Study Group: Corporate Securities and M&A Experts: Lawyers (Germany)
Council Members in this Study Group: 51
This study group may include professors, attorneys, former regulatory officers, and consultants knowledgeable on topics such as law and litigation issues, lobbying, policy and government, elections, antitrust, immigration, intellectual property, and legislation, among others.
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
- Thomas Funke
Rechtsanwalt/Partner (Attorney at Law, Germany)
OSBORNE CLARKE O W A
Thomas Funke is a Rechtsanwalt (Attorney at Law, Germany) and Partner at Osborne Clarke. Dr. Funke advises on German and European antitrust, competition law, as well as the laws impacting the various regulated industries (utilities, telecoms, and the...
Louis BuchmanPartner
FIELD FISHER WATERHOUSELouis B. Buchman is a Partner in the Paris office of Field Fisher Waterhouse where he specializes in European and French antitrust, corporate law, arbitration and ADR and the listing of Financial Instruments in Paris. Regarding antitrust issues, Mr. Buchman...
Peter DehnenPartner
DEHNEN.LawyersPeter Dehnen is the Head of DEHNEN.Lawyers, a German international tax lawyers firm with offices both in Duesseldorf, Germany and Washington, D.C. Mr. Dehnen has developed competence in areas such as international taxation, corporate tax and individual...
Stefan BretthauerPartner
Heuking Kühn Lüer WojtekStefan Bretthauer is a partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek in Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Bretthauer specializes in antitrust law, including distribution law; hospitals mergers, energy law, and franchise law. He has worked in the antitrust department of a major...
GLG NewsSM Analyses by this Study Group's Leading Experts(?)
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EADS Insider Trading: Are Lagardère and Daimler scott-free?
August 5, 2009
Analysis by: Louis Buchman, Partner,Lagardère and Daimler not implicated in the EADS investigation | www.agefi.fr
Insider trading in France is a felony giving rise to 2 possible actions, one at the Financial Markets watchdog agency level (AMF), the other in court. Case law is scarce but precedents exist. The outcome of the AMF action will not mean the end of the criminal investigation phase, and has no direct bearing on the eventual outcome of a court case.
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March 30, 2009
Analysis by: Peter Dehnen, Partner,Original title: Business confidence hits 18-year low in Germany | www.ft.com
Business confidence in Germany is at an all-time low. The business climate index, as surveyed by the Munich-based Ifo Institute, has reached the lowest result measured since the survey began in 1991. Even worse is that, according to Ifo’s president Hans W. Sinn, the bottom of the downturn has not yet been reached. That’s the bad part of the news. Here comes the good news: Although the part of the survey which measures current conditions continues to decline, the part of the survey measuring optimism for the next six months has increased steadily since the beginning of the year.
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German banking consolidation through partial nationalization?
January 21, 2009
Analysis by: Peter Dehnen, Partner,“Germany uses crisis to push banking consolidation” | www.ft.com
Germany has been the most active in promoting consolidation in both the commercial banking industry as well as in the state banking sector. In concrete examples, the German government has acquired a 25 % direct stake in Commerzbank to ensure that its merger with Dresdner Bank will go ahead as planned and has recently given a helping hand to Deutsche Bank in its bid to acquire a large stake in Postbank to beef up Deutsche Bank's domestic retail franchise. The consolidation of the already state-owned sector of Landesbanken and Sparkassen is the bigger challenge. The government will have to persuade the different Landesbanken of the German Federal States and also the mutual savings banks (Sparkassen) to accept consolidation.
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Germany’s VW Law brought to ECJ again
September 11, 2008
Analysis by: Peter Dehnen, Partner,EU's McCreevy wants Germany facing court over VW law | www.cnbc.com
EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy announced that he wants to take Germany to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) since in his view, Germany has failed to amend the so-called “VW Law” properly and in line with European legislation. The ECJ held last year that the VW law was in breach of European rules on the free flow of capital across borders within the EU. The German car maker Porsche, which is Volkswagen’s major shareholder, currently owning 30 %, has already won permission from the European Commission (EC) to acquire control of VW and is about to do this step by step within the next few months. The German state of Lower Saxony, VW's second-largest shareholder with just slightly over 20 % of the ordinary shares, wants to keep its stake and the blocking minority provided by the VW Law.
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Can the French be right from time to time?
August 19, 2008
Analysis by: Louis Buchman, Partner,France reaffirms its faith in future of nuclear power | www.iht.com
Reliance on nuclear-produced electricity is a strategic decision reached decades ago. This decision stirred surprisingly little opposition domestically. The validity of the decision is upheld in tems of CO² credits.
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