European Union: Shareholders

The Irish High Court has ruled that shareholders no longer have an automatic right to access a company's privileged legal advice, abolishing the shareholder rule that previously allowed such disclosure. This landmark decision aligns Irish law with recent developments in England, Wales, and Bermuda, fundamentally reshaping the relationship between corporate privilege and shareholder information rights.

Cyprus company redomiciliation transfers a foreign company's registered office to Cyprus without dissolving it, preserving legal identity, contracts, assets and trading history. The process requires careful analysis of tax implications, asset valuation rules under Article 33B(3), and substance requirements to determine whether continuation is commercially worthwhile compared to incorporating a new Cyprus entity.

Der Bundesgerichtshof hat sich mit der Reichweite der gesellschafterlichen Treuepflicht bei Prozessfinanzierungsvereinbarungen zwischen einer GmbH und einem nahestehenden Gesellschafter befasst. Zugleich wurden grundlegende Anforderungen an die ordnungsgemäße Einberufung von Gesellschafterversammlungen und die Grenzen der Vertretungsmacht nach § 37 Abs. 2 GmbHG bei gesellschafterbeherrschten Vertragspartnern geklärt.

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Succession planning in family businesses requires careful navigation of generational transitions, tax implications, and governance structures.

Evidence of this is readily available in the U.S., where Novo Nordisk is currently facing multiple class action lawsuits from investors alleging disclosure failures relating to GLP-1 products and the weight-loss drug CagriSema.

Companies in Cyprus, like elsewhere, may encounter financial or structural difficulties that make it impossible to continue operating. In such cases, the law provides mechanisms to bring the life of a company to an end in an orderly and fair manner.

Malta has concluded over 80 double tax treaties with major trading partners worldwide to eliminate double taxation on both passive and active income.

Imagine operating a company, only to find without any warning that the company’s bank accounts have been blocked. The immediate consequence is one of acute disruption and uncertainty. You learn that a winding-up petition has been filed against the company, triggering restrictions that effectively prevent it from carrying out ordinary financial transactions. At that point, a pressing question arises: how is the business expected to continue operating under such constraints?