Study Group: Securities, Corporate Governance, and M&A Experts: Lawyers (EU, Africa)
Council Members in this Study Group: 449
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
- Maurice Murphy
Founder & Principal
TMT Legal
Maurice Murphy is Founder and Senior Partner of TMT Legal, a technology, media and telecommunications consultancy in London. He advises clients on complex commercial transactions, corporate and governance matters, and intellectual property issues including exploitation and enforcement. With respect...
Andrey ZeleninPartner
Lidings Law Firm
Andrey Zelenin is partner at Lidings Law Firm in Moscow. Mr. Zelenin specializes in the areas of private international law, foreign investments into Russia and currency law, and he renders advice for foreign businesses on setting up their activities in Russia. He also practices litigation and arbitration...
- Marc Israel
Partner
MACFARLANES SERVICES LTDMarc Israel is a Partner at Macfarlanes in London. He specializes in a wide range of competition and antitrust work. Mr. Israel advises clients active in a wide variety of industry sectors, as well as a number of private equity houses. He regularly represents clients before the UK's Office of FairTrading...
Bruno CovaPartner & Co-Chair, Milan Office
PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER LLPBruno Cova is Co-Chair of the Milan office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, where he focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, securities law and corporate governance, energy matters, restructurings, and complex cross-border litigation. Previously, Mr. Cova was the Chief Legal Adviserto...
- 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...
Thomas RihmPartner
Thouvenin RechtsanwalteThomas Rihm, PhD, is Partner with the commercial law firm of Thouvenin Rechtsanwalte in Zürich, Switzerland. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, supply distribution, financing and labor, as well as in other commercial law areas, and advising mostly foreign corporate...
- Alfonso Lopez-Ibor
Partner
Ventura Garces & Lopez-Ibor AbogadosAlfonso Lopez-Ibor is the Managing Partner of Ventura Garces & Lopez-Ibor Abogados, a Spain-based law firm. He specializes in Banking Law, Finance, Corporate Finance and International, Capital Markets and Aviation Law. Mr. Lopez-Ibor is former managing partner of Allen & Overy, Madrid. He is also former...
- Ann LaFrance
European Partner
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLPAnn J. LaFrance is the Coordinating Partner of the European communications law and data privacy practice for Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in London. Drawing from more than 20 years of industry experience in Europe and the Americas, Ms. LaFrance advises clients on regulation and competition law, advocacy...
GLG NewsSM Analyses by this Study Group's Leading Experts (?)
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Any Risks for GM Patents in Russia?
October 3, 2009
Andrey Zelenin, Partner, Lidings Law Firm
GAZ to Get Desired GM Technology in Opel Deal | www.themoscowtimes.com
Though a number of concerns have been raised following the sale of a stake in Opel to an alliance of Magna and Sberbank, it is unlikely that this will lead to any misuse of GM patents in Russia.
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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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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...
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- Partner
- Attorney