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Many automotive parts suppliers in Europe are mid-sized (family owned) businesses with inflexible and outdated corporate structures that are not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

International regulatory update

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • Australia, Belgium, European Union, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, United Kingdom
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  • October 8 2012

The high-level expert group on reforming the structure of the EU banking sector, chaired by Erkki Liikanen, has presented its final report to the European Commission

European Court of Justice permits cross-border movement of national companies into other EU member states by way of conversion of company form

  • Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • September 7 2012

The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") has ruled that cross-border migration by way of converting into a company format subject to the laws of a different EU member state is protected and permitted by overriding EU law even in cases where the national laws of the two countries in question do not provide for such a possibility

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

CMS quarterly communications update - July 2012

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • Austria, Bulgaria, European Union, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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  • July 20 2012

Quarterly update summarising regulatory and legal developments from the last three months in the communications, media and satellite sectors in Europe

Advocate General's opinion in a case referred to the Court of Justice of the EU is that marketing and labelling of wine that suggests a temporary beneficial effect in relation to digestion is unlawful

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • April 2 2012

The Advocate General has given his Opinion in relation to questions referred to the Court of Justice of the EU, arising from a dispute over whether the marketing and labelling of wine that referred to the wine having reduced acidity amounted to a health claim

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

German dividend withholding tax violates the principle of freemovement of capital (ECJ,October 20, 2011, c28409) impact on the French withholding tax levied on outbound dividends paid to European pension funds and certain minority shareholders?

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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  • European Union, France, Germany
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  • February 21 2012

The ECJ decided in a judgment rendered on October 20, 2011 (C 28409) that the German withholding tax violates the principle of free movement of capital guaranteed by the TFEUEEA Treaties

Refund of German withholding taxes good news for foreign investors

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • January 11 2012

In its decision dated October 20, 2011, (Case C- 28409), the court of justice of the European Union, (ECJ), has held that Germany violates the principle of free movement of capital as set out in the rules of the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA