Impact of the UK Bribery Act for CEE Investors – Managing Local Advisors & Consultants

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Impact of the UK Bribery Act for CEE Investors – Managing Local Advisors & Consultants

What are the implications of the UK Bribery Act 2010 for funds, companies and organizations operating in Central & Eastern Europe? The report is kindly provided to us by the Bulgarian office of Wolf Theiss - Central & Eastern Europe’s largest and also one of its most successful business law firms.

Failure to prevent advisors & consultants

The ...

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4 Main Principles for Buying Real Estate in Albania

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4 Main Principles for Buying Real Estate in Albania

All necessary information for obtaining real-estate in Albania including Basic Principles regarding the Real Estate Cadastre, General Requirements of the Purchase Contract, Necessary Permits, and Taxes. The article was kindly provided to us by the Bulgarian office of Wolf Theiss.

1) Basic Principles regarding the Real Estate Cadastre

Similar to other European countries, the acquisition ...

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Key Issues with Mergers & Acquisitions in Bulgaria

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Key Issues with Mergers & Acquisitions in Bulgaria

This publication was provided to Merar by our friends from DLA Paper back in 2010 and is intended to provide a brief overview of certain key issues likely to affect the structure and timing of mergers and acquisitions in Bulgaria.

It does not cover tax, EU or national competition issues (a wall-chart setting out merger ...

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Overseas IPOs Grew Popular Among VC and PE-backed Chinese High-Flying Firms

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Since last September, China’s overseas IPOs have taken place one after another in a quick succession. Even during the National Day holiday in China, which lasted from Oct.1 - 7, there were several Chinese firms that landed on overseas capital markets, including Mingyang Electric’s IPO on the NYSE and Lanxun Precision’s public ...

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Renewable Energy in Russia - A Giant Yet To Be Awakened

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Although Russia has a global image of an oil and gas supplier, the overwhelming size of the country implies a strong development potential for all renewable energy resources as well and current trends of state policy in the sector look more and more attractive to investors, according to a research commissioned by the Merar Investment ...

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Deloitte VC Industry Survey Supports Merar’s Choice of Geographical Focus (Part 2)

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Research findings confirm that Merar is strategically positioned to offer attractive opportunities to investors. In stark contrast to the gloomy sentiment of western VC firms, investors in the rapidly growing emerging economies of Asia and Latin America are markedly optimistic about their markets, according to the 2010 Global Venture Capital Survey of Deloitte and NVCA ...

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Deloitte VC Industry Survey Supports Merar’s Smart Choice of Geographical Focus (Part 1)

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Doing business in emerging markets is no longer just an option. It is a must, given the lackluster expectations of western VC firms about growth in their home markets. Merar, with its emerging-market focus, is serving this wave of investor interest that will keep washing around the world in the coming decades.

The 2010 Global ...

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The Right Frame of Mind for Seed Fund Seekers (How to Find Investors, Start and Present Investment Project?)

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If only we had the right frame of mind each time we start a project, odds for success would be much higher. Imagine someone taught us the right way of investing in stocks before trading in the market or driving like a professional before getting into a metropolitan traffic. Most times though this is not ...

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Relaunch: Merar Redesigned for 2011

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Merar begins Spring 2011 with a new design. Find out what has changed and why we have decided to upgrade our investment platfrom.

The new Merar is here! 

We launched Merar in October 2010 (the soft launch was made in June same year) with what we thought, the ambitious idea to become the Investment Network ...

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Investments in Emerging Markets are Increasingly Driven by Inflationary Fears in the US

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After the pull comes the push - at least as far as emerging market investments are concerned. The "pull force" is the attractiveness of emerging market opportunities for investors, while the increasingly important "push force" is the Federal Reserve's monetary policy which is pushing US money out of the country. The Fed's second round ...

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