11th ECFR Symposium (2016)

Program of the 11th ECFR Symposium

on

The European Capital Markets Union (CMU)
and other Current Developments
 

Conference Dinner (September 29, 2016)
Scandic Hotel Copenhagen Restaurant

Welcome Addresses

Heribert Hirte
(Professor, University of Hamburg, Member of the Deutscher Bundestag, Co- logne/Hamburg/Berlin, Germany)

Dinner Speech

Jacob Graff Nielsen
(Dean, Professor, University of Copenhagen)
 

Symposium (September 30, 2016) 
Opening remarks

Heribert Hirte
(Professor, University of Hamburg, Member of the Deutscher Bundestag, Co- logne/Hamburg/Berlin, Germany)

Søren Pind
(Minister of Justice, MP, Copenhagen, Denmark)

Morning Session I: The Capital Markets Union (CMU)
President: Maarten Kroeze (Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Nether- lands)

Capital Markets Union - one year on from the Action Plan 
(Miriam Parmentier, Dr., LL.M. (Columbia), Seconded National Expert, European Commission, Directorate General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, Brussels, Belgium)

The Effects of a Brexit on European Company and Capital Markets Law
(N.N.)

Part I: Improving Access to Finance

The Reform of the Prospectus Regulation
(Luca Enriques, Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law, Faculty of Law, Univer- sity of Oxford, England)

Facilitating SME Funding
(Pierre Schammo, Dr, Reader in Law, Durham University, School of Law, England)

– Morning break –

Morning Session II: The Capital Markets Union (CMU)

Part II: Developing and Diversifying the Supply of Funding
President: Holger Fleischer, Professor, Max-Planck Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg, Germany

The Cost of Capital - The Normative Foundation of Corporate Law?
 (Felix Steffek, Dr. LLM (Cantab), University Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, England)

Comment on 'The Cost of Capital - The Normative Foundation of Corporate Law'
(Sarah Paterson, Assistant Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England)

Collective Investments under the CMUAP - From AIFMD over ELTIFR to FinTech
(Dirk Zetzsche, Professor, ADA Chair in Financial Law and Inclusive Finance, Uni- versity of Luxemburg, Luxemburg)

Innovative Market Based Financing under the Capital Markets Union Action Plan
(Christoph Kumpan, Professor, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany)

– Lunch break –
(Walking Lunch in the Main Building)

Afternoon Session I: The Capital Markets Union (CMU)
Part III: Improving Market Effectiveness – Intermediaries, Infra- structures, and the Broader Legal Framework
President: Pierre-Henri Conac, Professor, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg)

The Upcoming Harmonization of Insolvency Law as Part of the Capital Markets Union
(Sebastian Mock, Assistant Professor, Hamburg, Germany & Lorenzo Stanghellini, Professor, University of Firenze, Florence, Italy)

The Case Law on Market Abuse - Where Do We Stand With MAR? 
(Jesper Lau Hansen, Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Sanctions in European Capital Market Law
(Nis Jul Clausen, Professor, Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark)

– Afternoon break –

Afternoon Session II: SUP, SPE and Beyond (the EMCA Project)
President: Marco Ventoruzzo
(Professor, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy and Penn State Dickinson School of Law, USA, Scientific Member Max Planck Institute, Luxembourg)

The Proposal of the Directive on the Single-Member Private Limited Liability Company (SUP) - The Current State of Discussion
 (Pierre-Henri Conac, Professor, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg)

The European Model Company Act (EMCA) - An Update of the Discus- sion
(Paul Krüger Andersen, Professor, Chairman, EMCA Group, Aarhus University, Busi- ness and Social Sciences, Department of Law, Denmark)