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  • The Danish Companies Act contains a procedure in Section 20b that allows a majority shareholder holding more than 90% of the shares and the votes and the board of the company to decide that the minority shareholders' shares must be compulsory redeemed. But this process takes seven to eight months due to certain notice periods.
  • VW: well protected, for now The European Commission has told Germany that it must change a law has been used to block takeovers of car-maker Volkswagen or face court action.
  • Enron's attempts to unwind some of its derivative transactions could threaten the future of the capital markets, say derivatives specialists.
  • The United Arab Emirates (UAE) finalized the setting up of financial free zones, which are exempt from all federal and commercial laws within the UAE. The Dubai International Financial Centre, one of the new zones, has welcomed the development as it allows it to push ahead with creating its own set of financial laws based on international best practice without local law risks.
  • A Delaware court ruling has put independent directors and the investment opportunities that come their way under closer judicial scrutiny. Marie Lona and Melissa Benzon explain how
  • Italy is restricting new issues The Bank of Italy is increasingly using a controversial rule to stop investment banks selling complex securities to Italian institutional and retail investors, say bankers and lawyers working in the Italian market.
  • Europe's member states will implement the Prospectus Directive within the next year. Here, Tim Morris, looks at the impact of the Directive on convertible and exchangeable bonds
  • Aventis and Sanofi-Synthelabo are set to merge after a tense three-month standoff. But at what price? Megan Murphy looks at whether a regulatory decision could leave French companies more vulnerable to takeover
  • The Finance Act 2004, enacted on March 25 2004, clarified the Irish value-added tax (VAT) treatment of collateral management services provided to Irish SPVs.
  • The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline financing is one of the most complex yet, involving 11 sponsors and crossing three countries. Stewart Robertson and Craig Jones explain how the deal works