Company Law 2013 - Unit 6: European Corporate Entities: Overview and the European Company (SE)

LMU Europäisches und Internationales Unternehmensrecht (European and International Company Law) Summer Term 2013

Unit 6 - European corporate entities; Further European legal entities; Why European corporate entities?; History of the European Company; Strong increase in SE incorporations; Number of incorporations tripled: 2009-2012; Incorporations by countries as of March 2012; Art. 9 SER; Complex regulatory interplay; Formation of a European Company; Chosen routes of formation as of January 2013; Main features of the European Company; Choice of board structure as of March 2012; Employee involvement; Transfer of register office; Potential reasons of choice of the SE legal form; Motives behind SE formations: survey results; Motives behind SE formations in the EEA: regression results; The Czech Societas Europaea Puzzle; Allianz SE: a case study.