Law

Moritz Renner, Torsten Kindt

Internationales Gesellschaftsrecht und Investitionsschutzrecht

Volume 86 () / Issue 4, pp. 787-840 (54)
Published 11.10.2022

Conflict of Corporate Laws and International Investment Law. – The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU has revived the debate on the conflict of corporate laws. Much attention has recently been given to the new generation of EU free trade agreements, such as the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, but their impact on conflicts in the field of corporate law remains unclear. This article proposes that the conflict-of-law effects of these agreements can be fully understood only in the light of their common background in international investment law. Building upon an analysis of the role of treaties in Germany’s conflict-of-law system and of the multiple intersections between the conflict of corporate laws and international investment law in general, the article demonstrates that the newest EU free trade agreements imply in particular the application of a restricted conflict-of-law theory of incorporation on foreign corporations originating from the respective signatory states. While the agreements’ effects on conflicts in the corporate law arena are not as far reaching as those of the EU’s freedom of establishment, they nevertheless further narrow the remaining scope of application of the traditional seat theory underlying Germany’s autonomous rules on conflicts vis-à-vis corporate law.
Authors/Editors

Moritz Renner Geboren 1981; Studium der Rechtswissenschaften in Berlin, Padua und New York; 2010 Promotion (Bremen); Referendariat am Kammergericht; 2012–17 Lichtenberg-Professor für Transnationales Wirtschaftsrecht und Theorie des Wirtschaftsrechts an der Universität Bremen; seit 2017 Professor für Bürgerliches Recht, Internationales und Europäisches Wirtschaftsrecht an der Universität Mannheim.

Torsten Kindt Geboren 1987; Studium der Rechtswissenschaft an den Universitäten Heidelberg und Cambridge; 2015 Erste juristische Staatsprüfung; Referendariat in Heidelberg, Frankfurt a. M., Speyer und Karlsruhe; 2017 Zweite juristische Staatsprüfung; 2021 LL.M. (Stanford); 2022 Promotion (Mannheim); Akademischer Rat a. Z. und Habilitand am Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht, Internationales und Europäisches Wirtschaftsrecht der Universität Mannheim.
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