10/2/2026 8:12:38 AM Germany's "Invest in Germany Summit": A New Pitch for International Capital By Gregor von Bonin Heiner Braun Andreas Ruthemeyer Carsten Bork Alex Schmidtke +2 more... Show less On 19 and 20 October 2026, the German government will host its first "Invest in Germany Summit" in Berlin. Chancellor Friedrich Merz and...
9/30/2026 1:48:37 PM “Retroactive” dividend entitlement under authorised capital: Can the permitted become prohibited? By Christoph H. Seibt Christopher Dibbern Danwerth The Higher Regional Court of Munich has refused to register a capital increase from authorised capital with a simplified exclusion of...
9/28/2026 11:32:07 AM EU Merger Guidelines review: new economic studies inform Commission's approach to dynamic effects By Ilka Oberländer Jenny Leahy Janet Lang Dominic Divivier Niklas Andree +2 more... Show less The European Commission has recently published two economic studies on how mergers may impact innovation and future competition. These...
9/25/2026 1:42:37 PM EXPO REAL 2026: our take on German real estate By Jan Matauschek Niko Schultz-Süchting Gerrit Beckhaus Julia Haas Timo Elsner Marcus Emmer +3 more... Show less As the property industry prepares to meet in Munich for EXPO REAL, Germany’s real estate market presents a mixed picture. Developers...
9/24/2026 12:48:07 PM Inside Infrastructure: Satellites, Infrastructure's newest frontier By Rhys Evans Jessamy Gallagher Tara Gazzard Alexandra Yang +1 more... Show less Inside Infrastructure is back. We're launching the next series with a look at a sector that is moving increasingly into the mainstream...
9/23/2026 2:01:37 PM ACM call-in power: what parties negotiating Dutch deals need to know By Paul van den Berg Felix Roscam Abbing Rosa Warning Recently, the Dutch Parliament introduced a draft legislative act (the Act) that would grant the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and...
9/7/2026 9:10:03 AM Are AI occupiers about to rewrite the UK institutional office lease? By Joey Patchitt Lydia Kent-Smith AI is now the single biggest source of new demand in the London office market, and it is still only in its infancy. Yet it arrives...
9/4/2026 4:31:07 PM The CMA’s revised merger assessment guidelines: a more workable route for efficiencies? By James Aitken Colin Raftery The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published revised Merger Assessment Guidelines (MAGs). The main change is the...
8/18/2026 4:01:36 PM Italy: MLBOs without a change of control get the green light – tax losses and interest can survive the merger (Rulings No. 160/2026 and No. 162/2026) By Toni Marciante In two rulings No. 160/2026 and No. 162/2026, the Italian tax authority considered merger leveraged buy-outs (MLBOs) in which the...
8/12/2026 3:30:37 PM English Court Stays Hunkemöller LME Claim Pending New York Litigation By Katharina Crinson Emilio Salice Lindsay Hingston Summary On 6 August 2026, Mr Justice Leech in the English High Court granted a case management stay of the English claim brought by a...
8/4/2026 4:51:06 PM UK Supreme Court Confirms Unrecognised Foreign Judgments Can Found a Bankruptcy Petition By Richard Tett Katharina Crinson Jonathan Kelly Emilio Salice +1 more... Show less Summary On 27 July 2026, the UK Supreme Court held unanimously in Drelle v Servis-Terminal LLC [2026] UKSC 29 that an unrecognised and...
7/21/2026 12:36:07 PM Inside Infrastructure: Competing for capital – what investors really need By Jessamy Gallagher Alastair Mordaunt Richard Thexton Kirsten Singleton Pascal Despard Susannah Prichard Iona Crawford +4 more... Show less Governments around the world face the same fundamental challenge: how to fund the infrastructure needed to support economic growth,...
7/15/2026 12:42:07 PM UK National Security and Investment Act: key trends in the latest data ahead of upcoming reforms and a new Prime Minister By Alastair Mordaunt Sarah Jensen 2025/26 Annual Report shows rising volumes of deals under review across a broad spectrum of sectors and acquirers, with a shift in focus...
7/15/2026 12:16:07 PM Dematerialisation Update: Publication of the DEMAT Report By Rós Ní Dhubháin Ziyad Nassif The Dematerialisation Market Action Taskforce (DEMAT) published its long-awaited report on 14 July 2026, timed to coincide with the...
7/14/2026 2:21:37 PM Getting the deal through in an era of policy-driven enforcement By Laurent Bougard Christine Laciak Rory Jones Uwe Salaschek +1 more... Show less In a recent post, we shared details of the 2027 edition of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control, now called Panoramic: Merger...
7/14/2026 10:35:36 AM Minority Selecta noteholders can appeal Dutch share pledge enforcement By Huub Boekhorst Marjolein Bakker In brief In its decision of 30 June 2026, the Netherlands Commercial Court of Appeal (NCCA) ruled that certain first-lien noteholders can...