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An overview of Italy’s new rules on executive pay transparency
On 23 December 2011, the Italian Financial Authority ‘Consob’ adopted a resolution to implement new regulations on executive compensation of Italian listed companies. Latham & Watkins describe the main innovations introduced by the Resolution and discusses the new regime on Issuer transparency.
Law Firm: Latham & Watkins | Published: 24 May 2012 | Practice Area: Regulation and Compliance
An introduction to Italy’s new Corporate Governance Code
On 5 December 2011, the Italian Committee for Corporate Governance published a revised code of Corporate Governance for listed companies. The new code provides listed companies with best practices on corporate governance. This article discusses the principal changes introduced by the new code.
Law Firm: Latham & Watkins | Published: 28 February 2012 | Practice Area: Corporate Governance
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Tax deductions in leveraged buy-outs: a storm is brewing
A new regime now in force aims to exclude the financial costs relating to the acquisition of equity shares from the tax-deductible charges on the results of a holding company. This briefing gives an overview of the new rules and a summary of the main provisions around Europe.
Law Firm: Wragge & Co | Published: 04 January 2012 | Practice Area: Enforcement and Regulation
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West Tankers v Allianz: court allows enforcement of declaratory arbitration award
A recent decision in West Tankers v Allianz SpA and another, saw Field J hold the declaratory award could be enforced under the Arbitration Act 1996. West Tankers’ purpose in making this application was to prevent any irreconcilable judgment of the Italian court from being enforceable in England.
Law Firm: Macfarlanes LLP | Published: 19 July 2011 | Practice Area: Arbitration
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A European dictionary of legal terms – common phrases in key languages
This guide in French from Eversheds provides definitions of key legal phrases used throughout Europe, translated into English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. It aims to help in-house lawyers and company management doing cross-border business understand the broad terms of a contract.
Law Firm: Eversheds | Published: 05 July 2011 | Practice Area: Cross-border: Commercial and International Trade
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Litigation and dispute resolution – whose contract is it anyway?
This Macfarlanes briefing considers a recent case in which the applicant sought to resist the enforcement of an arbitration award. The challenge was made on the basis that the tribunal did not have jurisdiction to make the award because there was no contract (and therefore no arbitration agreement).
Law Firm: Macfarlanes LLP | Published: 18 May 2011 | Practice Area: Arbitration
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Overview of public incentives for producing electricity from renewable energy sources
Eversheds has produced this overview of public incentives for producing electricity from renewable energy sources in Italy.
Law Firm: Eversheds | Published: 18 August 2010 | Practice Area: Renewables
Tax aspects of doing solar business in Italy
This briefing from NCTM outlines some potential tax issues that may arise during a typical acquisition structure for photovoltaic plants.
Law Firm: NCTM | Published: 19 July 2010 | Practice Area: Renewables
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Italy: Supreme Court judgment establishes constitutional illegitimacy of certain provisions of Puglia regional law
This article by NCTM analyses a 22 March 2010 Supreme Court judgment which established the constitutional illegitimacy of certain provisions of Puglia Regional Law No. 31 of 21 October 2008, and asks what destiny now awaits several affected photovoltaic projects in the region.
Law Firm: NCTM | Published: 12 July 2010 | Practice Area: Renewables
Moving to Italy? Tax benefits for wealthy individuals
Italy has for decades tempted foreigners for its natural beauty, history, delicious food, good climate and quality of life, but these days the tax factor may be another reason for foreigners to move to the country, says NCTM.
Law Firm: NCTM | Published: 09 July 2010 | Practice Area: Income Tax
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