GERMANY: Shareholder Notifications to BaFin and Issuers

Saturday March 28 2020

From 1 July 2020 submission notifications to BaFin and to the company must be made electronically. The notification to BaFin has to be submitted by using BaFin’s MVP-Portal. Further information to the electronical submission of a notification to BaFin and to the company can be obtained from the description of the according MVP-specialised procedure.

An overview of voting rights in listed companies can be found in a database on the BaFin website.

The FAQs on mandatory electronic submissions has also been updated.