Andreas Cahn
Law and Finance
Frankfurt University
Germany
Biography
Andreas Cahn is a German law scholar . Cahn studied law at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of California, Berkeley . He was promoted in Frankfurt am Main and habilitated at Hans-Joachim Mertens . From 1996 to 2002 he was a full professor of Civil Law, Commercial and Corporate Law at the University of Mannheim . Cahn has been teaching at the Goethe University since 2002 as Professor of Civil Law and Business Law . He is Managing Director of the Institute for Law and Finance (ILF) at the Goethe-University's House of Finance and lecturer at the Goethe Business School.
Research Interest
His main areas of work are corporate law, corporate governance, capital market law, capital preservation, corporate law, corporate finance and legal comparisons.
Publications
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Obligations of the Board of Managing Directors in the case of authorized capital with exclusion of subscription rights, ZHR 163 (1999), 554-593.
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The liability of the managing director of the company for the payment of social security contributions - discussion of the decision BGH WM 1997, 577 -, ZGR 1998, 367-385.
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Competition Prohibition and Covert Profit Distribution in the GmbH Group, in: Order for Theodor Heinsius, 1991, Berlin / New York, S.545-574, jointly with Prof. Dr. H.-J. Mertens.
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Problems of the limitation of claims for claims on credit business, ZIP 1986, 416-419, together with RA. Dr. S. Farrenkopf.
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The jurisprudence of the BGH regarding the so-called capital-replacing shareholder loans at the GmbH and §§ 30 f. GmbH - Gesetz, AG 1983, 151-156, together with RA. S. Farrenkopf.
