Intern
Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht, Deutsches und Europäisches Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht

1st ECFR Symposium (2006)

Program of the 1st ECFR Symposium

by 

European Company and Financial Law Review

Published by
Holger Fleischer Wulf Goette Heribert Hirte Peter Hommelhoff Klaus J. Hopt
Gerd Krieger Hanno Merkt Hans-Joachim Priester
in cooperation with
Pierre-Henri Conac Paul Davies Guido Ferrarini José M. Embid Irujo Susanne
Kalss Jonathan Rickford Isabelle Urbain-Parleani

Cross-border Company Transactions

1st ECFR Symposium 2006

at the Università Bocconi, Milan

Thursday, October 12th, 2006, 20.00

Dinner at the Bocconi Restaurant (at participants´ expense)

Welcome of the participants
(Prof. Heribert Hirte, Hamburg, Milan)

Friday, October 13th, 2006, 9.00

Opening of the Conference
(Rektor Prof. Peter Hommelhoff, Universität Heidelberg;
Vice-Dean Prof. Piergaetano Marchetti, Università Bocconi, Milan)

Cross-border mergers (including the set up of a SE)

(Rechtsanwalt Christian Decher, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Frankfurt/Main;
RAA Maria Doralt, Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati (CHSH),Vienna)

Cross border takeovers

(Ass. Prof. Pierre-Henri Conac, University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne);

Prof. Guido Ferrarini, Genova)

– lunch break (13.00.– 14.30) –

Seat transfer across the border

(Prof. Marco Ventoruzzo, Università Bocconi, Milan)

Cross border negotiated deals

(Prof. Heike Schweitzer, EUI, Florence;

Hubert Segain, Avocat à la Cour/Attorney-at-Law, Herbert Smith LLP, Paris; Christopher
C. King, Attorney-at-law, Attorney-at-Law/Rechtsanwalt/Solicitor and General Counsel
Hunter Douglas Management AG, Rotterdam/Lucerne)

Conclusion remarks
(Prof. Klaus J. Hopt, Hamburg)

End of the conference: 18.00 approximately