The 2004 volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business contains a wide variety of topics of interest to international commercial lawyers and their clients. Various areas of company law are discussed, including mergers and acquisitions, piercing the corporate veil and the financing of share acquisitions. The Yearbook also contains several chapters on investments and securities, including the need for corporate governance in this area and the role of collective investment schemes in Bermuda. Some chapters deal with the introduction of now technology into the competition law issues encountered by the telecommunications industry. The introduction and effects of new legislation generally are also addressed, including the new Ukrainian Commercial Code and Brazilian Civil Code.
In addition to discussions on intellectual property, arbitration and asset protection, the Yearbook contains a section on real property rights, including a very interesting comparison between the way in which China and Indonesia view property rights and the treatment received by such rights in Western society. Various areas of law also are looked at from a European point of view, such as the increase in American-style asbestos litigation in Europe, the hiring out of workers within Europe and the effect of the European Convention on Human Rights upon business.
With the ever-increasing introduction of new technology, the expansion of global communications, new attitudes towards business and commerce and increased awareness of personal and property rights, there is a constant need for the law to develop in order to adequately deal with these issues. The yearbook branches out into some of the innovative and topical areas of contemporary law, and should be of great interest to anyone involved in modern-day business.
Finance and Investment: Financial Assistance and Acquisition Finance
Andreas Doepel & Ari Kaarakaine, Panamanian Securities Legislation:
Transparency and Accountability
Beth Anne Gray J., Collective
Investment Schemes in Bermuda
Paul S.L. Lau Romanian Corporate
Governance Principles under Capital Markets and Securities Law
Florian
Nitu, Current Foreign Capital Investment Regulations in Brazil
Walter
Douglas Stuber, Manoel Ignácio Torres Monteiro, Pedro Anan Junior & Marcelo
Antunes Nemer Real and Intellectual
Property: Real Property Law in Spain
Juan B. Antequera & Guillermo
Rodrigo, Protection and Registration of Industrial Designs in Indonesia
Erna Letty Kusoy, Western Property Laws in China and Indonesia
Jacqueline Mowbray Competition Law: New
Developments in Swiss Competition Law and Foreign Undertakings
Thomas A.
Frick & Nicolas Birkháuser Liberalization of Competition in
Brazilian Telecommunications Market
Helena de Araújo Lopes Xavier
Company Law: European
Debate on the Takeover Directive
Renato Conti Swedish and United
Kingdom Takeover Regulations and Their Supervision
Åke J. Fors, Anders
Söderlind & Fredrik Lundén Piercing the Corporate Veil in
Mexico
Omar Guerrero R., Bernardo Ledesma U. & Juan Francisco Torres Landa
R, International Mergers and Acquisitions: Comparative Legislation
Patrice Vachon & Kosta Kostic
General Commercial Law Issues: Romanian Law on Electronic Commerce
Catalin Baiculescu & Horatiu Dan Dumitru Protecting United
States-Based Assets Owned by Non-United States Debtors
J. William Boone &
Jason Watson Companies and the Human Rights Act 1998
Alan Dignam,
Hiring Out of Workers in Europe
Chris Engels & Sophie Maes Business
Law Aspects of the New Brazilian Civil Code
Durval de Noronha Goyos &
Eliana Maria Filippozzi What to Expect as the American Asbestos Litigation
Industry Moves into Europe
Kirk T. Hartley Commercial and
Controversial: The Ukraine Codifies Its Business Legislation
Sergei Konnov
International Arbitration Practice in Germany
Stephan Wilske & H. Helen
Chen, Index
