Lawmakers from all over the world are increasingly looking at new ways to foster socially and environmentally responsible conduct on the part of corporations and other for-profit enterprises. Among the available tools are organizational forms that aim at pursuing social missions while...

In this paper, we provide an overview of the Italian legislation on interlocking directorates and its enforcement in the last decade. Italy is the only EU Member State to have introduced a specific anti-interlocking provision aimed at promoting competition in the banking, insurance, and...

National and international lawmakers are increasingly focusing on sustainability reporting as a way to foster socially and environmentally responsible corporate conduct. Within the European Union, Directive 2014/95/EU has introduced reporting obligations for certain large enterprises on a...

Significant differences persist among the European Union and the United States in the regulation of issuers’ disclosure obligations on material corporate information. Lawmakers on either side of the Atlantic strive to pursue the same goals of market transparency and efficiency. However, in the...