Les opérations de restructuration de sociétés (classiquement les opérations de fusion, scission et apport partiel d’actifs soumis au régime des scissions) sont soumises, et c’est là que réside tout leur avantage, au principe de la transmission universelle du patrimoine. Ainsi dans le cas d’une fusio...

By: François MEUNIER

The city of Sydney is the financial capital of Australia. It is regional headquarters for around 500 global corporations. Sydney is also home to 90 commercial and merchant banks, as well as the Australian Stock Exchange (“ASX”) and the Sydney Futures Exchange (see Sydney City Council website (http...

By: Andrew Priestley

A fundamental principle involved in the restructuring of companies (typically through mergers, demergers and partial asset contributions pursuant to the rules governing demergers) – and it is a major advantage of these operations – is the transfer of all corporate property and obligations. Hence, i...

By: François Meunier

Facing globalization and the development of the European market, the manager of a business must create within its group of companies « an organized infrastructure that is capable, in addition to providing the indispensable tools for effective marketing, of framing the activities and making them achi...

By: François Meunier

Thanks to the current economic boom and to the fact that after the accession of the Czech Republic into the EU, even the most geographically ignorant investors have realized that the Czech Republic is not one of those many Central and Eastern European countries that are not sufficiently trustworthy ...

By: Milan Kyjovský

I. BACKGROUND

1. Introduction

China's accession to the World Trade Organisation two years ago has unleashed unprecedented foreign investment. Statistics released by the Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) (the successor of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, established in 2003) i...

By: Julia Charlton

China has become a favourite topic during the last years. And the interest of China keeps increasing. But the opinions vary regarding the consequences of the Chinese progress – mainly for the highly developed countries and their companies – is it good or bad for their business?

By: Christer Wagenius