Italy: Investment Strategy

Tra i cambiamenti, l'introduzione di un regime armonizzato per l'erogazione diretta di prestiti oltre a nuove regole per la gestione dei fondi di erogazione di credito. La versione definitiva è attesa per la primavera.

With the aim of stimulating the investments in the Italian southern regions (s.c. "Mezzogiorno"), the Italian Government has approved a new law decree, namely the "Southern Decree"...

How to recover money lost in trading? The first and most important step is to report any suspicious activities that have occurred.

Italy has not yet implemented the Directive on Takeover Bids (Directive 2004/25/EC, the "Directive") in its internal legal system. However, Italian tender offer rules currently in force, as set forth in Legislative Decree no. 58 of February 24, 1998, and CONSOB Regulation no. 11971 of May 14, 1999, already provide for many of the concepts set forth in the Directive, since the Italian legislation, when enacted, was based on a previous draft of the Directive.

This article describes the basic features of the regulatory and tax regimes applicable to real estate funds under Italian law.

On January 20, 2004, the European Union Council of Ministers approved Council Regulation No. 139/2004 EC Merger Regulation (ECMR), a new merger law that became effective on May 1, 2004, concerning the control of concentrations between undertakings. This new regulation, which replaced Regulation 4064/89, increases the powers of the commission to review and block transactions that have a European Community scope. It also introduces more flexibility to the notification review process.