Italy

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...

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...

Ownership, Control and Shareholder Value in Italy: Olivetti's Hostile Takeover of Telecom Italia

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...

Lockup Clauses in Italian IPOs

History of Corporate Ownership in Italy

Some Reflections on the Self-insider and the Market Abuse Regulation – The Self-insider as a Monopoly-Square Insider

This article deals with the self-insider, i.e. the possible creation of the inside information by a person and its (abusive) exploitation. It describes...

Stabilization Activity in Italian IPOs

Equity Prices and the Risk of Expropriation: an Analysis of the Italian Stock Market

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

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...

The Performance of Italian Family Firms