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Germany is in the process of renewing its arbitration law, which in its current version dates from 1997. In April 2023, the German Federal Ministry of Justice (the "Ministry")...

Germany is in the process of renewing its arbitration law, which in its current version dates from 1997. In April 2023, the German Federal Ministry of Justice (the “Ministry”) published...

EQS-News: Branicks Group AG / Key word: Restructure of Company/Miscellaneous Branicks Group AG: Public announcement of the court discussion and voting date on 26. March 2024 /...

On January 22, the Hague District Court announced the verdict in the first Syrian regime-related trial in the Netherlands. It included a unique feature unseen in Europe: simultaneous translation and Arabic rebroadcast.

The German Government is planning to change the procedural and substantive legal framework on international criminal law in Germany, with an expert hearing having taken placed on 31 January 2024 before the German Parliament’s (Deutscher Bundestag) Legal Affairs Committee. One aspect appears to have been totally neglected by the current draft proposal: the issue of functional immunity from foreign criminal jurisdiction in case of core crime charges. In this post, I highlight an ambiguity regard...

Increasingly, employers are being made aware of employee misconduct that is evidenced by photos, videos or other social media posts. What are employers allowed to do when it comes to...

The Federal Court of Justice will announce on Thursday whether EU states can challenge international arbitration proceedings on energy investments in German courts. The first civil senate in...

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German real estate company Adler recently made headlines by successfully implementing a €6bn restructuring by way of a UK Part 26A Restructuring Plan. The Plan involved the...

Trademark Insight. With this format, we will be informing you at regular intervals about current trademark law decisions of German courts, the EUIPO and the European Union Courts. Each...