Ed. S. Mock, K. Csach and B. Havel, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018, 679 pages (in the following referred to as »the International Handbook«).
Shareholders’ agreements are an important type of contracts, which gives rise to many intricate questions in the border zone between inter alia corporate law and contract law. To a considerable extent the rules and principles governing these agreements vary between different national legal systems. This is unfortunate since the variations impose risks and thus create costs especially for international investments in equity. Moreover, the applicable norms are often not codified and ther ...