Business and Financial Law SIG at the 4th International Conference on European Company Law and Corporate Governance

27.11.2020

On 27 November 2020, during the 4th International Conference on European Company Law and Corporate Governance organised by the Zagreb University in cooperation with the ELI Business and Financial Law SIG and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the SIG held a panel on its on-going feasibility study on ‘Corporate Sustainability, Company Law and Financial Accounting’.

On behalf of the project proposers, Dr Yuri Biondi (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and project proposer) summarised the project’s aims, structure, and preliminary findings on both corporate practice and the EU law and regulation concerning corporate sustainability. Professor Clemence Garcia (Gakushuin University and Team member of the proposed project) addressed the accounting dimension of corporate sustainability and financial capital maintenance regimes. Professor Siniša Petrović (University of Zagreb and Advisor of the proposed project) discussed corporate sustainability from a company law and corporate governance perspective.

The speakers and Professor Corrado Malberti (Trento University and project proposer) further discussed complementary and alternative regimes for share capital maintenance in EU law and related implications for company management and governance.

More information is available on the event’s website and in the Conference Program.