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8 Eur. Company L. 1 (2011)

handle is hein.kluwer/eurcompl0008 and id is 1 raw text is: VOLUME 8, ISSUE 1 EUROPEAN omi)aNxr Law 4 EDITORIAL Hedge Funds and Improved Regulatory Inclusion: Myth Or Reality? Marco Lainandini 8 The German Government Proposal on Cash-Settled Equity Disclosures In line with developments on the European Level, the German Federal Government has published in September 2010 a proposal that envisages subjecting holdings in any derivative or other financial instruments that are referenced to shares with voting rights (i.e., equity-based) to shareholder disclosure requirements. With this law, the legislator wants to ban hidden stakebuilding or creeping-in of bidders prior to a public takeover. Ul/ric/i Brandt and David Quartner Ranking the Rules Applicable to Cross-Border Mergers Since the implementation of the Tenth directive on cross-border mergers (CBNIs) in the national laws of the Member States of the European Union, a clear statutory framework for cross-border legal mergers of limited liability companies exists which underlies the laws of different lember States of the EU. However, when implementing a cross-border legal merger, specific problems may arise in legal practice due to the principle of the cumulative application of the national merger laws and procedures governing the parties to the CBMI. Gerco C. van Eck and Erwin R. Roelofs 2 3 Oil Disaster Spills Over BP Europa SE On the 30th of April 2010, BP merged several of its European organizations into a European Company (SE), BP Europa SE, registered in Hamburg, Germany. This SE is not a holding company, but rather one company which operates in several different countries. The creation of this SE inter alia allowed BP to reduce the number of seats on the supervisory board considerably and to'Europeanise' employee representation on the board. \ ilentine N.J. Snijder and Adriaan Dorrestciin 27 Harmonization of Insolvency Law in Europe 27 In April 2010, at the request of the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs, a report was presented on the harmonization of Insolvency Law at the EU level. In the report disparities between several national insolvency laws are described. The report displays of a number of areas of insolvency law where harmonization at EU level could be worthwhile. However, as the H-1word (harmonization) has been avoided the last decade, the question arises whether such harmonization is feasable in any form. Bob Iesscls 32 COUNTRY STATUS REPORTS 32 Norway, Romania and Spain 4 COLUMNS Survey of Legislation and Case Law Legal Periodicals: A Selection Wolters Kluwer Law & Business FEBRUARY 2011

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