The dramatic drop in prices on the German stock exchange in the period from2000 to 2003 was one cause for the rising number of delistings in Germany. Thisdevelopment triggered the study on the aptitude of listed companies to remainlisted although the authors were well aware that a negative...

The report deals with the current legal questions relating to the trading, workingout and outsourcing of non-performing loans. Within this framework the basic legalprovisions and the problems arising therefrom, for example, in the area of dataprotection or banking secrecy, are explained and...

Pledges on shares and stocks are common as securities for loans. New are theattempts by pledgees to sell pledges in public auctions. The questions regardingthe requirements for such public auctions have not been answered either by Ge rmancourt decisions or literature. This fact helps the...

Despite the common view that there is inherently a relationship of confliction, it is now impossible to imagine the financing of family-owned enterprises in Germany without the alternative method of Private Equity financing. Based on a survey on Private Equity in family owned companies...

The report deals with the current legal questions relating to the trading, working out and outsourcing of non-performing loans. Within this framework the basic legal provisions and the problems arising therefrom, for example, in the area of data protection or banking secrecy, are explained and...