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   "text": "In US securities class actions plaintiffs may proceed on the fraud on the market theory rather than proving actual reliance on misleading statements, an approach that has been rejected in most other countries.",
   "abstract": "theory' rather than requiring plaintiffs to prove actual reliance on",
   "citation": "Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Extraterritorial Application of US Securities Law – Will the US Become the Default Jurisdiction for (2010). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1664809",
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   "text": "German corporate law permits increases in voting rights only in very limited circumstances, such as grandfathered multiple voting shares, so the proposed voting rights increase would require statutory reform in Germany.",
   "abstract": "German corporate law allows an increase in voting rights only in very limited circumstances, such as grandfathering provisions for shares with multiple voting rights that were created before the enactment of the Corporations Act",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Christoph Henkel, Contingent Capital with Sequential Triggers (2011). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1908473",
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