Edmund-Philipp SchusterEdmund-Philipp Schuster

Email: E.Schuster@lse.ac.uk
Administrative support: Bradley Barlow
Room: New Academic Building 6.30
Tel.  020-7955-7452

Edmund-Philipp Schuster joined LSE as a Lecturer in Law in 2010. Prior to joining the Law Department, he practiced corporate law with Baker & McKenzie LLP in London and Vienna. From 2004 through 2009 he worked for the Austrian Takeover Commission, serving as head of office (2006-2008) and legal consultant (2008-2009). Edmund taught company and commercial law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and at the University of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna. He also worked as a company law expert on an EU project providing pre-accession technical assistance to the Republic of Albania. Edmund holds law degrees from the University of Vienna and the LSE.

 

Research interests

Edmund’s primary research areas are corporate law and takeover regulation, including the harmonisation of company law on the European level. Recent published projects include a paper on the mandatory bid rule and an analysis of the member states’ implementation of the EU Takeover Directive. Currently, he is working on an empirical study analysing levels of private benefits of control in different jurisdictions.

   

Teaching

Selected articles
and chapters in books		  

PL Davies, EP Schuster and E van de Walle de Ghelcke, ‘The Takeover Directive as a Protectionist Tool?’ in: WG Ringe and U Bernitz (eds) Company Law and Economic Protectionism (OUP, 2010) [FORTHCOMING]

Analyses the implementation of the board neutrality rule contained in the EU Takeover Directive in all EU member states. Previously published as ECGI - Law Working paper No 141/2010.

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ECGI working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1554616

‘Efficiency in Private Control Sales - The Case for Mandatory Bids’ LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series, WPS 8-2010

This paper analyses the determinants of the efficiency costs entailed by the mandatory bid rule and alternative regulatory concepts. 

working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1610259

Contributor to: M. Straube (ed.) Wiener Kommentar zum Unternehmensgesetzbuch (Manz, 2010)

Commentary to the Austrian Commercial Code.

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J Cepani and EP Schuster, ‘Minority Shareholder Protection in Albania (Schutz der Minderheitsaktionäre in Albanien)’ in: P Doralt and M Winner (eds.), Schutz von Minderheitsaktionären in Mittel- und Osteuropa (Vienna 2010)

This chapter highlights recent developments in Albanian company law, particularly focussing on the impact of EU company law in emerging economies.

N Arnold and EP Schuster, ‘Generationenwechsel im Übernahmerecht’ in: C Ludwig and M Widinski (eds), Generationenwechsel (Vienna: Linde 2008)

This paper deals with the impact of takeover regulation on succession in listed family-dominated companies.

‘Antizipieren der Angebotspflicht nach dem neuen Übernahmerecht’ Wirtschaftsrechtliche Blätter, Vol 21 (2007), pp 353-364

T Bachner, EP Schuster and M Winner, The New Albanian Company Law (Tirana: Guttenberg 2009)

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