On Monday, December 13, 2010, 07:30 pm at Hörsaal Schenkenstraße (Juridicum II), Schenkenstraße 8-10, 1010 Vienna,  Ass.-Prof. Mag. Maxim Bashkatov will analyse the current reforms on securities law in Russia. He was involved in the working group »Conception of the development of legislation on securities and financial transactions« and provides with insights to the work of the group. Professor Bashkatov will inter alia focus on notion of securities in the Russian Civil Code, the application of rules on documentary securities for non-documentary securities in Russian civil legislation and practice of commercial courts. Furthermore, Mag.a Ekaterina Galkova will outline the regulations concerning Initial Public Offers in the Russian Federation. The range of questions to be addressed include definition and aim of IPO, IPO procedure under Russian securities law, underwriting agreement, Greenshoe option,  IPO futures and Perspectives of global IPO market.

Within the institutional framework of the European Union the relationship between the national legal systems and Union law is a very complex topic. The supremacy of Union law, as it was developed by the European Court of Justice, could stand in conflict with Art 117 of the Italian constitution, which regulates the legislative power of the state and the regions and includes the fundamental rights as central issue. The main players in this matter are the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human rights and the national Constitutional Courts. On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 06:30 pm at Juridicum – Dachgeschoss, Schottenbastei 10-16, 1010 Vienna, Professor Dr. Onofrio Troiano (Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’Università degli Studi di Foggia, Italy) will discuss the relationship between those key players using the example of Italy. (more…)