations – have been harnessed …

Prosocial Antitrust

By Amelia Miazad March 25, 2021 by renholding

Recent developments have placed antitrust law on a collision course with corporate purpose. In a new paper, I reveal the unforeseen negative impacts of this conflict and provide a roadmap for avoiding them.

Businesses and investors are increasingly embracing …

The Duty to Disclose Inside Information: The Subtle Relationships Within the European Market Abuse Regulation

By Mathijs Giltjes and Arnoud Pijls February 11, 2021 by renholding

In our recent paper we discuss the European regime governing the disclosure of inside information. In particular, we try to find an answer to the question of which duties of the disclosure regime have been violated in two situations: where …

How Corporate Governance Affects the Success of Initial Public Offerings

By Marina Brogi, Valentina Lagasio and Valerio Pesic December 8, 2020 by renholding

In our recent paper, Can Governance Help in Making an IPO “Successful”? New Evidence from Europe, we find that corporate governance affects company performance after an IPO in different ways. We consider an IPO to be successful if it …

The European Commission Considers “Short-Termism” (and “What Do You Mean by That?”)

By John C. Coffee, Jr. November 16, 2020 by renholding

The European Commission retained Ernst & Young (“EY”) to undertake a detailed study of “short-termism” and, implicitly, to report whether it was a major roadblock to more sustainable corporate governance. Their study was then presented at a three day international …

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