International Handbook on Shareholders� Agreements: Regulation, Practice and Comparative Analysis

Shareholderś Agreements have a growing influence on the general understanding of corporate law since they bind not only the shareholders but also affect the constitution of the corporation and can have a severe impact on capital markets. Therefore, Shareholderś Agreements are more and more subject to regulation in corporate, capital market and also insolvency law on the national, the European and the international level. This handbook provides a general examination of conceptual questions of Shareholderś Agreements and provides an analysis of the regulation of Shareholderś Agreements in European and international law and of the national law of more than 20 jurisdictions. Readers will get a general understanding of the theoretical and practical problems involved with Shareholderś Agreements and detailed information on the regulation of Shareholderś Agreements in several jurisdictions and the applicable law in the case of transnational corporations and cross-border transactions.