Erik Lidman

Professor (full) of company law at Stockholm University, and co-director of the Swedish Corporate Governance Institute. My research is focused on corporate governance in listed companies and capital market regulation, generally with a Law & Economics methodology. Current research projects focuses on, among other things, market abuse and disclosure, the EU Capital Market Union, takeovers, dual class share structures, and corporate bond market regulation.

I teach in the areas of company law and stock market regulation for law students and economist on bachelor, master and PhD level, including supervision of five PhD students, and have consulted for a number of organisations and law firms, including the OECD, the World Bank and the Swedish Corporate Governance Board. I am also an editor of the Nordic Journal of Corporate Law, manager for the Corporate Governance Forum,  and board member of the Global Corporate Governance Colloquia and the Nordic Corporate Governance Network.

I also hold a number of positions outside of academia. I am an executive of the Swedish Takeover Panel, one of Swedens representatives in ESMA:s Takeover Bids Network, a member of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee, Secretary to the Nasdaq Stockholm Disciplinary Committee and to the Swedish Corporate Governance Board.