European Union: Shareholders

This legislative update examines Ireland's Autumn 2026 legislative agenda, including reforms to director address disclosure and cooperative societies law, while analyzing key governance trends from the UK proxy season and the European Commission's corporate law harmonization priorities. The analysis explores shareholder activism, board diversity expectations, and the EU's ambitious "EU Inc." framework aimed at creating unified company law across Member States.

For a growing games company, an IPO may seem a long way off. Management is focused on developing new titles, expanding into international markets, growing its player base and investing in talent and technology.

El Tribunal Supremo español establece que los activos por impuesto diferido no constituyen "beneficios propios de la explotación" a efectos de liquidar un usufructo de acciones. La sentencia delimita qué reservas societarias deben computarse cuando el usufructuario reclama el incremento de valor de las acciones al extinguirse el derecho real.

The Irish High Court has ruled that shareholders no longer have an automatic right to access a company's privileged legal advice, abolishing the shareholder rule that previously allowed such disclosure. This landmark decision aligns Irish law with recent developments in England, Wales, and Bermuda, fundamentally reshaping the relationship between corporate privilege and shareholder information rights.

Cyprus company redomiciliation transfers a foreign company's registered office to Cyprus without dissolving it, preserving legal identity, contracts, assets and trading history. The process requires careful analysis of tax implications, asset valuation rules under Article 33B(3), and substance requirements to determine whether continuation is commercially worthwhile compared to incorporating a new Cyprus entity.

Der Bundesgerichtshof hat sich mit der Reichweite der gesellschafterlichen Treuepflicht bei Prozessfinanzierungsvereinbarungen zwischen einer GmbH und einem nahestehenden Gesellschafter befasst. Zugleich wurden grundlegende Anforderungen an die ordnungsgemäße Einberufung von Gesellschafterversammlungen und die Grenzen der Vertretungsmacht nach § 37 Abs. 2 GmbHG bei gesellschafterbeherrschten Vertragspartnern geklärt.

This article is part of a series exploring court actions available under the Companies Act (Chapter 386 of the Laws of Malta).

When a new company is formed, the shareholders are usually focused on the opportunities ahead rather than the possibility of future disagreements. The parties may be long-standing friends, family members, business...

Cyprus companies are frequently used in international business structures, holding arrangements and cross-border investments. In this context, nominee shareholder arrangements remain a familiar and legitimate feature...