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German Government and Business Responses to Sovereign Wealth

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Last week, the German cabinet approved a new takeover law which (primarily) has sovereign investors especially those fromChina and Russia at target. The new law would make it easier to block acquisitions of more than a 25 percent stake in German firms by foreign entities not based in the EU if such a purchase might be deemed to pose a threat to public security or order. This does seem more restrained than previous rumored bills. Germany’s process to implement a takeover law were triggered in part by a Russian bank’s stake in EADS, and past drafts, which could have blocked other EU[...]

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