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ECJ rules that outsourced investment advisory services are exempt from VAT

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • Belgium, European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • April 8 2013

On 7 March 2013, the European Union Court of Justice (the "ECJ") released its decision in GfBk Gesellschaft für Börsenkommunikation mbH v. Finanzamt

Financial transaction tax: sending shock waves through global financial services

  • Allen & Overy LLP
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  • Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • March 5 2013

If it is implemented as proposed, the financial transaction tax (FTT) is likely to cause distortion to the financial sector, both within the EU and

Recent developments for the third quarter 2012

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Australia, China, European Union, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Singapore, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 8 2013

This letter is from the Global Equity Services ("GES") group in San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Attorneys in the GES practice group work

International regulatory update 10-14 December 2012

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 17 2012

The European Council (Heads of State or Government) has published the conclusions from its meeting on 13 and 14 December 2012, at which it agreed on a roadmap for the completion of the Economic and Monetary Union

Exit taxes and Europe - where are we now?

  • Eversheds LLP
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  • Belgium, Denmark, European Union, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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  • September 17 2012

For many international groups, flexibility to move businesses, personnel, and assets cross border can be important to react to commercial changes and new opportunities

Increase in UK merger control fees and Italian competition tax impose higher financial burdens on business to fund the work of competition authorities

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Italy, United Kingdom
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  • September 6 2012

From 1 October 2012 merger control fees in the UK will increase very significantly, and under the Italian competition regime the current merger control filing fee will be replaced with a mandatory "competition tax" payable by all companies registered in Italy having a turnover in excess of 50 million, regardless of whether they notify mergers or not

Selected international tax & legal consequences

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom
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  • August 10 2012

The August 2012 issue includes a summary of selected international legal and tax consequences for employee stock options, employee stock purchase rights, and employee restricted stock and restricted stock units in nearly 40 countries

Euroresourcedeals and debt

  • Jones Day
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  • Belgium, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • July 20 2012

Italian law decree No. 83 of 22 June 2012 (the "Decree") has introduced significant amendments to several provisions contained in the Italian Insolvency Act, governing, among others, the following major pre-insolvency restructuring proceedings: (a) the debt-restructuring agreement (accordo di ristrutturazione dei debiti) pursuant to Article 182-bis ("Art. 182-bis Agreement"); and (b) the arrangement with creditors (concordato preventivo) pursuant to Article 160 ("Arrangement with Creditors"

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

Treasury issues proposed regulations on FACTA: joint statement issued with 5 European nations outlining an alternative approach

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
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  • France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • February 15 2012

Congress, in 2010, enacted a new set of rules on the required reporting and withholding with respect to foreign financial accounts and nonfinancial foreign entities in Pub. L. No. 111-147, 501 (2010)(the “HIRE ACT”