The volume traces back to a symposium held at the Max Planck Institute
for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and offers a
broad comparative analysis of company and capital markets law in Germany
and the Nordic states. It details the special elements of company law in
Scandinavia that developed amid the twin forces of innovative
experimentation and the drive for harmonization, contrasting them with
the distinctive features of German company law. Further contributions
deal with the newly created entrepreneur company in Germany and Denmark,
as well as the role of shareholders and boards in public companies. It
also contains detailed analyses of the law of company groups in Germany
and the Nordic states. the volume is further rounded out with
contributions on capital markets law and takeover law, including issues
involving acting in concert, ownership disclosure and the interaction
between the legislator and the takeover panel in Sweden.