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Leading individuals: fund formation

    • Xavier Comaills – Ashurst LLP
    • Arnaud David – SJ Berwin
    • Nathalie Duguay – SJ Berwin

Ashurst LLP has established itself as a market leader for the structuring of debt funds, a new field that requires the establishment of innovative and complex hybrid structures. The nine-lawyer team is also a key player in secondary transactions for funds and continues to advise clients on the formation and fundraising of French and Luxembourgish private equity funds. Highlights included assisting Crédit Agricole with its sale of Crédit Agricole Private Equity. Xavier Comaills and tax specialist Catherine Charpentier head the team.

SJ Berwin has ‘a broad combination of fund expertise’ and ‘a pragmatic approach of issues’. It advises on the creation of all types of private funds, and is increasingly involved in international work, particularly in Asia-related matters. It assisted Meridiam Infrastructure Managers with the creation of Meridiam Infrastructure Europe II. The team is headed by Arnaud David and Nathalie Duguay, who has ‘vast experience’ and is ‘able to find solutions to nearly any problem’. Senior figure Georges Pinkham relocated to the Hong Kong office.

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  • The new French regulation applying to national insurance contributions for managers and shareholders

    French insurance contributions on executive and shareholder remuneration (pay + dividends) have been substantially increased by the National Insurance Funding for 2013 Act, No. 2012-1404, of 17th December 2012. Until 31st December 2012, all dividends were subject to national insurance contributions on unearned income but henceforth, under Article L136-3 of the National Insurance Code, amended by Act No. 2012-1404, certain dividends   are considered as pay received by executives and shareholders and are therefore subject to the national insurance contributions on pay. The Act also abolished the ceiling on health insurance contributions payable by the self-employed and all this means that businesses must rethink the way that they have been structured until now.
    - EMMANUEL JACQUES Avocats – Law Firm

  • CHINA - PERSONAL TAXATION AND SOCIAL SECURITY : CHINESE AND FOREIGN NATIONALS ON AN EQUAL FOOTING

    The People's Republic of China has initiated an overhaul of its social security system, reformed the personal taxation regime and has extended the scope of these laws to foreigners residing in China.
    - Lefèvre Pelletier & associés

  • MOROCCO TO BECOME THE LEADING FINANCIAL PLACE IN AFRICA

    The Kingdom of Morocco is supporting the ambition of becoming the leading financial place for Africa. In this context, a wave of draft laws is to be passed and implemented within the following months, amongst which, the Law No. 53.08, setting up a new financial authority, and the Law No. 54.08, reforming public offering rules, are of paramount importance to Moroccan and foreign issuers, and financial institutions.
    - Lefèvre Pelletier & associés

  • ACQUISITIONS IN CHINA : ASSET OR SHARE DEAL?

    The opportunities offered to foreign investors by the Chinese mergers and acquisitions market are increasing every year: in 2010, transactions involving foreign companies came to 60.1 billion euros, an increase of 21.2% compared with 2009. Seen from the West, where markets are declining, all sectors of the Chinese economy seem to be undergoing promising development and the statistics indicate that the Middle Empire will be a lasting springboard for growth.
    - Lefèvre Pelletier & associés

  • Prime de Partage des Profits

    Le dispositif L’article 1er de la loi de financement rectificative de la Sécurité sociale pour 2011 oblige les sociétés commerciales de 50 salariés et plus, dont les dividendes par part sociale ou par action sont en augmentation par rapport à la moyenne des deux années précédentes, à verser une prime à l’ensemble de leurs salariés
    - Sarrau Thomas Couderc

  • BULGARIA MARKET OVERVIEW

    Types of investors The private equity (PE) funds that are active in Bulgaria are not raised or registered in the country. Some Bulgarian PE funds were raised recently, but there are no statistics as to the sources of their funding, their number, the funds that were accumulated, etc.
    - BOYANOV & CO.

  • RECENT DEVELOPMENTS REGARDING COMMITMENTS

    THE PROCEDURE IS CLARIFIED, BUT MAY COMMITMENTS APPLY WITHOUT LIMIT?
    - Vogel & Vogel

  • Landmark decision by French Competition Authority in conditioned LPG case

    cartel case closed after discovery that leniency application was largely based on forgeries and rejection of collective dominant position objection.
    - Vogel & Vogel

  • 2012 supplementary budget

    The second supplementary budget published in the Official Gazette September 19, 2011 provides for two key measures that affect the deferral of tax losses and taxation of capital gains realized on the sale of equity securities .
    - Sarrau Thomas Couderc

  • Actualité législative fiscale

    Au delà des mesures applicables à l’ensemble des contribuables (telles que la limitation du report des déficits ou la réforme du mode de calcul des plus values sur cessions de participations),le plan de réduction des déficits annoncé le 24 août dernier par le gouvernement comprend des mesures qui intéressent spécifiquement les acteurs du secteur financier.
    - Sarrau Thomas Couderc

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  • Sayenko Kharenko – legal counsel on the acquisition of ING’s securities and custody services bus

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    - Sayenko Kharenko

  • LS Horizon Limited advised PTG Energy Public Company Limited

    LS Horizon Limited has advised PTG Energy Public Company Limited (the " Company "), which operates the business of distribution of petroleum products and equipment for gas stations, including fuel selling through its PT petrol stations, in connection with its initial public offering (" IPO ") and listing of its shares on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (" SET ").
    - LS Horizon Limited

  • Penningtons establishes pensions team with two senior lateral hires

    Penningtons Solicitors LLP has recruited partner Maria Riccio and associate Rupert Graham-Evans to lead its newly established pensions law team. Working between the firm's Hampshire and London offices, they will also support Penningtons' regional offices across Cambridge and the South East, advising clients in the UK and internationally.
    - Penningtons Solicitors LLP

  • Matouk Bassiouny Advises Emirates NBD PJSC on the USD 500 Million Acquisition of BNP Paribas S.A.E.

    Matouk Bassiouny advised Emirates NBD PJSC on the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of BNP Paribas S.A.E. in Egypt.  The value of the transaction amounted to USD 500 million. The Share Purchase Agreement was signed in December 2012 and closing took place in Cairo on Sunday June 9 th 2013. 
    - DLA Matouk Bassiouny

  • Partner and Senior Associate join Matouk Bassiouny's Dispute Resolution group

    We are delighted to inform you that Johanne Cox joins Matouk Bassiouny as a Partner in the firm's Dispute Resolution group. Johanne has practiced international arbitration in Egypt for a number of years, prior to which, she practiced arbitration in London and Paris at leading international law firms.  She is recognized in Legal 500 (2013) as "very experienced and knowledgeable", adding a "great dynamic" to her law firm's practice.  Johanne is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Solicitor-Advocate in England and Wales, and an accredited Mediator.
    - DLA Matouk Bassiouny

  • Landmark Supreme Court judgement on the Rights of Depositors in Cyprus

    On 07.06.2013 the Supreme Court issued its judgment in the context of the first recourses filed by depositors and challenging the effect on depositors' funds of the recent bank resolution measures. The judgment is a very welcome development and should be viewed as a significant stepping stone in the future developments of the promotion of depositors' claims.
    - Patrikios Pavlou & Associates LLC

  • Kochański Zięba Rapala & Partners law firm is a laureate of the European Medal 2013

    Kochański Zięba Rapala & Partners law firm is honored to announce that it has been awarded the European Medal 2013 in the Final of the 24th Edition of the Competition organized by the Business Centre Club in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and under the honorary patronage of the European Economic and Social Committee.
    - Kochanski Zieba Rapala & Partners

  • Georg Fischer to acquire majority stake in Hakan Plastik of Turkey

    Georg Fischer Ltd. (GF) signed a share purchase agreement on 7 May 2013 to acquire majority stake in Hakan Plastik A.S., with an option to acquire the remaining shares in following years. 
    - Paksoy

  • Hengeler Mueller advises CEWE on transformation of legal form

    The Annual General Meeting of CEWE COLOR Holding AG has approved the change the company's legal form into a partnership limited by shares - Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (KGaA). The change of the legal form includes the transfer of the business currently conducted by CEWE COLOR AG & Co. OHG to CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA.
    - Hengeler Mueller

  • Hengeler Mueller advises Grammer AG on refinancing by certificate of indebtedness

    Grammer AG (Amberg), a leading supplier of automotive interior and seating systems, has issued loans evidenced by certificate of indebtedness (Schuldscheindarlehen) in the amount of € 90 million which is divided into tranches of 4 and 6 years as well as fixed and variable interest rate tranches. Grammer AG is refinancing an existing loan evidenced by certificate of indebtedness of 2006 prior to maturity in August with part of the issuing proceeds.
    - Hengeler Mueller
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