Pierre-Henri Conac is Professor of Financial Markets Law at the Université du Luxembourg. He is the author of 'The regulation of securities markets by the French Commission des opérations de bourse (COB) and the US Securities and exchange commission (SEC)' which was awarded several prizes. His research areas deal principally with European, international and comparative securities law. He has been deeply involved in policy making in securities financial law at the European Union level. From 2011 to 2016 the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), appointed him twice to its consultative Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG). Martin Gelter is Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. Previously, he was an assistant professor in Law at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, University of Economics, a Terence M. Considine Fellow and a John M. Olin Fellow at Harvard Law School, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bologna, and a Visiting Professor at University Paris-II (Panthéon-Assas). Martin holds degrees in law from the University of Vienna, in business administration from Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an M.A. in Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences from Columbia University. His scholarship focuses on comparative corporate law and governance.

'This book provides a unique view on the compensation of investors' losses in jurisdictions worldwide and is therefore of great interest to practitioners and supervisors.' Ashley Alder, Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission, Chairman of the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)

• Preface Pierre-Henri Conac and Martin Gelter; Part I. General Report: 1. Introduction Martin Gelter; Part II. The Americas: 2. United States: the protection of minority investors and compensation of their losses Franklin A. Gevurtz; 3. Canada: the protection of minority investors and the compensation of their losses Stéphane Rousseau; 4. Brazil: the protection of minority investors and compensation for their losses Viviane Muller Prado; 5. Mexico: toward investor protection in global capital markets? The promise and challenges of Mexico's securities enforcement system Eugenio J. Cárdenas; Part III. European Union: 6. Austria: securities litigation and enforcement Martin Gelter and Michael Pucher; 7. Finland: protecting minority investors and compensating their losses Ville Pönkä; 8. France: the compensation of investors' losses for misrepresentation on financial markets Pierre-Henri Conac; 9. Germany: liability for incorrect capital market information Dirk A. Verse; 10. Greece: public enforcement and civil litigation in the Greek paradigm of minority investor protection Emmanuel P. Mastromanolis; 11. Italy: the protection of minority investors and the compensation of their losses Guido Ferrarini and Paolo Giudici; 12. Netherlands: protection of minority investors and the compensation of their losses Loes Lennarts and Joti Roest; 13. Poland: investor protection in the Polish capital market – selected issues Mariola Lemonnier; 14. Portugal: the legal framework of the Portuguese capital market Paulo de Tarso Domingues; 15. Romania: the protection of minority investors and the compensation of their losses Gheorghe Buta; 16. Spain: minority investors protection in Spain: civil liability remedies under securities law Mónica Fuentes Naharro; 17. United Kingdom: a confidence trick: Ex Ante versus Ex Post frameworks in minority investor protection Iris H.-Y. Chiu; Part IV. Other European Countries: 18. Russia: Russian capital markets and shareholder litigation: Quo Vadis? Yuliya Guseva; 19. Serbia: the protection of minority investors and the compensation of their losses Mirko Vasiljević, Jelena Lepetić and Jasna Vasiljević; Part V. The Middle-East: 20. Israel: the protection of minority investors and the compensation of their losses Uriel Procaccia; 21. Turkey: the protection of minority investors and the compensation of their losses in Turkish capital markets Ferna İpekel Kayalı; Part VI. Africa: 22. South Africa: investor protection Piet Delport; Part VII. The Indian Subcontinent: 23. India: the efficacy of India's legal system as a tool for investor protection Umakanth Varottil; 24. Pakistan: securities litigation and enforcement Syed Imad-ud-Din Asad and Rana Touseef Sami; Part VIII. East and Southeast Asia: 25. China: private securities litigation: law and practice Robin Hui Huang; 26. Japan: the protection of minority investors and the compensation of their losses Eiji Takahashi and Tatsuya Sakamoto; 27. Malaysia: protection of minority investors in the capital market: public enforcement and shareholders' litigation Aiman Nariman Mohd-Sulaiman; 28. South Korea: protection of minority investors in capital markets Kyung-Hoon Chun; 29. Taiwan: investor protection in Taiwan's capital market Wang-Ruu Tseng; Part IX. Australia: 30. Australia: the protection of minority investors and the compensation of their losses Olivia Dixon and Jennifer G. Hill.