Shareholders´ Agreements have a growing influence on the general understanding of corporate law since they bind not only the shareholders but also affect the constitution of the corporation and can have a severe impact on capital markets. Therefore, Shareholders´ Agreements are more and more subject to regulation in corporate, capital market and also insolvency law on the national, the European and the international level. This handbook provides a general examination of conceptual questions of Shareholders´ Agreements and provides an analysis of the regulation of Shareholders´ Agreements in European and international law and of the national law of more than 20 jurisdictions. Readers will get a general understanding of the theoretical and practical problems involved with Shareholders´ Agreements and detailed information on the regulation of Shareholders´ Agreements in several jurisdictions and the applicable law in the case of transnational corporations and cross-border transactions.

• Foreword
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• General Remarks
• Shareholders’ Agreements between Corporate and Contract Law
• Relationship of Shareholders’ Agreements to the Management of a Company
• Ratio legis behind the regulation of shareholders’ agreements in the model acts: elimination of the application problems or over-regulation?
• Cross-border Shareholders’ Agreements and Private International Law
• Shareholders’ Agreement Arrangement in Pre-insolvency and Insolvency Law
• Shareholders’ Agreements between the Law of Contract and Competition Law
• National Reports
• Austria
• Belgium
• Brazil
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• England and Wales
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Israel
• Italy
• The Netherlands
• Poland
• Romania
• Slovakia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Ukraine
• United States of America
• Subject Index