The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Thu, 07 May 2026 11:32:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Conflict of Interest, Secrecy and Insider Information of Directors – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Conflict of Interest, Secrecy and Insider Information of Directors https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/12/28/conflict-of-interest-secrecy-and-insider-information-of-directors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conflict-of-interest-secrecy-and-insider-information-of-directors https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/12/28/conflict-of-interest-secrecy-and-insider-information-of-directors/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:05:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=37458?d=20150105104209EST Posted by June Rhee, Co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Friday, December 28, 2012
Editor's Note:

The following post comes to us from Klaus J. Hopt, a professor and director (emeritus) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, in Hamburg and was advisor inter alia for the European Commission, the German legislator and the Ministries of Finance and of Justice.

This article concentrates on conflict of interest, secrecy and insider information of corporate directors in a functional and comparative way. The main concepts are loans and credit to directors, self-dealing, competition with the company, corporate opportunities, wrongful profiting from position and remuneration. Prevention techniques, remedies and enforcement are also in the focus. The main jurisdictions dealt with are the European Union, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK, but references to other countries are made where appropriate.

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