The Pierre Coppens Prize will be awarded for the ninth time in 2026. This prize, worth €15,000, is awarded to a doctor of law/legal sciences from a European university, aged 40 or under, who has written a work – published or unpublished – representing an original contribution to company law or a legal topic related […]
The Faculty of Law at KU Leuven is looking for a part-time guest lecturer (10%) for the course ‘Associations, foundations and social enterprises’ as part of the Master’s programme in Company Law (Brussels campus). More information here.
As part of its objectives to improve European competitiveness, the European Commission is working on the implementation of a single, optional and harmonised legal framework for innovative companies across the European area. Such initiative, known as the 28th Regime, will allow companies to incorporate, invest and operate under one set of rules. The Commission opened […]
The Committee for Advice on Companies and Associations (CASAVV), an advisory committee set up by Fednot and the Centre, has published two new opinions on its website concerning the following questions: Both opinions can be consulted on the CASAVV website here.
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.