The European Commission recently appointed Pierre-Henri Conac, Professor of Commercial and Company Law at the University of Luxembourg, as a member of its Informal Company Law Expert Group (ICLEG). This move represents Conac’s second EU appointment as he served as a member of the Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law in 2010.

The Group will assist the Commission in the preparation of new initiatives in company law. The expertise of its members should help, in particular:

• to improve the mechanism of cross-border mergers;
• to develop initiatives on cross-border divisions and on “groups of companies”.

These issues had been identified in the Report of the Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law, which proposed a number of initiatives in the area of company law aiming at improving the framework of and removing barriers to cross-border operations of EU companies.

The Expert Group might also provide views on current directive proposals.

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More information about Professor Pierre-Henri Conac and the EU Informal Company Law Expert Group (ICLEG).

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