Research activities

I am pleased to share that the proceedings of our German-Italian Symposium on Company Law in Hamburg have now been published.

The edited volume, „Great Debates in German and Italian Company Law", edited by Holger Fleischer and Marco Speranzin, is available as an Open Access publication.

My contribution to the book explores the debate(s) on the concept of limited liability.

The volume is available here: https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/great-debates-in-german-and-italian-company-law-9783162005380/

I am happy to announce that the 2nd edition of the Article-by-Article Commentary on European Financial Services Law edited by Matthias Lehmann and Christoph Kumpan has been published by this month. I had the pleasure to contribute an updated commentary on the EU Short Selling Regulation.

For more information click on the following link

https://www.nomos-shop.de/en/p/european-financial-services-law-gr-978-3-7560-2257-1

My thanks go to Paolo Giudici and Peter Agstner for hosting the Fifth German-Italian Symposium on Company Law at the Faculty of Economics and Management of unibz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) in Bozen on 16/17 April 2026.

I had the pleasure to talk about „The Duties and Responsibilities of Board Members in Controlled Companies - Between Company Interest, Group Interest and the Interest of the Controlling Shareholder“. I did so with a view to the current debate on the reform of German group law.

On Friday, 13 March 2026, I held a workshop on comparative group law with dear colleagues from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and Universidad de los Andes in Santiago de Chile. In the course of our talk I depicted the current reform debate in Germany and the topics and issues that will be discussed on the next DJT in Erfurt. Once again, I would like to thank Andrea Martínez and Osvaldo Lagos Villarreal for their hospitality.

On 10 March 2026 I had the pleasure to talk about “Multiple hats, multiple liability?“ at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago de Chile. In my presentation I depicted the many issues related to the assignment of directors' conduct and knowledge to their company under German Law. I did so by referring to a recent FCJ decision that dealt with a case where the tortfeasor held directorships in several members of the same corporate group. My heartfelt thanks go to Andrea Martinez who invited me to Chile and organized the event.

Please follow the link for further information.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of European Law is now available on Elgaronline. Launching with almost 100 entries and expanding to over 400, the Encyclopedia brings together carefully curated contributions by leading practitioners and scholars from across the region, under the expert editorship of Oana Ștefan and Andrea Biondi, who is a current Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union.

I have contributed the entry on the “Transparency Directive” to the Encyclopedia.

Further information on the Elgar Encyclopedia of European Law is available at: https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781800885240/9781800885240.xml

The entry “Transparency Directive” can be accessed directly at: https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781800885240/b-9781800885240.transparency.directive.xml