Erik Lidman

About me

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.

 

Selected publications
(updated 2025-08-01)

In English

• Multiple Voting Rights and Takeovers, in 20 Years with the Takeover Directive, Cambridge University Press (w. Andrés Recaldé). Forthcoming, 2025.
• The Swedish Equity Market – Institutional Frameworks and Trends, OECD Capital Market Series 2025. (w. Serdar Celik et al.).
• What Constitutes Inside Information for a Corporate Bond Issuer?, European Company and Financial Law Review 2025, vol. 22(2), p. 214–240. 
• Corporate Governance and Short-Termism, An In-depth Analysis of Swedish Data, Nordic Journal of Company law (Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret) 2024 no. 2/3 p. 113. (w. Martin Carlsson-Wall et al.).
• Country Report Sweden, in Sustainable Finance in the EU, Mohr Siebeck 2024.
• The Swedish Corporate Bond Market: Challenges and Policy Recommendations, OECD Capital Market Series 2024. (w. Serdar Celik et al.)
• The EU Framework on ESG, in The Research Handbook on ESG, Edward Elgar, 2024.
• The Swedish Corporate Bond market and Bondholder Rights. OECD Capital market Series 2022. (w. Serdar Celik et al.)
• London Allowing dual class Premium listings: A Swedish comment, Journal of Corporate Law Studies 2021/22.
• Dual class Premium listings: no reason for the reservations?, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2021.
• The Purpose of the Corporation: a Contractarian Perspective, in Festschrift in Honour of Rolf Skog, Norstedts Juridik/Wolters Kluver 2021.
• Editor, Festschrift in Honour of Rolf Skog, Norstedts Juridik/Wolters Kluver 2021.
• Say on pay and the detail of disclosure of remuneration, in Flexibility and Proportionality in Corporate Governance, OECD Publishing 2018.

 

 

In Swedish

• Företagsobligationsmarknadsrätt, Norstedts Juridik/Wolters Kluver (monografi) 2024.
• Röstvärdesskillnader på svenska med anledning av ISS Benchmark Voting Policy, Juridisk Tidskrift 2024/25 s. 641 ff.
• Det svenska vinstsyftet och hållbar bolagsstyrning, Svensk Juristtidning 2024.
• Innebörden av ”allmänhetens förtroende för aktiemarknaden” som lagstiftningsändamål, i Festskrift till per Samuelsson, Juristförlaget 2024.
• Utvecklingen på den svenska marknaden för företagsobligationer och eventuella regleringsbehov, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret 2023 nr 1.
• Finns det en värdepappersmarknadsrättslig princip om likabehandling av obligationsinnehavare? Juridisk Tidskrift 2022-23 nr. 4
• Informationsmässig likabehandling enligt aktiebolagslagen, Svensk Juristtidning 2021. 
• Kontrollägande och uppköpsreglering – Likabehandling vid offentliga uppköpserbjudanden och effekterna i bolagsstyrningen, Corporate Governance Forum (monografi) 2020.
• Tre frågor om värdering av minoritetsaktier med anledning av det nya fusionsdirektivet: "aktierna eller bolaget", minoritetsrabatter och illikviditetsrabatter, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret 2021 nr. 3