Book Launch for Prospectus Liability in Europe and Beyond, edited by Danny Busch and Matthias Lehmann
Professor Danny Busch: Professor of Financial Law and Founding Director of the Financial Law Centre, Radboud University, Nijmegen; Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, and Fellow of the Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford
Professor Matthias Lehmann: Professor of Private Law, Private International and Comparative Law, University of Vienna, Professor of European Business Law, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Professor Gerard McMeel KC: Professor of Commercial Law and Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation, University of Reading; Door Tenant at Quadrant Chambers, London
Prospectus Liability in Europe and Beyond edited by Professor Danny Busch and Professor Matthias Lehmann
On Thursday 20 November 2025 the book ‘Prospectus Liability in Europe and Beyond’, published by Oxford University Press, will be launched. This is an in-person event organised by the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College and The Radboud Business Law Institute at Radboud University, Nijmegen.
Companies in the European Union must publish a prospectus that complies with the detailed information requirements under the Prospectus Regulation before they can offer securities to the investing public.
However, the regulation does not feature uniform liability rules, and the applicable national rules vary from one Member State to another. This hinders the development of fully integrated European capital markets.
Through a comparative investigation into the rules in selected EU Member States (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Ireland), and in selected non-EU jurisdictions (the UK, Switzerland, the US, Hong Kong, and Singapore), this book aims to show the necessity and feasibility of uniformising prospectus liability rules.
The book sets out a concrete blueprint for uniform prospectus liability rules on the European level.
PROGRAMME
1:30 Welcome and introduction Professor Kristin van Zwieten (Chair of Sessions) Clifford Chance Professor of Law and Finance; Gullifer Fellow and Tutor, Harris Manchester College; Director of the Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford
A CONCRETE BLUEPRINT FOR UNIFORM PROSPECTUS LIABILITY RULES IN EUROPE
1:45 Part I Professor Danny Busch Professor of Financial Law and Founding Director of the Financial Law Centre, Radboud University, Nijmegen; Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, and Fellow of the Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford
2:15 Part II
Professor Matthias Lehmann
Professor of Private Law, Private International and Comparative Law, University of Vienna, Professor of European Business Law, Radboud University, Nijmegen
2.45 Comments
UK LAW PERSPECTIVE
3.15 PROSPECTUS LIABILITY RULES IN THE UK
Professor Gerard McMeel KC
Professor of Commercial Law and Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation, University of Reading; Door Tenant at Quadrant Chambers, London
3.45 Comments
Professor Simon Gleeson
Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, and Fellow of the Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, Visiting Professor, University of Oxford
4.15 Closing remarks by Professor Kristin van Zwieten
4.30 Drinks