A limited liability company and reforms of its regulation in the legal orders of the Czech Republic and Germany

The thesis concerns the topic of a limited liability company and of reforms of its regulation in the legal orders of the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany and focuses on the statutory minimum amount of stated capital of a limited liability company. The goal of the study is to explore, using the methods of historical and geografical comparison, whether the statutory regulation of the statutory minimum amount of stated capital of the limited liability company in the Czech and German legal orders will persist or whether the statutory regulation of the amount of stated capital will change, allowing the founders of the company to determine the amount of stated capital individually, depending on the needs of the company. The structure of the chapters reflects the chronological development of the statutory regulations concerned and it also considers the development of the legislation of the European Union. Chapter One is introductory. Chapter Two explains the statutory regulation of a limited liability company in Germany under the Limited Liability Companies Act (GmbHG) of 1892, the subsequent spreading of this form of a commercial company in other legal orders and the efforts of the German legislative body to reform the statutory regulation. Chapter Three deals with the Austrian and..