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dc.contributor.authorVICENTE, Lécia
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-18T14:21:19Z
dc.date.available2014-07-21T00:00:03Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationFlorence : European University Institute, 2014en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/32211
dc.descriptionDefence date: 11 June 2014en
dc.descriptionExamining Board: Professor Hans-W. Micklitz (EUI/ Supervisor); Professor Stefan Grundmann (EUI); Professor Martin Gelter (Fordham University Law School / External Supervisor); Professor Luca Enriques (LUISS/University of Oxford).en
dc.descriptionAn Annex containing data on which the thesis is based is available upon request to the author (lecia.vicente@gmail.com).
dc.description.abstractToward the Liberalization of Private Limited Companies – A comparative study of the laws of Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States and its interplay with EU law’, I try to shed light on the dynamics of private limited liability companies (PLLCs), and how they can be legally designed to become efficient units of economic development in Europe and the United States. I take a social sciences approach to the legal question: How does the design of clauses establishing restrictions on transfer of shares of private limited liability companies affect investment made in these companies and their consequent development? To answer this question, I develop two parallel lines of investigation. First, I undertake an embedded historical study to trace the evolutionary patterns of PLLCs in six countries. Furthermore, I longitudinally track the standards of behavior of market agents in the selected jurisdictions. Second, I develop my legal research by looking at an anomaly regarding the transfer of shares and changes in the ownership structure of these business organizations. Transfer of shares in PLLCs is, for the most part, regulated by default rules which impose restrictions on transfers. Typically, the parties do not contract around these default rules. The anomaly lies in the fact that, even though shareholders of these companies do not opt out of these rules, shareholders often ignore them and/or breach them at a later stage.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUIen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLAWen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhD Thesisen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.subject.lcshCorporation lawen
dc.subject.lcshBusiness enterprises -- Law and legislationen
dc.subject.lcshPrivate companiesen
dc.subject.lcshLimited liabilityen
dc.titleThe requirement of consent for the transfer of shares and freedoms of movement : toward the liberalization of private limited liability companies : a comparative study of the laws of Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States and its interplay with EU lawen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.identifier.doi10.2870/15421
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