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Tenancy Law: The one who commissions the agent has to pay – “Bestellerprinzip” in Austria postponed but not repealed

To the great relief in the real estate industry, the “Bestellerprinzip” for lease agreements did not yet come before the election, but according to the media, it is far from being off the table.

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Taking Videos of Police Operations – An interference with the rights of police officers?

Our Partner Sonja Dürager, specialised amongst others in IT-law, trademark, copyright, data protection, and unfair competition, wrote an article in German: Taking Videos of Police Operations – An interference with the rights of police officers?

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Meet us in Rust at the RuSt 2019

Annual conference for law and taxes (Business Circle). The organisation of the work stream for capital markets law is led by Christoph Nauer. Lecture “Internet-Business and Antitrust” by Astrid Ablasser-Neuhuber. Workshop on M&A litigation by Thomas Lettau and “Update Corporate and Capital Markets Law” with Christoph Nauer.

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Who´s Who Legal – Recognition for our Partner

We are glad to announce that four of our partners once again have been recognised for their legal expertise as Global Leaders by Who´s Who Legal

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The Legal 500 & The In-House Lawyer Comparative Legal Guide for Merger Control in Austria

This country-specific Q&A provides an overview to merger control laws and regulations that may occur in Austria. It will cover jurisdictional thresholds, the substantive test, process, remedies, penalties, appeals as well as the author’s view on planned future reforms of the merger control regime.

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Austrian Supreme Court permits assignment of rescission claims in the event of insolvency

For the first time the Austrian Supreme Court permitted the assignment of rescission claims and thus opposed the legal opinion of the two lower instances as well as the predominant opinion of the doctrine.

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Meet our Real Estate Partners at the Expo Real in Munich

Our two Real Estate specialists, Michaela Pelinka and Dominik Geyer, Partners at bpv Huegel, will participate at the upcoming Expo Real, the International Trade Fair for Property and Investment in Munich.

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Related Party Transactions – Updates for the Supervisory Board

Transactions concluded with related companies or persons require the approval of the Supervisory Board above a certain threshold value and publication in accordance with a further threshold value…

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Heads up: EBA guidelines on outsourcing enter into force on 30 September 2019

The Guidelines on Outsourcing (EBA/GL/2019/02) issued by the European Banking Authority (EBA) on 25 February 2019 enter into force on 30 September 2019. In addition to credit institutions – to which the CEBS guidelines on outsourcing previously already applied – investment firms, payment institutions and e-money institutions are also addressed by the guidelines.

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Penalties of millions for missing wage documents violate EU law – an ECJ decision

The ECJ has ruled that high administrative sanctions based on the principle of cumulation can constitute a violation of the freedom to provide services and thus violate EU law.

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