Legal effects and legal consequences of certificates of representation of foundations with legal capacity

In the case of legal transactions, foundation boards are happy to rely on certificates of representation issued by the foundation supervisory authority as legitimation. The legal quality of such documents and the legal consequences and legal effects they entail are questionable. The following contribution is intended to show that the legal certainty sought by the […]

Faulty software attestations, certificates and attestations: Theses on the liability of the management or managers, as well as software houses, auditors and other alleged experts

A reply to Stritters Forum tips of 13.10.2007   Some business managers can be blinded by attestations, certificates and certifications when purchasing software: Not only the content with many ifs and buts, but especially the liability situation shows that these are regularly samples without value.   Manager liability Even from a medium-sized GmbH, the management […]

Certificates and derivatives: Investors’ contribution to losses in the subprime crisis

Renowned credit institutions sold “guarantee” certificates and similar constructs, for example those of Lehman Brothers Bank, to gullible bank customers as safe investments: Bank and savings bank advisors are thus today often liable for the reversal. The advisors regularly did not read the certificate conditions or sales brochures, which can be up to 200 pages […]

Initiator support and controlling: products, such as profit participation certificates, sometimes prove to be a placement fiasco

*by Johannes Fiala, lawyer (Munich), MBA Financial Services (Univ.Wales), MM (Univ.), certified financial and investment advisor (A.F.A.), banker (www.fiala.de) Ad-hoc release of 02.01.2006 – Allgemeine HypothekenBank Rheinboden AG (AHBR): “AHBR expects negative net result for 2005, Frankfurt am Main, 2 January 2006 Allgemeine HypothekenBank Rheinboden AG (AHBR) expects a negative net result for the 2005 […]

Initiator support and controlling: products, such as participation certificates, sometimes prove to be a placement fiasco*.

The ad-hoc release from 02.01.2006 – Allgemeine HypothekenBankRheinboden AG (AHBR): “AHBR expects negative annual result for 2005, Frankfurt am Main,2 January 2006Allgemeine HypothekenBank Rheinboden AG (AHBR) expects a negative after-tax result for the 2005 financial year. Thiswill be in the range of EUR 1.1 to 1.3 billion, according to the Bank’s preliminary estimates. The background […]

Forced renovation

How expensive will the dream of home ownership For many people, the dream of owning their own home is a lifelong goal and an integral part of private wealth accumulation. Hardly any other investment symbolizes security, stability and the realization of personal dreams as much as a home of one’s own. Often, the path to […]

Complex asset management

Long-term planning but in line with demand If you earn money, you have to learn how to handle it. On the one hand, it is important to be able to cover the needs of daily life and, on the other, to ensure long-term financial stability. Satisfying the basic needs of a human being is only […]

General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) also protects members of professional associations

– Why professional associations must treat members the same as employees ? –   “Mountaineers: two men whose purpose is to climb mountains”. (Expedition to Kilimanjaro, Monty Python’s Wonderful World of Gravity) The General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) has been in force since 2006, which has made employers in particular very cautious. For example, by […]

Alternative investments

How to protect your assets Where to put all that money? An admittedly somewhat gloating question that will certainly only concern a portion of our readership, but could be all the more valuable for them. Cash is dead, long live cash. Not only since the current inflation (2022) of more than 7%, we are noticing […]

What is the cost of turning employees into contributing family members and back?

– Case by case EUR 50,000, insolvency or three years for fraud or tax evasion –   Social security clearing as a pernicious fraud scheme Already to 05.05.2006 took place in Munich the first symposium for the recovery (also allegedly) wrongly paid social security contributions for mediators of all kinds from the insurance industry. The […]