Legal capital in Europe / edited by Marcus Lutter.

Legal capital of public companies in Europe-executive summary of considerations by the expert group on "Legal Capital in Europe" / Marcus Lutter
Elements of creditor protection
Minimum capital in the system of legal capital / Horst Eidenmüller, Barbara Grunewald and Ulrich Noack
Raising cash and contributions in kind when forming a company and for capital increases / Andreas Pentz, Hans-Joachim Priester and André Scwhanna
Capital maintenance-the regime of the capital directive versus alternative systems / Rüdiger Veil
Disguised distributions and capital maintenance in European company law / Holger Fleischer
Director's duties in the vicinity of insolvency-a comparative analysis with reports from Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden / Susanne Kalss, Nikolaus Adensamer and Janine Oelkers
Grounds for insolvency and liability for delays in filing for insolvency proceedings-necessary supplement to capital protection / Karsten Schmidt
Direct liability of controlling parties (piercing the corporate veil) and related legal constellations / Hanno Merkt and Gerald Spindler
Directors liability in the member states of the European Union / Tim Drygala
Directors' disqualification and creditor protection / Heribert Hirte, Tim Lanzius and Sebastian Mock
Fixed capital under German stock corporation law and its significance for the protection of investors and minority shareholders / Jens Ekkenga and Walter Bayer
Special rules for shareholder loans: which consequences would arise for shareholder loans if the system of legal capital should be abolished? / Ulrich Huber and Mathias Habersack
Claw-back rules and creditors' protection / Christoph G. Paulus
The future of creditor protection through capital maintenance rules in European company law-an economic perspective / Christoph Kuhner
Improving creditor protection through IFRS reporting and solvency tests / Bernhard Pellens and Thorsten Sellhorn
Does contract suffice to protect the creditors of a company and their interests? / Peter Mankowski
Single country reports
England / Eva Micheler
Creditor protection through insolvency law in England / Thomas Bachner
Working group on the share capital in Europe- French answers to the questionnaire / Isabelle Urbain-Parléani
Legal capital rules in Italian company law and the EU perspective / Massimo Miola
Capital and capital protection in the Netherlands: a doctrine in flux / Harm-Jan de Kluiver and Stephan F.G. Rammeloo
Capital protection in Spanish company law / José Miguel Embid Irujo
A report on selected aspects of legal capital under Polish Code of Commercial Companies / Andrzej Kidyba, Stanisław Sołtysiński, and Andrzej Szumánski
Capital requirements in United States corporation law / Richard A. Booth
Life without legal capital: lessons from American law / Andreas Engert.