Smaller Issuers Committee

The Smaller and Medium Issuers Listed in Europe Committee, created in 2008, focuses on the specific needs of smaller listed companies. The Smaller Issuers Committee was set up in reaction to the increase of de-listings and the decrease of new listings, due to the ever-growing volume of regulations for listed companies.

The goal of the Smaller Issuers Committee is to improve and facilitate the access for smaller issuers to capital markets. There is a need to make it more attractive for an average size company to have its shares listed and publicly traded. Lighter and better regulation for smaller issuers is the main objective. It aims at getting formal recognition by the EU of smaller issuers as a specific sector between SMEs and the largest listed companies in view of benefiting from a “lighter touch regime”.

We look not only at topics of specific interest for smaller issuers, but also keeps a watching brief over all market regulations from a smaller issuer viewpoint. The Committee also exchanges information on national legislation and politics affecting smaller issuers.

The Committee holds quarterly meetings in different locations in the Europe.

Committee Members

Caroline Weber, Co-chair

General Director

MiddleNext, France

Mirosław Kachniewski, Co-chair

President

SEG, Poland

James Ashton

Chief Executive

Jack Marshall

Policy Adviser

Lorence Nye

Head of Policy and Communication

The QCA, United Kingdom

Abel Ferreira

Executive Director

AEM, Portugal

Alessandra Casale

Head of Representative Office

Assonime, Italy

Valentina Allotti

Capital Markets and Listed Companies Unit

Assonime, Italy

Paola Spatola

Director of Capital Market and Listed Companies

Assonime, Italy

Emilia Orsini

Secretary General

Assonext, Italy

Lukas Plattner

Assonext, Italy

Giacomo Abbadessa

Assonext, Italy

Franz-Josef Leven

Director

Deutsches Aktieninstitut, Germany

Norbert Kuhn

Head of Corporate Finance

Deutsches Aktieninstitut, Germany

Gregorio Arranz

Member of the Board of Directors

Emisores Españoles, Spain

Juan Manuel Vazquez

Lawyer

Emisores Españoles, Spain

Enric Rello

COO/CFO

Oryzon Genomics, Spain

Marga Mas

Deputy Financial Director

Oryzon Genomics, Spain

Piotr Biernacki

Vice President

SEG, Poland

Athanasios Kouloridas

Legal Counsel

ULC - Eneiset, Greece

Daniela Peeva

Chairperson

ABIRD, Bulgaria

Daniela Serban

President

ARIR, Romania

Ioan Sumandea

Vice President

ARIR, Romania

Javier Illescas

Head of Corporate and Legal

GrupoSantander, Spain

Robert Koller

Group Risk Management and Compliance Director

NowCM, Luxembourg

Florian Waizenegger

CFO

NowCM, Luxembourg