Study Group: Lawyers (Germany)
Council Members in this Study Group: 186
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Nikolaus RoeverPartner
ROVERBRONNER KG WIRTSCHAFTSPRUFUNGSGESELLSCHAFT STEUERBERATUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
Nikolaus Roever is a Partner at RöverBrönner Group, an auditing/ tax consulting firm in Berlin with a total staff of 350 including more than 100 professionals (certified accountants, tax advisors, attorneys and corporate finance specialists). He has played a key role in a number of high profile turnarounds,...
- Thomas Funke, LL.M.
Rechtsanwalt/Partner (Attorney at Law, Germany)
OSBORNE CLARKE O W AThomas 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 heavily regulated automotive industries). He succeeded...
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 is able to discuss antitrust review by the...
Peter StylesPrincipal Consultant
Stratos European Policy LimitedPeter Styles is the principal consultant at Stratos European Policy in England, where he offers analytical and related consulting services to business clients with an interest in European Union policy development and regulation. He follows broad trends and inflection points across many fields of EU...
Bertold Bar-BouyssierePartner
DLA PIPER UK LLPBertold Bar-Bouyssiere is Partner at DLA Piper in Brussels, Belgium, where he practices in the fields of antitrust and competition law. He specializes in EC and German competition law, including merger control, horizontal and vertical restraints, state aid and public procurement. Dr. Bär-Bouyssière...
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 tax and estate planning, international business...
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EADS Insider Trading: Are Lagardère and Daimler scott-free?
August 5, 2009
Louis Buchman, Partner, FIELD FISHER WATERHOUSE
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 directbearing...
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Better Strengthen Corproate Governance than Combat Symptoms
May 8, 2009
Industry attacks draft EU hedge-fund bill | www.euractiv.com
Stress testing and improvement of corporate governance within banks, not rules for counterparty choice should be strengtheneed in order to make them more resilient, in particular also where it has become clear that they do not adequately assess counterparty risk. Hedge funds are generally efficient...
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The European Commission may struggle to reflect national views on financial sector regulation
May 1, 2009
Peter Styles, Principal Consultant, Stratos European Policy Limited
Industry attacks draft EU hedge-fund bill | www.euractiv.com
The largest EU Member States, represented directly in the G7 and/or the G20, have given the European Commission a clear mandate to propose new regulatory controls over alternative investment managers operating inside the EU. Mostly affected will be hedge, private equity and venture capital funds...
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March 30, 2009
Peter Dehnen, Partner, DEHNEN.Lawyers
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...
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German banking consolidation through partial nationalization?
January 21, 2009
Peter Dehnen, Partner, DEHNEN.Lawyers
“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 asplanned...
Members in this Study Group include these company types:
- Law Firm (general practice/large)
- Law Firm (Boutique / Specialized)
- Law firm (small / solo)
Members in this Study Group often have these job titles:
- Partner
- Attorney
- Associate
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