Hans De Wulf, Lientje Van den Steen

Enkele IPR-problemen uit het economisch recht: het mogelijke conflict tussen lex concursus en lex societatis, de effecten op rekening, en Europees getinte class actions in de VS

WP 2009-06

This paper (in Dutch) gives an overview of some recent developments in conflict of laws aspects of economic law. The three main topics are the insolvency of cross- border corporate groups, the law applicable to book entry securities and the possibility of non-Americans to initiate securities class actions against non-American defendants before US courts (including so-called F-cubed actions). The paper will be published in the conference volume of the Cyclus Delva 2008-2009, to be published by Kluwer Belgium in December 2009.