European Cross-Border Mergers and Reorganizations

The most comprehensive guide to all cross-border reorganisation techniques available to European companies, European Cross-Border Mergers and Reorganisations is the ideal reference tool for lawyers, auditors, notaries and scholars working in the field.

Providing everything a practitioner needs to co-ordinate a successful cross-border merger, the book analyses the EU Directives and how they have been applied in each of the main EU/EEA member states. The diverging rules for each jurisdiction are highlighted and explained enabling quick comparisons to be made between countries for assessing feasibility of the chosen technique.

As well as the requirements, formalities and potential pitfalls of cross-border mergers, each country analysis addresses the relevant aspects of corporate, employment and tax law such as informing shareholders and employees, verification of the legality of the merger, and language requirements.

The book also considers other cross-border reorganisation techniques, such as demergers, partial demergers, the transfer of branches of activity, the creation of a Societas Europaea or a Societas Cooperativa Europea, and the cross-border transfer of a company's head office or registered office, providing a practical guide to the best possible solution for a practitioner's client. European Cross-Border Mergers and Reorganisations is an easy-to-use reference work for legal, tax and audit professionals involved in mergers.

Ji??ri??me VERMEYLEN, ALTIUS, Avenue du Port 86C, B.414, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, Tel: +32 2 426 14 14, Fax: +32 2 426 20 30, e-mail: jerome.vermeylen@altius.com

Ji??ri??me VERMEYLEN is a partner at ALTIUS (in co-operation with Tiberghien) (www.altius.com), a leading independent Belgian law firm. He has practised at the Brussels Bar since 1997 and has studied at the University of Leuven, Belgium (Lic. Jur., cum laude 1995), the University of Amiens, France (Erasmus Exchange Programme, 1991), Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, UK (Erasmus Exchange Programme, 1994), the University of Ti??bingen and High Court of Di??sseldorf, Germany (DAAD Special Programme in German Law, 1996), and the University of Brussels, Belgium (Special Degree in Corporate Law, cum laude 2000). Ji??ri??me specialises in M&A, private equity, and corporate reorganisations. He has assisted numerous clients in relation to both domestic and cross-border acquisitions, joint ventures, investments and reorganisations. Ji??ri??me is a member of AIJA, the German-Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce (Debelux), and the Belgo-Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BICC&I).

Ivo VANDE VELDE, Tiberghien, Avenue du Port 86C, B.419, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, Tel: +32 2 773 40 00, Fax: + 32 2 773 40 55, e-mail: ivo.vandevelde@tiberghien.com

IVO VANDE VELDE is a senior tax lawyer at Tiberghien (in co-operation with ALTIUS) (www.tiberghien.com), a leading Belgian specialist tax-law firm. He practises at the Brussels Bar and is a graduate of the University of Antwerp (Lic. Jur., magna cum laude 1987) and of the Vlerick School of Management in Ghent (Master's degree in Tax Law, magna cum laude 1988). As a corporate tax lawyer, he specialises in M&A and domestic and cross-border corporate reorganisations. He has published several articles and other contributions on domestic and cross-border mergers and divisions. He has given presentations at several seminars about the Belgian implementation of the Merger Tax Directive.