Legal Capital in Europe / / ed. by Marcus Lutter.

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• MitwirkendeR: Adensamer, Nikolaus,; Bachner, Thomas,; Bayer, Walter,; Booth, Richard A.,; Drygala, Tim,; Eidenmüller, Horst,; Ekkenga, Jens,; Engert, Andreas,; Fleischer, Holger,; Grunewald, Barbara,; Habersack, Mathias,; Hirte, Heribert,; Huber, Ulrich,; Irujo, José Miguel Embid,; Kalss, Susanne,; Kidyba, Andrzej,; Kluiver, Harm-Jan de,; Kuhner, Christoph,; Lanzius, Tim,; Lutter, Marcus,; Mankowski, Peter,; Merkt, Hanno,; Micheler, Eva,; Miola, Massimo,; Mock, Sebastian,; Noack, Ulrich,; Oelkers, Janine,; Paulus, Christoph G.,; Pellens, Bernhard,; Pentz, Andreas,; Priester, Hans-Joachim,; Rammeloo, Stephan F. G.,; Schmidt, Karsten,; Schwanna, André,; Sellhorn, Thorsten,; SoŁtysiński, StanisŁaw,; Spindler, Gerald,; Szumański, Andrzej,; Urbain-Parléani, Isabelle,; Veil, Rüdiger,
• HerausgeberIn: Lutter, Marcus,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: European Company And Financial Law Review - Special Volume ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (701 p.)

Eine Gruppe von deutschen Kennern des Rechts der Kapitalgesellschaften aus Wissenschaft und Praxis hat sich zusammengefunden, um Sinn und Nutzen des festen Kapitals und seiner einzelnen Elemente zu untersuchen. Im vorliegenden Band finden sich, neben einer Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse, insgesamt 1...

Table of Contents

• i-iv
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Legal capital of public companies in Europe – Executive summary of considerations by the expert group on “Legal Capital in Europe”
• Part 1: Elements of Creditor Protection
• Minimum Capital in the System of Legal Capital
• Raising Cash and Contributions in Kind when forming a Company and for Capital Increases
• Capital Maintenance – The regime of the Capital Directive versus Alternative Systems
• Disguised Distributions and Capital Maintenance in European Company Law
• Director’s Duties in the Vicinity of Insolvency – a comparative analysis with reports from Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden
• Grounds for Insolvency and Liability for Delays in Filing for Insolvency Proceedings – Necessary Supplement to Capital Protection
• Direct Liability of Controlling Parties (Piercing the Corporate Veil) and Related Legal Constellations
• Directors Liability in the Member States of the European Union
• Directors’ disqualification and creditor protection
• Fixed Capital under German Stock Corporation Law and its Significance for the Protection of Investors and Minority Shareholders
• Special Rules for Shareholder Loans: Which Consequences Would Arise for Shareholder Loans if the System of Legal Capital Should be Abolished?
• Claw-back Rules and Creditors’ Protection
• The Future of Creditor Protection through Capital Maintenance Rules in European Company Law – An Economic Perspective
• Improving Creditor Protection through IFRS Reporting and Solvency Tests
• Does contract suffice to protect the creditors of a company and their interests?
• Part 2: Single Country Reports
• England
• Creditor protection through insolvency law in England
• France. Working Group on the Share Capital in Europe – French Answers to the Questionnaire
• Italy. Legal Capital Rules in Italian Company Law and the EU Perspective
• Netherlands. Capital and Capital Protection in The Netherlands: A Doctrine in Flux
• Spain. Capital Protection in Spanish Company Law
• Poland. A Report on Selected Aspects of Legal Capital under Polish Code of Commercial Companies
• USA. Capital Requirements in United States Corporation Law
• Life Without Legal Capital: Lessons from American Law
• Index