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Squeeze-outs in Germany: becoming stale for hedge funds?

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Germany
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  • June 7 2007

In the past, hedge funds have profited from investing in listed German companies going through a corporate restructuring, particularly those in the midst of a squeeze-out

Update on collective portfolio management (CPM)

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Germany
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  • February 16 2009

In our last international edition of the Financial Services updater our German desk in London discussed a substantial change in German banking regulation, which is going to come into effect in Q1 or Q2 of 2009: the introduction of a new case for regulation (“Anlageverwaltung” - collective portfolio management - CPM

BaFin issues FAQs on foreign UCITS: guidance on notification for public distribution under Section 132 of the German Investment Act and marketing foreign UCITS fund shares

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Germany
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  • September 11 2009

On 4 September 2009 the German Federal Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt fur Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht; BaFin) issued guidance in question-and-answer format dated 24 August 2009 on the notification for public distribution of foreign UCITS funds in Germany under section 132 of the German Investment Act (Investmentgesetz; InvG) and marketing foreign UCITS fund shares (the so-called 'FAQ Foreign UCITS', hereinafter referred to as 'FAQs'

Significant amendments to the German Investment Act

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Germany
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  • January 31 2008

On 8 November 2007 the Deutscher Bundestag, the German parliament, passed an act (the Amendment Act) amending the German Investment Act (the Investment Act

Deutsche Telekom ordered by German court to turn over records provided in earlier U.S. lawsuit

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Germany, USA
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  • August 11 2008

A German court recently ordered Deutsche Telekom ("DT") to provide records from a 2005 U.S. lawsuit to plaintiffs in a similar lawsuit filed in Germany

Selling investment funds to German private investors legal and regulatory issues

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Germany
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  • July 31 2008

It is often said that investment funds are bought not sold

International regulatory update

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • Australia, European Union, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • April 4 2011

The Ministry of Justice has published its final guidance under section 9 of the Bribery Act 2010 about procedures that relevant commercial organisations can put in place to prevent persons associated with them from bribing

German securities trading law new share ownership notification rules

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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  • Germany
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  • January 25 2007

On January 20, 2007, an amendment to the German Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz) came into effect implementing the European Transparency Directive

German co-determination at board level

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Germany
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  • April 29 2008

In Germany, employee co-determination at the supervisory board level has various legal sources, but the most important ones are the One-Third Participation Act (Drittelbeteiligungsgesetz) and the Co-Determination Act of 1976 (Mitbestimmungsgesetz

Deutsche Börse cannot prevent descriptive use of the “DAX” trade mark

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Germany
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  • May 16 2008

The Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt (Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt) rendered a decision that is likely to have a significant impact on the index licensing business of Deutsche Börse AG for financial products relating to the “DAX” stock indices (judgment of 13 February 2007, 11 U 4006