Italy

The Structure of the Board of Directors: Boards and Governance Strategies in the US, the UK and Germany

The chapter continues and advances our earlier research on ‘Board Models in Europe’. We explore 'The Structure of the Board of Directors' with a view to the basic governance structure as provided by a board model vis-à-vis...

Italian Corporate Governance in the Last 15 Years: from Pyramids to Coalitions?

Private Law Enforcement in a Formalist Legal Environment: The Italian Sai-Fondiaria Case

Shares' Allocation and Claw Back Clauses in Italian IPOs

Modernizing Italy's Corporate Governance Institutions: Mission Accomplished?

Stabilization Activity in Italian IPOs

Efficiency of Share-Voting Systems: Report on Italy

Lockup Clauses in Italian IPOs

Institutional Investor Activism in a Context of Concentrated Ownership and High Private Benefits of Control: the Case of Italy

This is a draft chapter for a forthcoming volume, The Research Handbook on Shareholder Power, edited by Randall Thomas and Jennifer Hill (Cheltenham:Edgar Elgar). This chapter describes the experience with activist institutional...

Regulation and self-regulation of related party transactions in Italy: An empirical analysis

This paper assesses how Italian companies have implemented the regulation on related party transactions enacted by Consob in 2010. Companies have been given some degree of freedom in devising their internal codes: they may ?opt-up? or...

Do Market Abuse Rules Violate Human Rights? The Grande Stevens v. Italy Case

The 2014 decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case ?Grande Stevens and Others v. Italy? raises numerous complex issues concerning the regulation of market abuses in Italy, Europe, and also in other systems. The...

Market Soundings: The Interaction between Securities Regulation and Company Law in the United Kingdom and Italy

Before deciding on operations involving share issuance or sale, companies or shareholders may seek to disclose information to selected investors, in order to gauge their opinion on the envisaged market operation. Such ‘market...