Emeritus Professor
Eddy Wymeersch
Biography
Eddy Wymeersch has been Chairman of the Committee of European Securities regulators (CESR) (February 2007-July 2010) and of the European Regional Committee of IOSCO. He was Chairman of the Belgian Commission Bancaire, Financière et des Assurances (CBFA) (chief executive 2001-2007 and chairman of the supervisory board 2007-2010).
Before joining the CBFA, Mr Wymeersch has held several public functions in Belgium (“regent” of the National Bank of Belgium from 1992 and member of the legislative branch of the Council of State). Between 1990 and 2001, he was a member of the board of several Belgian companies and from 1998, the Chairman of the Brussels airport. Mr Wymeersch has been an academic at the Ghent Law School where he founded the Financial Law Institute and has participated in several committees advising the Belgian government, esp. on financial supervision or corporate governance. In addition, he has acted as an adviser to the European Commission, a consultant to the World Bank and IFC and an advisor to several European financial institutions and stock exchanges. He has published extensively on company law, corporate governance and financial regulations (see: ssrn. and http://www.law.ugent.be/fli). He is member of the European Corporate Governance Forum and of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He studied law at Ghent University and Harvard Law School.
Contact
Email: Eddy.Wymeersch@UGent.be
Working Papers
- G 20/ OECD Principles of Corporate Governance – Comments by Eddy Wymeersch
- Proposal for a Directive on gender equality – An initial analysis
- Commentary: The European Parliament’s Draft Directive on Corporate Due Diligence and Corporate Accountability
- CSDs and the reform of the settlement process
- Related Party Transactions under the new Belgian Company Law
- Financial regulation: its objectives and their implementation in the European Union
- Recensie: E.J. VAN PRAAG, Europees Financieel Toezicht
- Shareholder Governance
- Brexit and the provision of financial services into the EU and into the UK
- Brexit and the Equivalence of Regulation and Supervision
- The law of groups of companies according to Belgian law
- The consequences of Brexit for companies and company law
- Corporate Governance of Banks According to the CRD IV
- NOCLAR or How Accountants Deal with Suspected or Occurred Breaches of the Law
- European Financial Regulation: how to make it workable
- Shadow Banking and Systemic Risk
- The Single Supervisory Mechanism or SSM, Part One of the Banking Union
- The European Banking Union. A First Analysis
- Systemic risk in the securities activities
- Challenges to collective investment products
- A New look at the Debate about the Takeover Directive
- Risk in financial institutions: is it Managed?
- Regulation and Case law relating to Financial Derivatives
- The regulatory regime of Exchange traded funds in the European Union
- Het algemeen belang als doelstelling van de auditfunctie en van het auditberoep
- IAS – Some Longer Term Views on IFRS
- Europe’s New Financial Supervisory Bodies
- Ongoing developments in European Corporate Governance
- GREEN PAPER – Audit Policy: Lessons from the Crisis
- Studiedag Interne controle in de bank- & verzekeringssector
- Developing Regulation in the Field of Financial Market Infrastructures
- The regulation of private equity, hedge funds and state funds
- What systemic risks may concern specific players/activities such as derivatives, CCPs and Hedge Funds? How to mitigate them?
- Presentation at the International Conference of the “Giordano Dell’Amore”
- The institutional reforms of the European Financial Supervisory System, an interim report
- DEUTSCHE BÖRSE EVENT, LONDON 27 JANUARY 2010
- Shareholder after the crisis
- Aandeelhouders in de crisis
- La réglementation financière devant la mondialisation de la finance
- Third high level FEE conference on key issues in audit regulation in the EU
- Global and Regional Financial Regulation, the viewpoint of a European Securities Regulator
- Eurofi: What are the respective roles and duties of both public authorities and private sector for a timely set up of Eurozone derivatives infrastructures?
- Corporate governance after the crisis: what was broken, what needs to be mended
- Europe’s World. Has Europe failed in its combat against the financial crisis?
- The Takeover Bid Directive, light and darkness
- Standardisation by law and markets, especially in financial services
- Hoofdlijnen van het Belgische recht van de vennootschapsgroepen
- The New Belgian Law on Takeover Bids
- The Use of XBRL in the European Financial Markets
- The Law of Banking Transactions and Financial Services: Case Law Digest 1999-2007 (Overzicht van rechtspraak – Privaat bankrecht 1999-2007)
- Comparative Study of the Company Types in Selected EU States
- Corporate Governance and Financial Stability
- Shareholders in Action
- Delegation as an instrument for financial supervision
- Conflicts of Interest in Financial Services Groups (revised January 2008)
- The Corporate Governance ‘Codes of Conduct’ between State and Private Law
- Regulation and Liability of Credit Rating Agencies under Belgian Law
- Corporate Governance Codes and their Implementation
- Is a Directive on Corporate Mobility needed?
- Het financiële recht, naar Europese maatstaven herijkt
- Conflicts of Interest, especially in Asset Management
- Reforming the Second Company Law Directive
- Implementation of the Corporate Governance Codes
- Bedenkingen bij enkele recente ontwikkelingen in het financiële toezicht in Europa
- Developments in European Financial Regulation
- The transfer of the company’s seat in European company law
- De onafhankelijkheid van de revisor
- Rights of minority shareholders. Questionnaire and Guidelines for national reporters
- Übernahmeangebote und Pflichtangebote
- Company groups in the face of prudential supervision
- Bouwen, herbouwen en verbouwen in het Europese Vennootschapsrecht
- Company Law in Turmoil and the Way to Global Company Practice
- Revision of the ISD Discussion of the Second Consultation Document.
- Corporate Governance naar nieuw Belgisch recht
- Revisoren en notarissen: de synergieën optimaliseren
- Toepassingen van Corporate Governance-regelen in het Belgische Economisch recht
- Rondgang langs enkele vennootschapsrechtelijke ontwikkelingen over de periode 1964-2000
- Current Company Law Reform Initiatives in the OECD Countries- Challenges and Opportunities
- Company Law in Europe and European Company Law
- Some Recent Trends and Developments in Company Law
- Virtuele financiële dienstverlening: e-trading in effecten
- Les Défenses Anti-OPA après la treizième Directive. Commentaires sur l’article 8 de la future directive
- Overzicht Rechtspraak Privaat Bankrecht
- Some aspects of Cross border co-operation between business enterprises
- Die Harmonisierung des Gesellschaftsrechts im Zeitalter von Internet
- Financial Institutions as Members of Company Groups in the Law of the European Union
- European Company Law: The SLIM-Initiative of the EU Commission
- The Use of ICT in Company Law Matters
- Krachtlijnen inzake de ontwikkeling van het vennootschapswezen
- Les grandes orientations dans l’évolution des sociétés
- Veränderungen im Gesellschaftsrecht: Ursachen und Entwicklungslinien
- Centros: A landmark decision in European Company Law
- Company Law in the 21st Century
- Comment le droit pourrait aborder certains groupes de sociétés
- Le débat relatif au ‘Corporate Governance’
- Le gouvernement d’entreprise: faits et perspectives
- Shareholder Voting in Belgium
- The Harmonisation of Securities Regulation in Europe in the New Trading Environment
- Het directiecomité naar huidig en toekomstig Belgisch recht