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Cross-Border Mergers

EU Perspectives and National Experiences

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Papadopoulos

    1. Department of Law, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

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  • Represents a comprehensive and original analysis of the Cross-border Mergers Directive
  • Discusses specific angles of the Cross-border Mergers Directive in the light of European and national company law
  • Analyses the effects of the Cross-border Mergers Directive on the internal market and on national company laws

Part of the book series: Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation (SEELR, volume 17)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  3. Cross-Border Mergers in European Company Law: Analysis in the Context of Various Areas of Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Disclosure of Inside Information in Cross-Border Mergers

      • Vassilios D. Tountopoulos
      Pages 103-129

    3. Cross-Border Mergers and Cross-Border Takeovers Compared

      • Matteo Gargantini
      Pages 131-158

    4. The Relationship Between Article 4(1)(b) of the Cross-Border Merger Directive and the European Merger Regulation

      • Marco Corradi, Julian Nowag
      Pages 159-174

    5. Unions’ Freedom to Establish and Provide Services

      • Ewan McGaughey
      Pages 175-191

    6. Tax Mergers Directive: Basic Conceptualisation

      • Georgios Matsos
      Pages 193-208

    7. Procedural Harmonisation in Cross-Border Mergers

      • Michael Kyriakides, Fryni Fournari
      Pages 209-222

  4. National Experiences from the Implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Some Member States

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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    2. Experiences from the Implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Austria

      • Georg Gutfleisch
      Pages 225-244

    3. Experiences from the Implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Cyprus

      • Thomas Papadopoulos
      Pages 245-274

    4. Cross-Border Mergers: The Danish Experience

      • Hanne S. Birkmose
      Pages 275-293

    5. Cross-Border Mergers in France

      • Bénédicte François
      Pages 295-324

    6. The Implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive (2005/56/EC) in Germany: A Story of Insufficiencies and (Better) Alternatives

      • Sebastian Mock
      Pages 325-341
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About this book

This edited volume focuses on specific, crucially important structural measures that foster corporate change, namely cross-border mergers. Such cross-border transactions play a key role in business reality, economic theory and corporate, financial and capital markets law. Since the adoption of the Cross-border Mergers Directive, these mergers have been regulated by specific legal provisions in EU member states. This book analyzes various aspects of the directive, closely examining this harmonized area of EU company law and critically evaluating cross-border mergers as a method of corporate restructuring in order to gain insights into their fundamental mechanisms. It comprehensively discusses the practicalities of EU harmonization of cross-border mergers, linking it to corporate restructuring in general, while also taking the transposition of the directive into account. Exploring specific angles of the Cross-border Mergers Directive in the light of European and national company law, thebook is divided into three sections: the first section focuses on EU and comparative aspects of the Cross-border Mergers Directive, while the second examines the interaction of the directive with other areas of law (capital markets law, competition law, employment law, tax law, civil procedure). Lastly, the third section describes the various member states’ experiences of implementing the Cross-border Mergers Directive.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Law, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Thomas Papadopoulos

About the editor

Dr. Thomas Papadopoulos is an Assistant Professor of Business law at the Department of Law of the University of Cyprus. He received his DPhil in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK (2010). He received a degree of Magister Juris (MJur, 2006) and a degree of MPhil in Law (2007) from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK. He also received his LLB with Distinction (ranked 1st) from the Department of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2005). Previously, he was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, USA (2009-10). He is also a Visiting Professor at the International Hellenic University (Thessaloniki, Greece) and an Attorney at law (Greece). Moreover, he is an Editorial Secretary of the European Company Law (ECL) Journal. He was awarded the “Cyprus Research Award-Young Researcher (2014)” of the Research Promotion Foundation of the Republic of Cyprus (category of ‘Social Sciences & Humanities’). This distinction was awarded on the basis of his research on Takeovers and Mergers and was accompanied by a research grant. He is the Project Coordinator of the Research Project “Takeovers and Mergers in European, Cypriot and Greek Company Law”, which is financed by the Research Promotion Foundation of the Republic of Cyprus. He is the author of the following monograph: Thomas Papadopoulos ‘EU Law and the Harmonization of Takeovers in the Internal Market’, European Monographs Series, 2010, Kluwer. His articles were published in many top international law journals.

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