Global business law and regulations

Global business law and regulations Order Description Global Business Law & Regulation (GBL&R) Research Topics (2013-14) Choose one topic from the following as Essay (6000 words) Choose another different One for Portfolio (2000 words) Note: You cannot choose the two topics under the same headings Pierce the Corporate Veil 1. Parental Liability under the EU Competition Law 2. Principle of Rebuttable Presumption: Parental Liability 3. Due Diligence in M&As in the context of Anti-Bribery Laws 4. Piercing the Corporate Veil and Successor Liability 5. Separate Legal Entity for the Purpose of Corporate Manslaughter Act 6. Auditors’ Liability in One-Man Company Shareholder Remedies 1. Demand Futility 2. Shareholder Litigation involving M&As 3. Multiple Derivative Actions Anti-bribery Laws 1. Anti-Corruption Due Diligence for Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions (M&As) 2. Is the practice of bribing public officials ever justified from an economic or ethical point of view? Apart from collapsing share price and shareholder lawsuits, what are some of the other possible consequences of bribing foreign officials? 3. When will a successor be liable for the acts of an acquired company? Global Antitrust Litigation 1. Antitrust immunity under the state-action exemption 2. Foreign state compulsion as a defence in the EU anti-competition regime 3. The foreign compulsion defence is applicable when a foreign party is placed between the rock of its own local law and the hard place of foreign law. 4. RPM is per se illegal or subject to the rule of reason Multinational Companies and Human Rights 1. Human Rights Obligations of Private Actors 2. The Governance Racism: The Illegitimacy of Multinationals’ Double Standards Arbitration 1. Contrasting the English and French Court Decisions in Dallah v Pakistan National Security Foreign involvement in the Critical National Infrastructure: The Implications for National Security Cross-Border Insolvency 1. Debtor Migrations 2. A debtor’s COMI is transferred to another EU Member State in order to take advantage of a more favourable insolvency regime. Securities Fraud Litigation 1. The aiding and abetting liability