Investment Management

March 1, 2016

The govern­ment draft of the Act im­ple­men­ting UCITS V pro­vided that open-ended funds were per­mitted to re­struc­ture and pro­lon­gate pre­viously ac­quired loans. How­ever, the Ger­man open-ended special AIFs were ex­clu­ded from that ge­ne­ral per­mission. The Finan­cial Committee of the Ger­man Bundes­tag ... (more)

February 29, 2016

We are de­ligh­ted to announce that Legal 500 Ger­many recog­nizes Bö­decker Ernst & Part­ner as a “Leading Firm” for tax. The “very high level of ex­per­tise and un­der­stan­ding of the needs of the clients”, of both name part­ners, Carsten Bö­decker and ... (more)

February 18, 2016

In re­la­tion to the IGA dated May 23, 2013 and the Or­di­nance Re­gu­la­ting the Im­ple­men­ta­tion of FATCA dated July 23, 2014 (Um­set­zungs­ver­ord­nung), the most im­port­ant issue is whether a Ger­man entity quali­fies as a finan­cial insti­tu­tion (FI) or as an active or ... (more)

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