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Corporate restructuring to minimise risks

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Germany, United Kingdom
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  • January 18 2013

Many automotive parts suppliers in Europe are mid-sized (family owned) businesses with inflexible and outdated corporate structures that are not

International regulatory update

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • Australia, European Union, France, Germany, Global, Hong Kong, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, United Kingdom
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  • August 6 2012

The EBA, EIOPA and ESMA have published a press release confirming that the deadline for the submission of the joint regulatory technical standards covering risk mitigation techniques for OTC derivatives not cleared by central counterparties (CCPs) under the regulation on OTC derivatives and market infrastructures will be postponed

Recent developments for the fourth quarter 2011

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Canada, China, Denmark, European Union, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 15 2012

The end of the year and beginning of a new year is always a busy time for us, as it is for most of our clients

Carry arrangements

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA
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  • June 19 2011

As private equity firms establish operations in multiple jurisdictions, the tax rules to which they are subject become substantially more complex

CMS guide to mandatory offers and squeeze-outs

  • CMS
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  • Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
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  • April 26 2011

Public takeovers in Europe are on the rise and the transactions require increasing expertise in both the relevant local jurisdictions, as well as knowledge of EU law

Caught in the act of acquiring some shares: the application of merger control rules on the acquisition of non-controlling minority shareholdings in Germany and the UK

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Germany, United Kingdom
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  • January 5 2011

Enterprises and corporate lawyers certainly know by now that they may have to go through merger control proceedings if they want to acquire "control" of another enterprise

Constraints on equity investments in listed companies

  • Dechert LLP
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  • France, Germany, United Kingdom
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  • December 13 2010

A private equity fund contemplating an investment in a listed company has to face a different environment from its "sweet spot" consisting of transactions in privately-held companies

Maximizing value in minority investments

  • Dechert LLP
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  • France, Germany, United Kingdom
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  • August 12 2010

Private equity sponsors seeking to acquire interests in public and listed companies in Europe must look closely at the requirements of takeover laws in the various member states of the European Union to determine at what level of ownership a requirement to make a "mandatory offer" for a company will be required

FSA moves to prevent undisclosed stakebuilding

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • Germany, United Kingdom
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  • October 31 2008

The uproar surrounding Porsche’s massive undisclosed stake in Volkswagen has illustrated the potential market failures which can arise as a result of secret stakebuilding using cash-settled derivatives

Porsche, VW - transparency and fairness in fast markets

  • Dentons
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  • Germany, United Kingdom
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  • October 30 2008

Porsche's covert (until last Sunday) acquisition of cashsettled options on VW shares should prompt a review of the regulatory regime that allowed it rather than further criticism of hedge funds and other short sellers