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Erik Lidman

Senior Lecturer

Department of Law
Telephone
+46 762-38 55 00
Mail
erik.lidman@law.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
411 24 Göteborg
Room number
C420
Postal address
Box 650
405 30 Göteborg

Deputy Head of Department

Department of Law
Telephone
+46 762-38 55 00
Mail
erik.lidman@law.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 650
40530 Göteborg

About Erik Lidman

Associate Professor (docent) of company law at the Department of Law at Gothenburg University as well as the Stockholm School of Economics. My research is focused on corporate governance in listed companies and capital market regulation, generally with a law and economics methodology. Current research projects focuses on, among other things, takeovers, dual class share structures, corporate bond regulation and the purpose of the corporation.

I teach in the areas of company law and stock market regulation for law students and economist on bachelor, master and PhD level, and have consulted for a number of organisations and law firms, including the OECD, the World Bank and the . I am also an editor of the and manager for the .

In addition to my academic work, I am the Rapporteur to the , one of Swedens representatives in ESMA:s Takeover Bids Network, Secretary to the Nasdaq Stockholm Disciplinary Committee and Secretary to the .

Selected publications

London Allowing dual class Premium listings: A Swedish comment (2021).

Dual class Premium listings: no reason for the reservations? (2021).

The purpose of the corporation: a contractarian perspective (2021).

Informational equal treatment of shareholders according to the Swedish Companies Act (2021).

Festschrift in Honour of Rolf Skog (editor, 2021).

Controlling shareholders and takeover regulation. Equal treatment and the effects on corporate governance (2020).

Decisions from the Nasdaq Stockholm disciplinary committee (2020).

Say on pay and the detail of disclosure of remuneration (2019).