(44)The carrying out of a cross-border conversion entails a change of the legal form of a company without that company losing its legal personality. However, neither a cross‐border conversion nor a cross-border merger or division should lead to the circumvention of the requirements for incorporation in the Member State in which the company is to be registered after that cross-border operation. Such conditions, including the requirements to have the head office in the destination Member State and those relating to the disqualification of directors, should be fully respected by the company. However, in the case of cross-border conversions, the application of such conditions by the destination Member State should not affect the continuity of the converted company’s legal personality.