European Company Case Law (ECCL)

The drive for sustainability is not only prompting changes in environmental and human rights law but is also significantly reshaping business law, including corporate law. One potential pathway to more sustainable corporate decision-making lies in...

Traditionally, shareholder activists have been viewed as very hostile by Japanese companies and Japanese society in general, and British academics who studied trends in shareholder activism in Japan in the early 2010s predicted that shareholder...

This article explores the critical importance of board expertise in the nomination process of directors within listed companies, and the context of European corporate governance. It examines statutory provisions, corporate governance codes, and...

France was the first state to impose a sustainability due diligence duty on its companies through a law of 27 March 2017 called a “duty of vigilance”. But its only quite recently that the first case law was handed down, outlining the contours of...

This paper is an analysis and overview of the Croatian law which allows companies with an international dimension to re-organise their businesses on a European level. In the paper, special emphasis is given to the role of the court in the procedures...