Corporate Governance and Business Survival in the Time of Covid 19

Abstract

This study begins by analyzing the influence of the COVID 19 pandemic as the origin of the great economic crisis of the 21st century and as a dramatic accelerator of the main trends in commercial and financial regulation. Then, its second part examines the regulation of corporate governance in Spain at the time of COVID 19, analyzing the general trends and extraordinary regulations on the governing bodies of commercial companies in general and of listed public limited companies in particular. In addition, it examines the extraordinary regulations on the accounts of commercial companies and other extraordinary measures that have an impact on corporate law. The third part of the study analyzes the measures to facilitate business survival in Spain at the time of COVID 19, both in a functional sense, with insolvency and corporate measures, as well as structural or institutional, with the creation of the Support Fund for the Solvency of Strategic Companies (FASEE).