Articles

EBRD lawyers often write articles on legal reform and other legal subjects. The most recent publications are listed below.

• Capital markets & Corporate governance
  CorporateGovernance in Eurasia: where do we stand?  (0.3Mb)
  Butterworths Journal of international banking and financial law , December 2006 by Gian Piero Cigna. This article was first published in Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law in Issue 21.11 December 2006.
  
  Corporate Governance in Action - Effectiveness of Disclosure and Redress in South-Eastern Europe  (0.2Mb)
  Business Law International September 2006 by Gian Piero Cigna
  This article was first published in Business Law International, Vol 7 No 3, September 2006, and is reproduced by kind permission of the International Bar Association, London, UK.
  
  Corporate Governance in Action - where do we stand?  (0.2Mb)
  International Corporate Governance Review March 2006 by Gian Piero Cigna
  
  Assessing the effectiveness of corporate governance legislation  (0.3Mb)
  Law in transition Spring 2006 by Gian Piero Cigna and Luca Enriques
  
  Assessing corporate governance and securities market legislation in early transition countries  (0.1Mb)
  International Corporate Governance Review March 2005 by Gian Piero Cigna
  
  Assessing corporate governance standards in central/eastern Europe and the CIS  (0.1Mb)
  International Corporate Governance Review March 2004 by Hsianmin Chen
  
  The EBRD and corporate governance reform in central and eastern Europe and the CIS  (0.2Mb)
  The Global White Page Boardroom Adviser Series 2004 by Hsianmin Chen
  
  
• Competition
  Competing to Reform: An Analysis of the New Competition Law in Albania  (0.1Mb)
  European Competition Law Review 2004 by Irena Dajkovic (This article first appeared in the December issue (25:12) of the European Competition Law Review, published by Sweet & Maxwell).
  
  The EBRD: promoting transition through competition  (0.2Mb)
  Law in transition 2004 by Laura Campbell, Counsel and Maria Vagliasindi, Principal Economist
  
  
• Concessions
  Quality of concession legislation in early transition countries  (0.4Mb)
  Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence 2007 by Alexei Zverev
  
  EBRD Assessment of Concession Laws throughout countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union  (0.1Mb)
  IBA Annual Conference, Prague 2005 by Alexei Zverev, Bruno de Cazalet and Milica Zatezalo
  
  Laying the foundation stone: Lithuania's new concessions laws and its lessons for PPPs in central and eastern Europe and the CIS  (0.2Mb)
  Infrastructure Law Journal 2004 by Alexei Zverev, Christopher Clement-Davies and Giedrius Stasevici
  
  
• Early transition countries
  Making legal transition work in the ETCs  (0.4Mb)
  LiT online Autumn 2004 by Veronique Allarousse
  
  Striking a balance: Intergovernmental and host governmnet agreements in the context of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline project  (0.3Mb)
  LiT online Autumn 2004 by Walid Labadi and Harry Boyd-Carpenter
  
  SME finance in the early transition countries: the EBRD's experience  (0.3Mb)
  LiT online Autumn 2004 by Carine Smith, Charlotte Gray and Elvira Lefting
  
  
• Insolvency
  Caveat Emptor: What Consumers of Insolvency Law Regimes Need to Know  (2.4Mb)
  International Insolvency Review October 2005 by Mahesh Uttamchandani, Ronald Harmer, Neil Cooper and Irit Ronen-Mevorach (originally appeared in International Insolvency Review)
  
  From Sea to Shining Sea: How Serbia and South-Eastern Europe have taken the lead on Insolvency law  (8.5Mb)
  International Corporate Rescue February 2005 by Robert Courley, World Bank and Mahesh Uttamchandani
  
  Insolvency law and practice in Europe's transition economies  (0.3Mb)
  The European Restructuring and Insolvency Guide 2005/2006 by Mahesh Uttamchandani
  
  The wild east: The European Bank for Reconstuction and Development on the frontier of insolvency reform  (0.1Mb)
  International Insolvency Institute 2004 by Mahesh Uttamchandani
  
  EBRD launches major reform of Georgian insolvency law  (0.5Mb)
  Global Turnaround October 2004 by Mahesh Uttamchandani
  
  The case for debtor-in-possession financing in early transition countries: Taking a DIP in the distresses-debt pool  (0.3Mb)
  LiT online Autumn 2004 by Mahesh Uttamchandani
  
  Insolvency law and practice in Europe's transition economies  (0.8Mb)
  Butterworths Journal of international banking and financial law December 2004 by Mahesh Uttamchandani (originally appeared in Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law)
  
  
• Judicial capacity building
  
  Right to Rule; report on the World Justice Project  (0.1Mb)
  Law Society Gazette, April 2007 interview with Michel Nussbaumer
  
  
• Legal Assessments
  Assessing legal systems: a catalyst for reform  (0.4Mb)
  Beyond Transition, World Bank, April - June 2005 by Michel Nussbaumer
  
  
  
• Secured transactions
  The impact of the legal framework on the secured credit market in Poland  (1.2Mb)
  Butterworths Journal of international banking and financial law April 2006 by Frederique Dahan and John Simpson (originally appeared in Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law)
  
  Publicity of security rights - setting standards for charges registries  (0.9Mb)
  Butterworths Journal of international banking and financial law February 2005 by Frederique Dahan and John Simpson (originally appeared in Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law)
  
  Enforcing secured transactions in central and eastern Europe: an empirical study  (0.2Mb)
  Law in transition 2004 by Frederique Dahan and John Simpson
  
  Secured transactions in central and eastern Europe: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) assessment  (0.1Mb)
  Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal Winter 2004 by Frederique Dahan and John Simpson
  
  
• Telecommunications
  Transition to a competitive telecommunications market: the application of competition rules in the telecommunications sector  (0.1Mb)
  Law in transition 2004 by Paul Moffatt and Irena Dajkovic