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Online Webinar | Independent Expert Panel on Corporate Re-domiciliation
02 December 2024, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
This online webinar is organised by the UCL Centre for Ethics and Law.
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About this event
Re-domiciliation allows a company incorporated in one jurisdiction to become incorporated into another, whilst retaining its legal personality. A cost efficient and flexible re-domiciliation regime can therefore help the overall attractiveness of a jurisdiction as a destination of choice for business.
Following a public consultation, the Independent Expert Panel on Corporate Re-domiciliation (the ‘Panel’) was established to develop a specific proposal that would enable companies to re-domicile in the UK. During this webinar the Panel’s Chair, Professor Vanessa Knapp OBE, will discuss the Panel’s recommendation for a two-way re-domiciliation regime and how this would work in practice. Dr Edmund Schuster will provide comments on the proposals.
The webinar is a timely opportunity for stakeholders to consider the Panel’s recommendations, and how they might impact them, ahead of a further consultation that will be opened once the Government has released more detailed proposals.
The report of the UK independent expert panel can be found here.
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Speakers:
Professor Vanessa Knapp OBE (Harris Manchester College)
Dr Edmund Schuster (LSE)
Chair: Dr Anna Donovan (UCL Laws)
- About the Speakers
Professor Vanessa Knapp OBE is a Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College Oxford, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London and an Honorary Professor in the Brunel Law School, Brunel University London. She is the UK representative on the company law committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe. She was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP for many years. She was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2007 for services to corporate law.
Edmund Schuster is an Associate Professor of corporate law at the LSE. His research focuses on corporate law, law and finance, takeover regulation, as well as the economic analysis of law. He has prepared studies for the European Commission on the reform of corporate governance and private international law. In 2014, Edmund was awarded the Modern Law Review Wedderburn Prize for his article on the law and economics of the mandatory bid rule.
Edmund studied law at the University of Vienna and at the LSE. Prior to joining LSE, Edmund practiced corporate law in London and Vienna, and was head of office at the Austrian Takeover Commission. Alongside his academic work, Edmund regularly advises the M&A team of Baker & McKenzie Austria.
- About the Chair
Anna Donovan is an Associate Professor of corporate law at UCL Faculty of Laws and is the Director of the UCL Centre for Ethics and Law.
Anna’s work sits at the intersection of corporate law and behaviour, exploring how institutional rules shape human behaviour across legal fields including corruption, ethics and technology. Her recent monograph, Reconceptualising Corporate Compliance, was joint runner up for the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship and she co-edits Pettet, Lowry and Reisberg’s Company Law. Anna was previously the Vice Dean (Innovation) at the Faculty of Laws. She is a member of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and a former panel member of LawtechUK.
Prior to academia Anna was a corporate solicitor in the City and she is also admitted as an attorney in New York.
- About the Centre
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