Conference in Honour of Prof. Dr. Ünal Tekinalp’s 80th Birthday

Comparative Corporate Group Law

Date: October 9, 2015
Time: 8.30-17.30 
Place: Intercontinental Hotel, Istanbul

The conference is organized by İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law.

PROGRAM

08.30-09.00    Registration

09.00-09.30    Opening Speeches
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Okutan Nilsson (Director, İstanbul Bilgi University Intellectual Property Law Research Center)
Prof. Dr. Turgut Tarhanlı (Dean, İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law)

1st SESSION - COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW OF CORPORATE GROUP LAW
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Turgut Tarhanlı (Dean, İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law)

09.30-10.00    Groups of Companies: Agency Problems, Regulatory Models and Legal Strategies in Comparative Law
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult Klaus J. Hopt (Max Planck Institute of Comparative and International Private Law)

10.00-10.30    The Turkish Law Approach to Groups of Companies
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Okutan Nilsson (İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law)

10.30-10.45    Q&A Session

10.45-11.15    Coffee Break

2nd SESSION - EVALUATION OF TURKISH CORPORATE GROUP LAW FROM A COMPARATIVE LAW PERSPECTIVE
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Ersin Çamoğlu (Fatih Sultan Mehmet University Faculty of Law; Emeritus Professor of İstanbul University Faculty of Law)

11.15-11.45    Evaluation of Turkish Corporate Group Law from a German Law Perspective
Prof. Dr. Karsten Schmidt (Bucerius Law Faculty, Hamburg)

11.45-12.15    Liability for Breach of Trust in Corporate Groups in Swiss and Turkish Laws
Prof. Dr. Roland von Büren (Emeritus Professor, University of Bern Faculty of Law)

12.15-12.30    Q&A Session

12.30-13.45    Lunch

3rd SESSION - CORPORATE GROUP LAW IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Ülgen (Emeritus Professor, İstanbul University Faculty of Law; Member of Turkish Commercial Code Committee)

13.45-14.15    Trends and Developments in Europe on Corporate Groups
Prof. Dr. Pierre Henri Conac (University of Luxemburg, Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance)

14.15-14.45    Financial Services Groups under EU Law
Prof. Dr. Jens Binder (Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Faculty of Law)

14.45-15.00    Q&A Session

15.00-15.30    Coffee Break

4th SESSION - AN INTERDISIPLINARY APPROACH - CORPORATE GROUPS IN THE CONTEXT OF OTHER LEGAL FIELDS
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Yeşim Atamer (İstanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Law)

15.30-16.00    Corporate Groups in the Context of Capital Market Law
Prof. Dr. Hamdi Yasaman (Okan University Faculty of Law; Member of Turkish Commercial Code Committee)

16.00-16.30    Corporate Group Law Provisions from the Perspective of Maritime and Insurance Laws
Prof. Dr. Kerim Atamer (Member of Turkish Commercial Code Committee)

16.30-16.45    Q&A Session

16.45-17.30    CLOSING ADDRESS AND CEREMONY
Prof. Dr. Oğuz İmregün (Emeritus Professor, İstanbul University Faculty of Law)
Prof. Dr. Ünal Tekinalp (Emeritus Professor, İstanbul University Faculty of Law; Chairman of Turkish Commercial Code Committee)

The conference will be held in English and Turkish. Simultaneous translation will be provided. Registration is required due to limited capacity.

For registration please contact: utkonferans@bilgi.edu.tr or  444 0 428 until 5 October 2015.