Dirk Van Gerven is a Partner at NautaDutilh (a Benelux law firm), Brussels, and is a member of the Brussels Bar and the New York Bar. He has extensive experience in all areas of corporate law, including litigation, international arbitration, securities regulation, and finance. He is head of continuing legal education for the Dutchspeaking Bar of Brussels, a research fellow at the University of Leuven, and has published widely in the fields of corporate and financial law. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Supervisory Board for the Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission of Belgium. Paul Storm is a retired Partner of NautaDutilh, Rotterdam, and is Emeritus Professor of Law at Universiteit Nyenrode. Until 2005 he was Chair of the Combined Committee on Company Law instituted by the Royal Dutch Notarial Society and the Netherlands Bar Association. He is co-author of one of the leading Dutch textbooks on business organisations.