Deutsches Aktieninstitut awards university prize to a professor at the University of Liechtenstein

As part of a formal evening reception in Frankfurt in April 2013, the university prize awarded by Deutsches Aktieninstitut (German Shares Institute) was presented for the 18th time. The first prize for doctoral theses and habilitations went to Professor Dirk Zetzsche for his habilitation thesis.

The Deutsches Aktieninstitut’s university prize, worth around EUR 10,000, is awarded once a year for outstanding scientific dissertations in the subject areas of shares and capital markets. The award winners of 2013 received their prize from the new president of Deutsches Aktieninstitut, Werner Baumann, and the chairman of the institute’s scientific advisory board, Professor Bernd Rudolph. The first prize in the doctoral theses and habilitations category went to Professor Dirk Zetzsche for his habilitation thesis on the topic of “Principles of collective investment”.

F.l.t.r.: Werner Baumann, Prof. Dr. Dirk Zetzsche, Dr. Christine Bortenlänger (Executive Director DAI), Prof. Dr. Bernd Rudolph.

Outstanding scientific work

Professor Dirk Zetzsche, LL. M. (Toronto), holds the Chair for Banking and Securities Law at the University of Liechtenstein, which was created in 2011 by the Propter Homines foundation. He is also one of the directors of the Center for Business and Corporate Law at the legal faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

His key research areas at the Propter Homines Chair for Banking and Securities Law include European asset management law as well as banking and securities law. His book on the AIFM Directive (The AIFM Directive – Regulation of Alternative Investment Funds Manager ), published last year, is the first work on this fundamental restructuring of European collective investment law. The habilitation thesis itself is set to be published in 2014 by Mohr Siebeck.

Additional information regarding Professor Dirk Zetzsche is available at www.uni.li/dirk.zetzsche.

Shaping the capital markets

As an established lobbying institute, Deutsches Aktieninstitut is actively engaged in shaping the German and European capital markets and their framework conditions. It represents those sections of German commerce interested in the capital market. Its around 200 members are listed public limited companies, banks, stock exchanges, investors and other major market participants. Deutsches Aktieninstitut was founded in 1953 and has offices in Frankfurt am Main and in Brussels. Additional information regarding Deutsches Aktieninstitut is available at www.dai.de.