Vanessa Knapp (Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College) is a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London and an Honorary Professor at Brunel University. She was a corporate partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for many years. She is the Chair of an independent expert panel to advise the UK government on corporate redomiciliation. She is a member and past Chair of the City of London Law Society Company Law Committee and of the Company Law Committee of the Council and Bars of the Law Societies of Europe. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the European Academy of Law. She was a member of the EU Informal Commission Legal Expert Group on company law.
Publications
Directives “Droits des actionnaires” 2007/36/CE et (UE) 2017/828 Commentaire article par article Chapter on Royaume Unie Chiu I and Knapp V (2022) Bruylant.
Modernisation of European Company Law: Recent Legislative Achievement and the Future of European Company Law Chapter on cross border divisions in practice (2021) Bruylant.
Sustainable Corporate Governance: A Way Forward?. European Company and Financial Law Review 18.2 (2021): 218-243.
Cross border mobility: what do we need in practice? (2018, August). In ERA Forum (Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 63-76). Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
