The European Company

Description

The European company ('SE') is a legal entity offering a European perspective for businesses, which became a reality on 8 October 2004. Its purpose is to allow businesses that wish to extend their activities beyond their home Member State to operate throughout the EU on the basis of a single set of rules and a unified management system. This book explains how to set up and organise a European company, and sets out the text of the relevant EC instruments that serve as its legal basis, as well as the national implementing legislation. It is essential for businesses and their advisers to understand the implementing legislation of the relevant Member States in deciding where to establish an SE. This book provides comprehensive coverage of such legislation in all Member States of the European Economic Area which have, as at 1 July 2005, implemented the Regulation containing the SE statute and the Directive on employee involvement in the SE.

Dirk Van Gerven is a Partner at NautaDutilh (a Benelux law firm), Brussels, and is a member of the Brussels Bar and the New York Bar. He has extensive experience in all areas of corporate law, including litigation, international arbitration, securities regulation, and finance. He is head of continuing legal education for the Dutchspeaking Bar of Brussels, a research fellow at the University of Leuven, and has published widely in the fields of corporate and financial law. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Supervisory Board for the Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission of Belgium. Paul Storm is a retired Partner of NautaDutilh, Rotterdam, and is Emeritus Professor of Law at Universiteit Nyenrode. Until 2005 he was Chair of the Combined Committee on Company Law instituted by the Royal Dutch Notarial Society and the Netherlands Bar Association. He is co-author of one of the leading Dutch textbooks on business organisations.

' ... a thorough, reflective and open account of the benefits, drawbacks and practical utility of the European company ... readily accessible to busy practitioners who wish to obtain an overview of the issues surrounding the European company while at the same time affording detailed analysis to those who wish to learn more.' The Journal of Business Law