Common Ownership from a Transatlantic Perspective. Corporate Governance and Competition Law in the US and the EU

The rise of institutional investors has transformed the landscape of global capital markets. As investment becomes more intermediated and diversified, the ownership structures of corporations have begun to intertwine, often in unexpected ways. Competing firms now share investors, and the resulting overlapping financial interests have led to a phenomenon known as ‘common ownership’. Over the past decade, common ownership has provoked one of the most vibrant and controversial debates at the intersection of finance, corporate governance, and competition law. Do common owners weaken competition among rival firms? Are institutional investors exerting hidden influence across markets? Or are these concerns exaggerated and based on fragile theoretical and empirical ground? Using a doctrinal, primarily comparative approach, enriched by interdisciplinary insights, the author organises her work around such elements as the following: how the ‘financialisation’ of the economy has contributed to the creation of structural links between competing companies, or even across value chains, due to diversified institutional investment; how these structural links may affect the competitive incentives…

Издательство

Kluwer Law International B.V.

Год

2026

Страниц

311

Язык

английский

ISBN

9789403517599