TRANSPARENCY OF STOCK

CORPORATIONS IN EUROPE
Rationales, Limitations and Perspectives

Friday, May 11, 2018 Session 3: LIMITS OF TRANSPARENCY

Session Chair: Ulrich Torggler, Prof., University of Vienna
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome Address
16:00 - 18:00 Transparency of stock corporations and personal data protection,
Vassilios Tountopoulos, Prof., University of the Aegean
Session 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF TRANSPARENCY AND CORPORATE LAW Transparency of stock corporations and trade secret protection,
Michael Marinos, Prof., University of Thrace
Session Chair: Evanghelos Perakis, Prof. Em., University of Athens
Transparency under EU competition law,
09:30 - 11:30 Economics of transparency in stock corporations, Alexandra Mikroulea, Assoc. Prof., University of Athens
Nicholas Georgakopoulos, Prof., University of Indiana Limits of transparency and public interest – The financial sector?
Access to information in stock corporations – Corporate Registries, Christos Hadjiemmanuil, Prof., University of Piraeus and LSE
Karsten Engsig Sørensen, Prof., University of Aarhus
Disclosure through minority rights in stock corporations,
Corrado Malberti, Prof., University of Trento
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Disclosure of corporate governance by codices, Session 4: DEVELOPMENTS IN ACCOUNTING, TAX AND AML LAW
Gregor Bachmann, Prof., Humboldt University of Berlin Session Chair: Vassilios Tountopoulos, Prof., University of the Aegean

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:30 Non-financial reporting (CSR) and Country-by-country reporting (CbCR),
Brenda Hannigan, Prof., University of Southampton
Session 2: EVOLUTION OF DISCLOSURE IN EUROPEAN CAPITAL MARKETS LAW Ownership disclosure in AML Law,
Konstantinos Sergakis, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow
Session Chair: Christos Hadjiemmanuil, Prof., University of Piraeus and LSE
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 - 14:30 Disclosure of inside information,
Jennifer Payne, Prof., University of Oxford
Session 5: ENFORCEMENT
Disclosure of major holdings,
Alain Pietrancosta, Prof., University of Paris I (Sorbonne Law School) Session Chair: Rüdiger Veil, Prof., University of Munich

Transparency of related party transactions, 12:00 - 14:00 Public enforcement strategies of transparency,
Theodoros Katsas, Lecturer, University of Thrace Axel Kämmerer, Prof., Bucerius Law School
Climate-related financial disclosure, Private enforcement of transparency – Harmonisation, the road ahead?
Rüdiger Veil, Prof., University of Munich Paolo Giudici, Prof., University of Bozen – Bolzano
Proxy advisors and disclosure of conflicts of interest, Piercing the corporate veil – The case of shipping companies,
Ulrich Torggler, Prof., University of Vienna Victoria Athanasopoulou, Asst. Prof., University of the Aegean
Towards the end of anonymity in sociétés anonymes?
14:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break Evanghelos Perakis, Prof. Em., University of Athens

Discussion