The Dutch State Secretary of Finance has announced in a letter dated 17 January 2017 the intention to discontinue the voluntary disclosure scheme. more…
Buren advises Live Nation's Ticketmaster, in respect of its acquisition of secondary ticketing firm Seatwave, on of Europe’s leading online platforms for the resale of tickets. more…
Buren advises a conglomerate of banks and other financiers on proactively restructuring loans, worth USD 450 million, of Hercules Offshore. more…
The international tax system is under significant pressure. Where the OECD started the BEPS project and has published recommendations to reform this system, also the EU with its Anti-Tax Avoidance more…
In June we already posted that Luxembourg introduced a new legal publication system and that it would soon adopt a “1-Euro-company”.The latter indeed occurred in July, and this type of company will be available as from 16 January 2017. more…
Luxembourg is aiming in reducing the administrative burdens. As part of this project, it has been modernizing the Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register ("Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés" - "RCS"). The last step of this modernization was to simplify the legal publication system. more…
Buren advises Synthomer, a leading specialty chemicals company and listed on the London Stock Exchange, on the USD 226 million acquisition of HEXION Performance more…
The Dutch State Secretary of Finance has recently issued amended Decrees on the Dutch direct tax treatment of Dutch limited partnerships (or similar organized foreign law partnerships) and socalled funds for joint account (FGRs). more…
Buren advises Lloyd's Register Group on the sale of its international rail business (active in the UK, continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia) to Ricardo plc. Lloyd's Register Group Limited is a technical and business services organisation and a maritime classification society with an more…
Buren advises Petra Diamonds on the Dutch legal aspects of a USD 300 million high-yield bond offer and related refinancing arrangement, to more…
Buren advises Viad Corp, as Dutch legal counsel, in respect of its acquisition of N200 Limited and affiliates, a more…
Buren advises Cintas on the sale of its Dutch and Belgium Document Storage and Imaging businesses, consisting of approximately 100 employees, to OASIS. The transaction completes the exit of Cintas in the document management business. more…
