RESTRUCTURING GERMANY INC.: THE POLITICS OF COMPANY AND TAKEOVER LAW REFORM IN GERMANY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

CIOFFI, JOHN W.

LAW AND POLICY, n.º 4/2002, pág. 355

I. Introduction. II. Origins of the KonTraG: the structural problems in German Company Law. III. The control and transparency act (Kontrag). IV. The new legal infrastructure: company law, financial market reform, and labor relations. V. Unwinding Germany inc.?: the Mannesmann takeover and tax reform. VI. Backlash and the spillover effect: the EU takeover directive debacle, the German takeover law, and the limits of the liberalism. VII. Conclusion.