Dec 21, 2018 French State looking to intensify its control on foreign investment By Tanguy Bardet Aliénor Estrade Pascal Cuche Jérôme Philippe +1 more... Show less As most G20 countries, France is currently intensifying its control on foreign investment. Under French law, investments made by non-EU...
Dec 20, 2018 Minority acquisitions targeted by new German foreign investment rules By Frank Röhling Uwe Salaschek On 19 December, the German Government tightened further its rules on foreign investments in German businesses by non-EU/non-EFTA...
Dec 18, 2018 Could the proposed UK limited partnership reforms inadvertently impact investment fund managers? By Alexis Hopwood Mark Watterson In light of several investigative news pieces alleging the use of some limited partnerships for money laundering, the UK Government was...
Dec 17, 2018 Germany | Uncertainty for tax exemption in loan restructurings now resolved By Katharina Crinson David Beutel Chris Spiller On 23 November 2018, the German legislature has moved to fill a void left by a tax court ruling in February 2017 that the German Federal...
Dec 10, 2018 Delaware Supreme Court Upholds Akorn Ruling Finding a MAC Gave Rise to a Walk-Away Right By Paul Humphreys Sebastian Fain Matthew Herman Peter Lyons +1 more... Show less On Friday, December 7, the Delaware Supreme Court (the “DSC”), in an order that was as parsimonious with its word count as the Court of...
Dec 05, 2018 Proposed Regulations Issued on New U.S. Interest Deduction Limitations, Potentially Impacting Acquisitions by Highly Leveraged Buyers By Dennis Caracristi The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was signed into law in December of last year, among other things, amended section 163(j) of the U.S....
Nov 26, 2018 Tax developments for PE investors in the Netherlands: Part II By Bob van Kasteren New tax ruling policy The Secretary of Finance recently sent a letter to parliament setting out the government’s new tax ruling policy as...
Nov 23, 2018 Tax developments for PE investors in the Netherlands: Part I By Bob van Kasteren There have been a couple of developments in the past week (November 2018) that may impact the tax treatment of foreign investments into...
Nov 20, 2018 US securities fraud claims and unsponsored ADR programmes By Doug Smith David Livshiz Linda Martin Virginia Flower +1 more... Show less Non-US companies with unsponsored ADR programmes may be concerned about whether their liability risk has increased after the recent...
Nov 14, 2018 Xerox/Fuji: Don’t Copy This, Part 2 By Matthew Herman Peter Lyons Nathan Hembree In April, Justice Barry Ostrager of the New York Commercial Division granted a preliminary injunction motion, blocking the proposed...
Nov 13, 2018 Retail: does one size fit all? By Roger Schofield Simon Johnson Distress in the retail sector has become a staple in business columns, with retailers and their landlords under intense pressure from the...
Nov 12, 2018 An autumn ‘chestnut’ – how to avoid problems with accountants’ comfort letters in Q1 2019 capital markets deals By Doug Smith From 12 November, H1 2018 interim financial statements of issuers with calendar year ends went ‘stale’ for purposes of receiving negative...