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Mayer Brown LLP Frankfurt am Main, Germany Document Search Results (11) Show: results per page Sort by:  | Tackling the European Sovereign Debt Crisis - Stability at Last?
Marius A. Boewe, Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte, Carsten Flasshoff, Andreas Lange, Kai Liebrich, Jörg Wulfken; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 19, 2012, previously published on March 15, 2012 The European sovereign debt crisis has been back on the agenda of European leaders since the beginning of the year. On 30 January, the 27 Heads of State and Government met during an informal European Council in Brussels. The meeting’s official programme focused on growth and jobs and stressed...
| | PrimaCom - Confirming the Extraterritoriality of English Schemes of Arrangement
Daniel Hart, Jan Kraayvanger, Rainer Markfort, Stuart Pickford, Devi Shah, Marco Wilhelm; Mayer Brown International LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 7, 2012, previously published on March 2012 Hildyard J’s recent sanctioning of the scheme of arrangement proposed by PrimaCom Holding GmbH (‘’PrimaCom’’), a German incorporated company whose creditors were domiciled outside of the UK, has reaffirmed the extra-territorial jurisdiction of the English courts in...
| | The Second Financial Market Stabilization Act
Marius A. Boewe, Carsten Flasshoff, Simon G. Grieser, Kai Liebrich, Jörg Wulfken, Heinrich von Bünau; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 10, 2012, previously published on February 10, 2012 The German Parliament (Bundestag) and the Bundesrat have resolved the 2nd Financial Market Stabilization Act (2nd FMStG, the Act). It will soon come into force. The Act empowers the Financial Market Stabilization Fund (SoFFin) again to provide stabilization measures according to the Financial...
| | Refund of German Withholding Taxes - Good News for Foreign Investors
Ingo Kleutgens, Heiko Penndorf; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 11, 2012, previously published on January 12, 2012 In its decision dated October 20, 2011, (Case C-284/09), the court of justice of the European Union, (ECJ), has held that Germany violates the principle of free movement of capital as set out in the rules of the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). It does so to the extent that...
| | European Commission Seeks Views on the Technology Transfer Block Exemption
Sarah Byrt, Kiran S. Desai, Nathalie Jalabert Doury, Sangeeta Puran, Jens Peter Schmidt, Gillian Sproul, Ulrich Worm; Mayer Brown International LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 26, 2011, previously published on December 2011 The European Commission is inviting comments on the application of EU competition rules for the assessment of technology transfer agreements due to the upcoming expiry of the current Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (“TTBE”).
|  | Enforcement Issues Arising under European Law
Armineh Gharibian, Mark C. Hilgard, Jan Kraayvanger; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 20, 2011, previously published on December 19, 2011 Under European law, the recognition and enforcement of judicial decisions by EU Member States is governed by Council Regulation (EC) No. 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (Reg (EC) 44/2001 or the Regulation).
| | The European Sovereign Debt Crisis - Paving the Way towards Financial Stability
Marius A. Boewe, Simon G. Grieser, Andreas Lange, Jens Peter Schmidt, Jörg Wulfken, Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article November 15, 2011, previously published on November 14, 2011 The current European sovereign debt crisis has principally emerged with the problems of Greece, where decades of misleading accounting and statistics have brought the country to the verge of collapse. But financial difficulties have also arisen in Ireland and Portugal, and more recently in Spain...
| | Value Added Tax and Acquisition of Non-Performing Loans - Decision by the European Court Of Justice Dated 27 October 2011 in Case C-93/10
Ingo Kleutgens, Heiko Penndorf; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article November 8, 2011, previously published on November 2011 In its MKG decision dated 26 June 2003 (C-305/01) the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) ruled that each kind of factoring - i.e. non-recourse and recourse factoring - qualifies as a service subject to value added tax (“VAT”). The Federal Ministry of Finance...
| | FATCA - Tax Risks for US Investments
Simon G. Grieser, Manfred Heemann, Susan Köhler, Ingo Kleutgens, Heiko Penndorf, Jonathan A. Sambur, Benedikt Weiser; Mayer Brown LLP;
White Paper September 26, 2011, previously published on September 23, 2011 On March 18, 2010, the U.S. government adopted the “Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act” (HIRE Act). It provides for tax benefits for U.S. companies, who are supposed to create new jobs in turn.
| | European and German Privacy Laws and Cross-Border Data Transfer for E-Discovery in the United States—Are These Systems Compatible?
Mark C. Hilgard, Tim Wybitul; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 9, 2011, previously published on June 8, 2011 It is not unusual for companies doing business in Europe to be involved in US litigation proceedings. In the course of such litigation proceedings, US courts may require companies to disclose certain information, including the personal data of employees, customers and other persons. European data...
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