This Quick Counsel outlines recommended contract provisions on the valuation of shares to be used under French law as well as under other European laws.
This Quick Overview examines how break-up fee provisions may limit risks associated with business negotiations in the United Kingdom and France.
Like it or not, different territories have different laws. There are 28 states in the European Union and across these states there are tranches of relatively harmonised laws in certain areas. The basic underlying laws of contract and case law or codes which aid their interpretation are, however, all different. Nearly every in-house counsel has faced the task of tackling an impending overseas deal when only local state law governed terms are at hand. Staring down the barrel at an unknown legal system, a familiar scene plays out: localise or push ahead with what we've got?
"the "Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals"
"Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals
This brochure, prepared by members of our Global Tax practice, provides an overview of the growing scrutiny of multinational tax practices and looks at the potential impact on business across several countries.
This article shows how foreign parties entangled in litigation in the United States can receive discovery requests to produce documents located in their home country and that these litigants sometimes invoke their country’s blocking statute to resist production.
This primer provides a detailed analysis of M&A activity by deal value, volume and type together with analysis of the political environment and deep rooted financial crisis. It considers recent legal developments in corporate, competition, tax and, pension and employment in the context of M&A throughout Europe.
More than 350 in-house lawyers from 30+ countries celebrated the 20th anniversary of ACC Europe and discussed today’s biggest challenges at the ACC Europe Annual Conference in London. A rich program of sessions on specialist legal and business subjects, networking events and social gatherings filled the two-and-a-half day conference, providing delegates the opportunity to discuss the latest trends affecting in-house counsel.
This primer is a guide to VAT on digital e-commerce providing a sufficiently detailed summary to give an e-commerce business an understanding of the VAT implications on typical cross-border transactions, VAT on different e-commerce business models, as well as how to manage VAT registration and VAT representative procedures in various member states in the EU.