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This handbook offers the most comprehensive analysis by far of corporate judicial review procedures. Up to 75 data points were collected for each of over 400 squeeze outs and the ensuing judicial review procedures (as of the end of 2013) from the German Protection Agency for Consumers (VzfK) to create an incomparable resource base of data and facts that will be of enormous value to practitioners in judicial review procedures.

Increasingly, transnational corporations, developed countries and private actors are broadening the boundaries of their investments into new territories, in search of a higher return on capital. This growth in direct foreign investment involves serious concerns for both the investor and host state. Various exponents of international civil society and non-governmental organisations persuasively claim that such growth in foreign investments constitutes potential and serious hazards both to the environment and the fundamental rights and freedoms of local populations.

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Foreign direct investment in the natural resource industries is fostered through the signing of concession agreements between the host State and the investor. However, such concessions are susceptible to alteration by the host State, meaning that many investors now require the insertion of stabilization clauses. These are provisions that require the host State to agree that they will not take any administrative or legislative action that would adversely affect the rights of the investor.

Arguing that it is necessary to have some form of flexibility in concession agreements...

It's no secret that investment advisers to hedge funds, private equity, and other private funds have been subjected to intense regulatory scrutiny of late. Yet, until recently, most were not required to register under the Investment Advisers Act and were not subject to any of its rules.

Enter the market crisis of 2008.

In the fallout, Dodd-Frank amended the Act, ushering in a new world of government oversight for private fund advisers-a world fraught with pitfalls

Among other things, fund advisers are expected to adopt compliance programs to meet the requirements of innumerable...

Mit dem Kleinanlegerschutzgesetz hat der Gesetzgeber jungst den Luckenschluss zum KAGB beschlossen und in einer Vielzahl von Materien die Position der Kleinanleger gestarkt. Zahlreiche einschlagige Gesetze, allen voran das Vermogensanlagegesetz, werden hier erstmals im Zusammenhang kommentiert. So bietet dieser Kommentar vor allem der Praxis der Anlegerberatung ein unverzichtbares Handwerkszeug.

With Wasting a Crisis, Paul G. Mahoney offers persuasive research to show that this now almost...