Germany: Listing Rules & Flotation

On 8 October 2024, the Council of the EU, formally adopted the EU's Listing Act packageShow Footnote. The package, which is a key priority of the EU's Capital Markets Union (CMU), seeks to make EU public capital markets...

In the Frosta judgment (2013), the German Federal Court of Justice reversed its ruling made in the Macrotron case (2002) regarding delisting in Germany.

In response to the new duties contained within the new statutory framework for the treatment of residual waste, the city of Halle, like many other German municipalities, decided last year partly to privatize some of its responsibilities connected with the treatment of residual waste and to form a new company in this context, which it intends to manage with a strategic partner.