The coronavirus has made it painfully clear how important it is for agreements to be as detailed as possible and to account for exceptional circumstances in order to avoid legal disputes. Save for a small number of restrictions, contract law starts from the assumption of contractual freedom. It is for the parties to settle on […]
Since the Romanian Companies Law (Law 31/1990) was passed in 1990 there have been amendments to it to make it more up to date rather than continue it in its original format. The original law was based on the French company law, and in 1990 there were very few advisors to the Romanian Government […]
The sale of goods and services requires an efficient distribution system that complies with complex domestic and international legal frameworks. An efficient distribution network is a key component of a company’s economic success, with different distribution channels for goods and services depending on the company’s industry. Legally sound collaboration with distribution partners based on mutual […]
The 2019 Hague Convention is supposed to greatly facilitate the cross-border enforcement of foreign judgments in civil and commercial matters. A ruling by a foreign court cannot necessarily be enforced in Germany, and the same is true of enforcing a ruling by a German court in a foreign country. While the rules governing the recognition […]
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ORDINANCE № 2 of 5 August 2020 on the implementation of measure 21 “Extraordinary temporary support for farmers and small and medium-sized enterprises, which are particularly affected by the crisis caused by COVID-19 of the Rural Development Program for the period 2014 – 2020” (hereinafter only the Ordinance) was published in the Bulgarian State Gazette […]
This article is one of many articles we have published concerning the legal implications of COVID-19. Please click here for our “COVID-19 Insights” page and other articles. As our readers will recall from earlier articles, the government had introduced new regulations relating to the short-term working subsidy in an effort to alleviate the effects Covid-19 had on employers […]
In this vlog Milan Gaber of Wolfs Advocaten discusses the position of the employment contract under Dutch Law. WATCH HERE
We provide herein our articles titled “CCOVID-19 Pandemic: Updates on the Provision of Export of Certain Medical Supplies in Indonesia” which discuss an update on the export provision that now allows the export of several types of medical supplies such as masks and Personal Protective Equipment (“PPE”), which previously had been temporarily prohibited from being exported. Please be […]
Investors who acquire new shares in the course of a corporate spin-off are not required to pay withholding tax on this. That was the verdict of the Finanzgericht (FG) München, the Fiscal Court of Munich (Az.: 8 K 981/17). Whether shareholders have to pay withholding tax in response to a stock split is a contentious […]
Intellectual property is just as worth protecting as tangible assets. IP law covers the protection of rights pertaining to trademarks, designs, patents, copyright, and related rights. When it comes to the term “intellectual property”, the first things people typically think of are works of art, literature, music, and the like. Yet the term is defined […]
We had shared in a previous article that natural and legal entities that deliver electronic commercial messages were now required to register with the Centralized Commercial Message Management System (“IYS”). The deadline for service providers to transfer opt-in consents of recipients to IYS was initially set as 1 June 2020 but this deadline was extended to 31 August 2020 […]
