The European Company Case Law (ECCL) is organising its seventh symposium in Vilnius (Lithuania) in May. The subject of the conference is directors’ liability to parties other than the company, in particular to individual shareholders and “third parties” (e.g. creditors). The conference can be attended physically, but online participation is also possible. In that case, […]
The Jean-Pierre Blumberg Chair (University of Antwerp), the Institute for Corporate Law, Governance, and Innovation Policies (Maastricht University) and European Company Law will organise the “Conference on Loyalty and Multiple Voting Rights in Europe” on Thursday 15 May 2025 (13h30-18h30) in Antwerp. The conference will discuss recent developments in loyalty and multiple voting rights in […]
On our website, you’ll find a comprehensive database with, for each CCA provision, a useful document containing the relevant preparatory works of the provision and of amending provisions, if any, with tracked changes comparing the different versions. We have updated these documents and included links to the preparatory works. The database is available here.
On 31 May 2024, the Jan Ronse Institute (KU Leuven) will organize a conference on the impact of developments in other fields of law (e.g. the new Civil Code) on corporate law. For the full program and to register, click here.
On 23 January 2024 the Jeune Barreau de Charleroi organises the colloquium “Aux sources du droit des sociétés de demain. Le cent-cinquantenaire de la loi du 18 mai 1873 sur les sociétés commerciales”. For more information, click here.
The following vacancies are open at the U Hasselt:
On March 15th, the government filed a draft law which would, among others, implement the ‘mobility directive’ (2019/2121). The parliamentary proceedings can be consulted here.
On 23 December 2022, the Council of Ministers approved the draft law implementing directive 2019/2121.
The Coppens Prize will be awarded for the 8th time in 2023. This prize (15.000 €), rewards a PhD in law of a European university, who is not older than 40 years and has authored, within the last five years, a thesis or work representing an original contribution to corporate law or to a legal […]
On 14 November at 10 AM, John Armour (Oxford) will be delivering the opening lecture of the Dieter Heremans Lecture Series in Law & Economics at the KU Leuven on ‘The Corporation as a Social Actor’. To read the full program and to register, click here.