Taking a text, cases and materials approach, this is the first and only student textbook on European company law, providing an insight into the subject and shedding light on its future development. Textboxes for explanatory commentary, cases and materials - such as EU legislation, official documents and excerpts from scholarly papers - are clearly differentiated from the text, allowing the student to quickly identify sources. Each chapter also includes suggestions for further reading. Structured in seven parts, the book explores a diversity of topics, from what European company law is, the common rules for establishing, financing and accounting a company, and corporate governance, to the structure of the Societas Europaeca Statute, EU company law directives, capital markets and takeover law, and insolvency. An essential resource for the growing number of graduate courses on European company law, European business law, and comparative corporate law.
Provides the first and only student textbook covering the subject of European company law
Approaches the subject from a text, cases and materials perspective
Includes all European company law sources, highlighting relevant excerpts

Table of Contents:
Part I.. The Origins and Future of ECL:
1. TFEU provisions on company law
2. The company law directives
3. Uniform company law
4. Simplifying and modernising ECL
Part II. The Right of Establishment:
5. Primary establishment in ECJ case law
6. Secondary establishment in ECJ case law
7. New legislative trends
Part III. Formation:
8. The setting-up of a NewCo
9. The formation of an SE
Part IV. Finance and Accounts:
10. Legal capital and capital formation
11. Capital maintenance
12. Annual and consolidated accounts
Part V. Corporate Governance:
13. Corporate governance
14. Management and control
15. General meeting
16. Protection of minorities and equal treatment of shareholders
Part VI. Capital Markets and Takeover Regulation:
17. Capital markets
18. Takeover regulation
Part VII. Merger, Division, Dissolution and Insolvency:
19. Merger and division
20. Dissolution and insolvency.