The book provides students of European company law courses scholars and practitioners with an
overview. Although company law remains mainly regulated at the level of national laws it has
become important to obtain a systematic view of the main directives in the field of company law
the EU Court of Justice's jurisprudence the European Model Company Act and the state of
implementation of these directives in the member states of the Union. The book therefore
contains in addition to the illustration of the law laid down by EU legislative bodies and the
related soft laws detailed references to the most important domestic legislations and case
laws in order to make them known and usable as much as possible. Moreover the book allows
identifying the most relevant current legislative trends and the main historical reasons for
divergences.
