Peter Behrens: “Anwendung des deutschen Eigenkapitalersatzrechts auf Scheinauslandsgesellschaften” – the English abstract reads as follows: This is the first decision of a German insolvency court applying the new German legal rules on shareholder loans in case of insolvency of a pseudo-foreign company (i.e. an English private company limited by shares doing business exclusively in Germany). [read post]

Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin said he would speed the proposal through the Senate at the outset of the new biennium. [read post]

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