Regulating EU Capital Markets Union

Rüdiger Veil holds the chair for civil law and business law at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. He graduated at Humboldt University, Berlin in 1995 with a doctoral thesis on 'Conversion of a Stock Corporation'. In 2002, he obtained his habilitation at Humboldt University with a book on 'Inter-company Agreements'. Rüdiger Veil has published books on 'European Capital Markets Law' (3rd. edition 2022) and on 'The Law of Corporations' (6th. edition 2015) and more than 100 articles in top ranked journals and research handbooks. He has acted as an expert for the German, European, Chinese and Russian parliament on draft laws on corporate law and capital markets law. He was a member of the ESMA Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) from 2014 to 2018; from September 2016 to December 2018 he was the group's Chair. ESMA has appointed him as an Alternate Member of the ESA Joint Board of Appeal in 2021.

Part 1: Idea of Codification, Legislative Competencies and Legislative Style
1: Rüdiger Veil: The Idea of Codification of European Capital Markets Law
2: Azur Coulmas: The Draft US Federal Securities Code - Lessons for Codifying EU Capital Markets Law
3: Jörn Axel Kämmerer: European Capital Markets Code: The Treaty Framework
4: Vassilios Tountopoulos: The Legislative Style of Codification: the example of compliance within investments firms
5: Hans Christoph Grigoleit: Sanctions and Degree of Harmonization
Part 2: General Part of a European Securities Code: Regulatory Objectives and Strategies
Section 1: Regulatory Objectives and Strategies
6: Rüdiger Veil: Efficient and Properly Functioning Capital Markets - Regulatory Objectives in a European Capital Markets Code
7: Mathias Habersack: Regulatory Objectives and Strategies: Investor Protection
8: Jesper Lau Hansen: Market Transactions and the Case of Insider Dealing - Drawing the Line between Legal and Illegal Behaviour
9: Jacek Jastrzrebski: Regulatory Objectives: Financial Stability
10: Birgit Spießhofer: Sustainability and ESG Aspects
11: Jennifer Payne: Managing the Conflicts Between Regulatory Goals
12: Marco Ventoruzzo: Regulatory Goals in Capital Markets Law - Reflections on the Value of Provisions on Goals in a Codification Act
13: Iris H-Y Chiu: Proportionality in a European Capital Markets Code
Section 2: Basic Concepts
14: Jacek Dybi'nski and Krzysztof Oplustil: Defining 'Securities' in the European Capital Markets Code
15: Matthias Casper and Patrick Leopold: DLT-based instruments in the context of securities definitions
Part 3: Content of Special Parts
16: Rüdiger Veil: Prospectuses: Primary Markets Law in a European Capital Markets Code
17: Morten Kinander: Market Abuse - Codifying the Core Elements of the Market Abuse Regime in the MAR and the CRIM-MAD
18: Giovanni Strampelli: The Limits of Including Financial Disclosure Rules in a European Capital Markets Code
19: Veerle Colaert: Investment Services
20: Andrés Recalde Castells and Martin Winner: Public Takeovers
Part 4: Conclusion
21: Rüdiger Veil: Conclusion