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Should We Trust The Gatekeepers? Auditors’ And Lawyers’ Liability For Clients’ Misconduct, Fernando Gómez, Juan-José Ganuza
Should We Trust The Gatekeepers? Auditors’ And Lawyers’ Liability For Clients’ Misconduct, Fernando Gómez, Juan-José Ganuza
Fernando Gómez Pomar
Should We Trust the Gatekeepers? Juan-José Ganuza Fernando Gómez Pomar 13/10/2005 Auditors’ and Lawyers’ Liability for Clients’ Misconduct In the aftermath of the corporate scandals that reached headlines worldwide in the first years of this decade (Enron, Worldcom, Parmalat) investors, and the general public, reacted with surprise at first, and then with indignation. Politicians, regulators, and lawmakers felt the pressure to increase and strengthen the range of measures to combat corporate misconduct and fraud. Probably the most ambitious and extensive legislative reaction to the problem, and the best-known, at any rate, has been the American Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002. Some of …
European Contract Law And Economic Welfare: A View From Law And Economics, Fernando Gómez
European Contract Law And Economic Welfare: A View From Law And Economics, Fernando Gómez
Fernando Gómez Pomar
The current enterprise of designing and making politically feasible a European Contract Law requires more ambitious goals than just introducing technical improvements in the acquis and smoothing the functioning of the internal market. The paper presents a position of the substantive goals of European Contract Law, from an economic approach to legal rules and institutions, linked to the promotion of the joint economic welfare of the contracting parties. In this respect, economic thinking tends to be more sceptical concerning the ability of Contract Law to bring about wealth redistribution policies than most legal scholars are. In the paper, the optimal …
La Eficacia Del Deber De Pasividad De Los Administradores Sociales En Presencia De Una Opa: Mecanismos Privados Frente A Públicos, Fernando Gómez
La Eficacia Del Deber De Pasividad De Los Administradores Sociales En Presencia De Una Opa: Mecanismos Privados Frente A Públicos, Fernando Gómez
Fernando Gómez Pomar
El éxito o fracaso de una opa está fuertemente condicionado por la actitud de los administradores de la sociedad target. Su activismo contra la opa, o su pasividad, suelen ser factores claves en el resultado final. La Directiva de opas y el Derecho español -ambos por inspiración del Derecho inglés- sujetan a los administradores a un deber de pasividad, fuertemente contestado, sin embargo, en distintos países y por amplios sectores de la literatura. En este trabajo se defiende que el deber de pasividad constituye -como regla general dispositiva, excepcionable singularmente por los accionistas de la sociedad target- una pieza difícilmente …