ICGI research fellow Rogier Wolf published an article in this month's issue of ‘Ondernemingsrecht’. In his contribution, Wolf discusses the position of the holder of non-voting certificates in relation to the circle of stakeholders of a company and their ability to nullify a decision of the board.
Part of the Act on the Simplification and Flexibilization of Private Limited Liability Company Law, which entered into force on 1 October 2012, was a simplified procedure to adopt and approve the annual accounts of a private limited liability company for companies where all shareholders are also on the board of directors
The transfer of Prof. Ron M.A. Heeren (1965) from Amsterdam to Maastricht on 1 September 2014 signals the start of the creation of a new European institute for molecular imaging: M4I, or the Maastricht Multimodal Molecular Imaging institute.
ICGI Professional Fellow Prof. Bas Steins Bisschop published an article in the NJB (Nederlands Juristenblad) of the 3rd of October 2014. The article discusses the intended privatisation of ABN-AMRO by, among others, analysing the lessons learned form the takeover battle between KPN and América Móvil
This Annual Report highlights the main activities of the Centre that were undertaken in the year 2013.
PhD-Fellow mr. Bastiaan Kemp was recently featured in ‘Tijdschrift voor Jaarrekeningenrecht’. His article focuses on how a Dutch private limited company (BV) should anticipate on future profits and how to disclose these profits in the annual account.
The 27th and 28th of November, the Ius Commune Research School organises its 19th Ius Commune Congress which will be hosted in the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Ius Commune facilitates research activities conducted by its 230 researchers and another 130 doctoral students. The annual Ius Commune Congress consists of several plenary sessions and also multiple workshops.
Recently ICGI PhD-fellows mr. Bastiaan Kemp and mr. Samantha Renssen wrote about a parent company liquidator's authority to order the subsidiary company to request its own liquidation. Kemp and Renssen analyse a recent case judicated by the Court of Appeal in Arnhem that has raised a number of legal questions.
Recently ICGI Research fellow mr. dr. Rogier Wolf’s annotations to two rulings have been published in the journal ‘Jurisprudentie in Nederland’. One is a ruling of the Dutch Supreme Court and one a ruling of Amsterdam’s High Court.
The Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) is getting started at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus. At an on-campus meeting on Wednesday 6 November, the initiators, Maastricht University (UM) and RWTH Aachen University, presented the professors who will be joining the AMIBM project team. It was also announced that the tender for the research equipment had been published. The partnership with the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (Fraunhofer IME) in Aachen has also been developed further and the future research programmes have been detailed in a strategic plan.