This second volume of Developments in European Company Law, published under the auspices of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies' Centre for Corporate Law and Practice, focuses on the quest for a legal form for small businesses. The debate as to whether the traditional registered company, perhaps with some modification, is an appropriate vehicle for small enterprises has continued in Britain, and to a lesser extent in Europe, for well over thirty years. The imperative behind reform in this area of the law in many cases will be political and this is perhaps most dramatically...