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Preparations for the phase after the German Coronavirus Insolvency Suspension Act ends - between crisis and normality
In this post and also in three further posts we will share our thoughts on what you can do over the next ten weeks to strategically prepare for issues relating to the workplace, financing and…
Upcoming extensive regulatory framework – Will Europe serve as a worldwide legal lighthouse in the digital era?
The European Commission seems to be taking its plans to promote Europe as a worldwide legal lighthouse in the digital economy seriously. Recently, the public consultation phase on the White Paper on…
Athletes, their freedom of opinion and expression and COVID-19: some thoughts on the dismissal of Joshiko Saibou
This week, the basketball club Telekom Baskets Bonn dismissed its player and employee Joshiko Saibou without notice. The reason for the termination without notice that was given on the club’s website…
Germany’s first “anti-anti-suit injunction”
By judgment of 2 October 2019 (file no. 21 O 9333/19), the Regional Court of Munich I issued the first so-called anti-anti-suit injunction in Germany, which has now been confirmed by the…
Video calls with doctors: some interesting facts to know about video consultations
A little more than a year ago, in March and April 2019, the German National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung – KBV) conducted a representative…
The German Federal Court of Justice has ruled on the dispute between the chocolate manufacturers Ritter Sport and Milka: Ritter Sport continues to be the only square chocolate
(BGH, Decisions of 23.07.2020, case nos. I ZB 42/19 and I ZB 43/19) The legal dispute between Ritter Sport and Milka, which spanned a period of ten years, has now been decided by the German Federal…
New registration and disclosure obligations for companies and branches in Croatia
The Croatian legislator has reformed the court register. Companies based in Croatia are obliged in future to have their email addresses entered into the court register. A further novelty is the…
The forgotten Brexit negotiations
Unfortunately, the seventh round of the Brexit negotiations relating to an EU-UK free trade agreement have failed to make any significant progress. The positions of the parties appear to have…
Corona pandemic - undesirable tax side effects
In Germany, around 814,000 people currently are employed in the automotive industry, which is around three percent less than in the same month of the previous year. Hildegard Müller, President of the…
ECJ overturns EU-U.S. privacy shield: regulatory authorities and companies comment on the ruling (overview)
Following the European Court of Justice’s decision to declare the EU-U.S. privacy shield invalid, companies and authorities must now examine on what basis personal data can be transferred to the USA.…