The 7^th ECFR Symposium was held in Luxemburg on September 28, 2012 on

 1) Corporate Governance: Duties and Liabilities of Board Members and

 2) The Transfer of Seat

• Program of the Symposium 2012  (Program Luxemburg.pdf)

• Slides:
  
• Duties and Liabilities of Corporate Fund Directors The View of the Industry by Claude Kremer (Kremer.pdf)
• CORPORATE GOVERNANCE - Duties and Liabilities of board members in Investment Funds -The Legal Situation in Luxemburg and in Europe by Pr. Isabelle RIASSETTO (Riassetto.pdf)
• Mapping Directors' Duties: The European Landscape by Carsten Gerner-Beuerle & Edmund Schuster (Gerner-Beuerle Schuster.pdf)
• A Case Based Study on Duties and Liabilities of Board Members by Theis Klauberg (Klauberg.pdf)
• Risk Management, Company Law and Procedures by Luca Enriques & Dirk A. Zetzsche (Zetzsche.pdf)
• Beyond Shareholder Value: Corporate Governance and Corporate Venturing by Erik P.M. Vermeulen (Vermeulen.pdf)
• Conflict of Interest, Secrecy and Insider Information of Directors by Klaus J. Hopt (Hopt.pdf)
• The OECD report on related party transactions - Global issues but local solutions by Grant Kirkpatrick (Kirckpatrick.pdf)
• Director’s duties in groups of company: legalizing the interest of the group at the European level by Pierre-Henri Conac (Conac.pdf)

The 6^th ECFR Symposium "The Role of Central Banks in the Financial Markets and the European Commission’s Green Paper (the EU corporate governance framework)" Zurich (Switzerland), September 30, 2011

• Program of the Symposium 2011  (Program 2011.pdf)
  
  
• Slides:
  
• Central Banks as Supervisors before and after the Financial Crisis" by Donato Masciandaro (Masciandaro.pdf)
• The Division of Capital Markets’ Supervision between Central Banks and Capital Markets Authorities" by Helene Vletter-van Dort (Vletter.pdf)
• Central Banks and the European Stability Mechanism (as proposed by the Council)" by Peter Sester (Sester.pdf)
• The Financial Stability Board in the International Financial Architecture" by Eva Hüpkes (Huepkes.pdf)
• State Aids, Central Banks and the Financial Crisis" by Georgios Psaroudakis (Psaroudakis.pdf)
• A Swiss Response to Systemic Risk: the «Too Big to Fail» Draft Banking Legislation" by Mario Giovanoli (Giovanoli.pdf)
• The Law of Intermediated Securities" by Luc Thévenoz (Thevenoz.pdf)

5^th ECFR Symposium "The Allocation of Powers in Stock Corporations" and "The Bankruptcy of Corporate Groups", Brussels, Ocotber 1, 2010

• Program of the Symposium 2010  (Program.pdf)
• Empowering Shareholders in Directors’ Elections: a Revolution in the Making by Marco Ventoruzzo" (Ventoruzzo.pdf)
• The Virtues and Limitations of Shareholder Democracy" by Hans-Ueli Vogt (Vogt.pdf)
• The Foundations of the Separation of Powers in Companies - a Comparative Perspective" by Alexander Schall (Schall.pptx)
• The Balance of Power in Eastern European Corporations by Joanna Warchol (Warchol.pdf)
• Europe's Ius Commune on Director Revocability" by Sofie Cools (Cools.pdf)
• The Balance of Power in the Public Corporation in EU Legislation by Matthias Schmidt-Gerdts (Schmidt-Gerdts.pdf)
  
• The Position of Minority shareholders in Takeovers and under Schemes of Arrangement in the UK by Jennifer Payne (Payne.pdf)
• Restructuring  Corporate Groups under insolvency proceedings" by Th. Bosly & M. Alhadeff (Bosly.pdf)

• The papers of the symposium are published in ECFR 2011, 101 ff. (available at http://www.reference-global.com/toc/ecfr/8/2 )

4^th ECFR Symposium „The Financial Crisis“ and „The European Private Company (SPE)“, The Hague, October 2, 2009

• Program of the Symposium 2009  (Program 2009.pdf)

• Slides:
• Resolving Cross-Border Banks by Eva Hüpkes (Huepkes.pdf)
• Financial Markets Regulation on the European Level by Eddy Wymeersch (Wymeersch.pdf)
• International Co-operation of Financial Supervisory Authorities by Thomas Schmitz-Lippert (Schmitz-Lippert.pdf)
• The Role of Executive Compensation in and after the Financial Crisis by Roberta Romano (Romano.pdf)
• Mastering the Financial Crisis: Answers from France"by Pierre-Henri Conac (Conac.pdf)
• The Law applicable to the EPC by Christoph Teichmann (Teichmann I.pdf and Teichmann II.pdf)
• The EPC and its Compatability with East European Company Law by Krzysztof Oplustil (Oplustil.pdf)
• Directors’ duties and liability in the EPC by Nuria Latorre (Latorre.pdf)
• The Use and Abuse of the Freedom of Establishment by Companies: Some Recent Data Directors’ duties and liability in the EPC by Wilhelm Niemeier (Niemeier.pdf)

• The papers of the symposium are published in ECFR 2010, 169 ff. (available at http://www.reference-global.com/toc/ecfr/7/2)

 

3^rd ECFR Symposium "Shareholder Suits", Vienna, October 10, 2008

• Program of the Symposium  2008  (Program 2008.pdf)
• The papers of the symposium are published in ECFR 2009, 161 ff. (available at  http://www.reference-global.com/toc/ecfr/6/2-3)

2^nd ECFR Symposium "Corporate insolvency", Paris, October 12, 2007

• Program of the Symposium 2007  (ECFR Program)
• Photos (pdf file)  (Paris Photos.pdf)
• The papers of the symposium are published in ECFR 2008, 135 ff. (available at http://www.reference-global.com/toc/ecfr/5/2)

 

1^st ECFR Symposium "Cross-border Company Transactions", Milan, October 13, 2006

• Program of the Symposium 2006  (Program 2006.pdf)
• The papers of the symposium are published in ECFR 2007, 1 ff. (available at  http://www.reference-global.com/toc/ecfr/4/1)