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Cross-border mergers The Companies (Cross-Border Mergers) Regulations 2007 (the Regulations) came into force in December 2007 and implements Directive 2005/56/EC of the European Parliament and Council on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies. The Regulations provide for ... Read more	Companies Act 2006: is your house in order? As 2009 draws to a close, the dust is now settling on what has been a very busy few years for UK company law. The Companies Act 2006 (the 2006 Act) represented the biggest overhaul ... Read more
Emerging opportunities in emerging markets The emerging markets of Russia and Ukraine (the region) have been caught by the economic malaise currently gripping the world. A consequence of this malaise is that interest in capital markets has stalled. That is ... Read more	New restrictions for investment into Germany by non-EU and EFTA investors Traditionally the German Foreign Trade and Payments Act (Aussenwirtschaftsgesetz (AWG)) only provided for restrictions on the import and export of weapons and related technologies. In the case of the acquisition by a foreign investor of ... Read more
Goodbye Table A: changes to UK company law As the Companies Act 2006 (the Act) has significantly amended UK company law, the government has taken the opportunity to develop a new set of default articles to bring them into line with the provisions ... Read more	Re-emergence of debt-for-equity swaps The recent spate of corporate restructurings and rescues is testament to the combination of difficult and inter-related conditions currently facing companies. This includes a lack of new bank finance, concern about debt-heavy balance sheets, exposure ... Read more
Debt listings come of age Unsurprisingly, listing debt has become a favoured way of eliminating withholding tax (WHT) on the payment of interest. Besides the fact that this method brings a certain treatment, many boards of UK companies have discovered ... Read more	What keeps directors awake at night? Topical issues for in-house lawyers There has been a recent surge in media coverage of incidents affecting corporate bodies and of calls for directors to be held personably responsible. Reports such as the theft of a laptop from an employee ... Read more
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