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Acting in concert: relief for shareholders

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Germany
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  • April 10 2007

A German Federal Supreme Court decision on acting in concert has provided legal certainty for shareholders in a German-listed stock corporation

Lawmakers propose to amend German corporate form - will investors benefit?

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • January 18 2007

The German Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ) published a preliminary proposal for several far-reaching amendments to the German Limited Liability Company Act (GmbHG) in May 2006

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

Handelsgesellschaft Heinrich Heine GmBH v Verbraucherzentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen EV 15 C- 51108 April 2010 (unreported)

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Germany
  • -
  • June 3 2010

Heine, a German mail-order company, had standard terms and conditions of sale that the consumer would pay a standard flatrate of EUR4

Persons deemed managing directors in fact in Germany have fiduciary duties under German law

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Germany
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  • May 7 2013

Under German corporate law, the managing director of a GmbH (German limited liability company) has general fiduciary duties to the company. While