The private equity industry has faced a number of challenges over the last year: we have seen interest rate rises in response to greater inflationary pressure including increasing labor, transport, and energy costs, the...more
In a decision dated May 8, 2023 (case reference: 2 W 25/23), the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court (OLG) addressed the question of whether specific ESG reporting obligations can be provided for in the articles of association...more
The German Federal Court of Justice (FCJ), in two recent judgments (case numbers II ZR 219/21 and II ZR 220/21), awarded former shareholders of a target company that accepted a takeover offer payment claims for the difference...more
The Morgan Lewis Takeover Monitor documents public tender ofers in Germany for Morgan Lewis clients and interested persons. This issue covers published and announced current offers as of August 24, 2023.
In addition, it...more
The German Federal Court of Justice (FCJ) recently decided (case number II ZB 12/21) that the stock exchange price of shares of a German stock corporation can be, in the context of a corporate appraisal proceeding, the legal...more
The Morgan Lewis Takeover Monitor documents public tender ofers in Germany for Morgan Lewis clients and interested persons. This issue covers published and announced current ofers as of July 12, 2023.
In addition, it...more
As the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) rarely intervenes in the discussion of current legal topics, its latest statement published on March 30, 2023 in its BaFinJournal under the (here translated) title...more
“Welcome to Morgan Lewis’s Takeover Monitor Germany. This publication aims to provide funds, public and private companies, and other entities involved in capital markets transactions with a regular documentation of current...more
The Morgan Lewis Takeover Monitor documents public tender ofers in Germany for Morgan Lewis clients and interested persons. This issue covers published and announced current offers as of November 23, 2022.
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The Morgan Lewis Takeover Monitor documents public tender offers in Germany for Morgan Lewis clients and interested persons. This issue covers published and announced current offers as of October 12, 2022.
The takeover offer...more
The Morgan Lewis takeover monitor documents public tender offers in Germany for Morgan Lewis clients and interested persons. This issue covers published and announced current offers as of August 18, 2022.
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Current offers are driven by a number of objectives, ranging from a strategic investment to increase the target company’s future dividend capacity (voluntary takeover offer for shares of Deutsche EuroShop AG) to the...more
With this issue we supplement the documentation of public tender offers in Germany by our Morgan Lewis takeover monitor for Morgan Lewis clients and interested persons with respect to recent judgments of the German Federal...more
Public tender offers under the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act: Offers, results and analyses -
Following the lapse of the takeover offer to the shareholders of QIAGEN B.V. caused by the failure to meet the...more
As the economic effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continue to be felt, Germany’s protective shield proceeding under Section 270b of the Insolvency Code is a way for companies to restructure under the direction of...more
A new law in Germany aims to benefit consumers and microenterprises by protecting the loss of essential services in the form of temporary deferrals of contractual obligations and loans during the coronavirus (COVID-19)...more