Study Group: Securities, Corporate Governance, and M&A Experts: Lawyers (EU, Africa)
Council Members in this Study Group: 448
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...
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...
- 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...
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,...
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...
GLG NewsSM Analyses by this Study Group's Leading Experts(?)
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Any Risks for GM Patents in Russia?
October 3, 2009
Analysis by: Andrey Zelenin, Partner,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
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.
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