This report contains a glimpse of Company Law and Corporate Governance in Venezuela, focusing in its most recent developments. Venezuela pertains to the Civil Law system and thus, Company Law is mainly comprised in a series of Statutes (laws, regulations, and other administrative rules). The Commercial Code (1955) and the Capital Market Law (1998) set up the legal framework for private and public ...
di Rosa Castro Bernieri
The paper introduces an important development in the area of corporate social responsibility in the banking sector, which has recently been accomplished in Italy. A new Italian bank (“Prossima s.p.a.”), incorporated in May 2007, articulates in its articles of association a number of innovative legal provisions that underscore its socially responsible features. To this end, deviation ...
di Marco Lamandin – Ilan Steiner