In this paper, we examine the inconclusive debate on regulatory competition in Europe. We demonstrate that the recent expansion in the EU company law has created archetypal underpinning for formation of regulatory competition: the ground-breaking "triptych" of the ECJ on Centros, Überseering,...

The purpose of this paper consists of giving an overview of the way company laws in some European states have been dealingwith the dividing line between closely held companies limited by shares, and those that have gone public or have widely distributed shares. It analyses whether a case can be...