With the Amendment of the Austrian Copyright Act, which came into force on 31 December 2021, the Austrian Copyright contract law was overhauled.

Since 9 January 2016, traders established within the Union engaging in online sales or service contracts must provide new information on their websites.

June 2026 – A credit institution operating lawfully within the EU may not refuse to open a basic payment account for an individual solely...

Erstmals sollen unternehmerische Sorgfaltspflichten in Bezug auf Menschenrechte und Umweltstandards auf Zuliefererbetriebe in Drittländern ausgedehnt werden.

On 30 June 2017, Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading...

In seiner Entscheidung C-633/20 vom 29.09.2022 erkannte der EuGH jüngst, dass unter den Begriff des Versicherungsvermittlers bzw des Versicherungsvertreibers auch eine juristische Person fällt...

With effect as per 1 July 2013, the Austrian legislator has enacted an amendment to the Limited Liability Companies Act providing primarily for a decrease of the minimum share capital to EUR 10,000, as well as a decrease of the formation costs.

The Austrian Federal Government agreed in its 2013-2018 work programme, on the implementation of a nationwide ban on speculative financial transactions for the Federation, the Austrian Federal States, Austrian Municipalities, and other public bodies.

Der europäische und der österreichische Gesetzgeber verstärken 2022 ihren Fokus auf Sustainable Finance. Neben Finanzdienstleistern, die ebenfalls immer strenger reguliert werden, ...

In the second half of 2017 both Austria and Germany introduced transaction value based thresholds as alternatives to purely turnover based thresholds that trigger the obligation to obtain merger control approval.

On 6 April 2017 the Austrian Parliament adopted significant amendments to the Austrian merger control system, introducing a transaction value test that extends the reach of Austrian merger control.

Digital antitrust is having a moment. Antitrust cases against tech giants are being discussed on talk shows and podcasts and in connection with buzzwords like "Big Tech" or "Big Data"...

2022 bringt mit dem Gewährleistungsrichtlinien-Umsetzungsgesetz (GRUG) ein erhebliches Update für das Gewährleistungsrecht.

By law, every Austrian stock corporation (Aktiengesellschaft; AG) must have a supervisory board (Aufsichtsrat; SB).

Capital measures are common reorganisation measures when a capital company is in financial crisis, including eg injection of fresh capital by way of a capital increase.

Agile project methods have been a topic of conversation for years.

The fight against corruption has intensified over the past few years, causing the issue of corporate compliance to become ever more important.

A Seller must be aware that any deal can "die" and in the cur­rent M&A envi­ron­ment, the chances that a deal dies are – quite frankly and unfor­tu­nately – not low.

If con­fir­ma­tion was ever needed of the impor­tance of infor­ma­tion for deal-making, the (joint) award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Eco­nomic Sci­ences to Eugene F. Fama drove home the point.

In a high-profile case of global interest, the Austrian Constitutional Court ruled on the Squeeze Out Act (the "Act") that was introduced in 2006.