Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business

The Yearbook's principal aim is to review significant legal developments in international business and offers an important forum and point of reference to international legal practitioners.Volume 13 continues to develop the inclusion of materials which are of particular value to practitioners and advisers working within the international business sector. This 1991 volume gathers a range of considerable expertise to bear upon issues of company law, litigation and arbitration, foreign investment, joint ventures, financial services, and deregulation. The Yearbook is published under the auspices of the Centre of International Legal Studies, Austria.Contents:Piercing the Corporate Veil: The English Perspective.Rights and Liabilities of Directors and Shareholders in Belgium.The Transfer of Corporate Domicile.Representative Offices: Direct Presence of Foreign Companies in Italy.The Growing Importance in Grouping.Limited Liability Companies under Spanish Law.European Communities Merger Control for Third-Country Enterprises.Hostile Take-Overs in The Netherlands.Freezing of Assets in France.Enforcing American and Other Foreign Judgements in England.Function and Responsibility of Arbitral Institutions.Canadian Source Finance and Investment for United States Projects.Business Acquisitions in the Previous GDR.Foreign Capital Investment and Exchange Policies in Turkey.Foreign Investment in Chile.Doing Business in Korea.Doing Business in Egypt.Joint Ventures in Eastern Europe.European Communities Competition Law and Financial Services.United Kingdom Building Societies: Freedom to Compete in Europe.Legal Protection of Software in Japan.Electronic International Bank Guarantees and Letters of Credit.Progress towards Deregulation of the Aviation and Travel Industry.Know-How and the European Communities: Does the New Regime Help?Industrial Property Law in NigeriaEstate Planning for Foreign Businessmen in Germany.The Editor Dennis Campbell is Director of the Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria and international legal counsel for Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer of Boston, USA. He is assisted by a distinguished Board of Advisers drawn from leading academics and practitioners in Europe, North America and the Far East.