The costs of separation: friction between company and insolvency law in the single market

Gerner-Beuerle, Carsten and Schuster, Edmund-Philipp ORCID: 0000-0002-9355-535X (2014) The costs of separation: friction between company and insolvency law in the single market. Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Abstract

Corporate mobility and choice of law within the EU has dominated much of the academic writing in European company law over the last decades. What has not yet received much attention is the way in which national company law interacts with and depends on features of the national legal system outside of company law. In this article we explore this interaction and its relevance for coherent national regulatory systems. Using the regulatory framework for companies in the ‘vicinity of insolvency’ as an example, we show how choice of company law can create both regulatory gaps and multiplication of legal requirements, as private international law rules are applied inconsistently across Europe. More importantly, however, we show that even consistent application of conflicts rules would fail to resolve these problems due to cross-doctrinal interdependence within any national legal system. We conclude that this is a design flaw in the way EU law deals with the increasingly international reach of corporations, and discuss possible paths for resolving or mitigating this issue.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Official URL:	http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/wps1.htm
Additional Information:	© 2014 The Authors, London School of Economics and Political Science
Divisions:	Law
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HG Finance K Law > K Law (General)
Date Deposited:	24 Feb 2014 12:30
Last Modified:	02 Jan 2024 19:18
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55829

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