European Company Law

Nicola de Luca is Full Professor of Law at Vanvitelli University, Naples and Luiss Guido Carli, Rome. His research and teaching interests include company law, insurance law, mergers and acquisitions, shareholders' relations and comparative corporate governance. He has previously been a visiting scholar at Yale University, the University of Heidelberg and Goethe University of Frankfurt. He has authored four monographs, a handbook on company law, a treatise, and numerous articles and case notes.

Part I. The Origins and Future of European Company Law; 1. TFEU Provisions on Company Law; 2. The Company Law Directives; 3. Uniform Company Law; 4. Simplifying and Modernising European Company Law; Part II. The Right of Establishment; 5. Primary Establishment in CJEU Case Law; 6. Secondary Establishment in CJEU Case Law; 7. New Legislative Trends; Part III. Formation; 8. The Setting Up of a New Company; 9. The Formation of a Societas Europaea; 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 (I); 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.