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Austria recently experienced a significant boom in start-ups and has produced some major international players (eg, Runtastic, bwin, last.fm and Whatchado).

Multi-jurisdictional merger control filings have gained in complexity in the recent past. For once, more and more countries around the world have introduced merger control regimes.

In response to the initial outbreak of COVID-19 several countries declared a state of emergency.

Management teams have found themselves confronted by a whole new world of perilous risks since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On 15 December 2023, Austria's National Council of the Parliament (lower house) adopted the Flexible Company Act (Flexible-Kapitalgesellschafts-Gesetz, FlexKapGG)...

Welcome to our to the point newsletter. Every month we look back at the most relevant developments in the area of financial regulation in the CEE region.

In summer 2021 the European Banking Authority published Draft Guidelines on the limited network exemption (LNE) under the Payment Service Directive 2 for consultation.

On 14 April 2025, the Council of the EU gave its final green light on the so-called "Stop‑the‑clock Directive" postponing the application dates of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (EU)...

During the first half of 2010 the number of M&A transactions increased by approximately 20%. Due also to the headline transactions announced during the summer months namely the bwin/Partygaming cross border merger and the acquisition by INTEL Corporation of Infineon's WLS business, the record is improving also on a volume basis.

Mit Ablauf des 31. 12. 2020 endete der in Art 126 des Austrittsabkommens zwischen der EU und dem Vereinigten Königreich vereinbarte Übergangszeitraum und damit auch die Anwendbarkeit der bis dahin in Geltung stehenden Verordnung ...

The Austrian legal system is steeped in civil law. Laws are based on codes and statutes. Civil procedure contemplates an adversarial process with inquisitorial elements...

Welcome to the October edition of Schoenherr's to the point: technology & digitalisation newsletter!

Welcome to the March edition of Schoenherr's to the point: technology & digitalisation newsletter (read online)! We are excited to present a selection of legal developments in the area of technology & digitalisation...

Dne 19. 7. 2024 nabyla účinnosti novela zákona o přeměnách, která do českého právního řádu transponovala s více než půlročním zpožděním evropskou směrnici týkající se přeshraničních přeměn.

This overview of the impact of the coronavirus on submissions, deadlines and meetings with competition authorities in CEE will be regularly updated.

We keep reinventing ourselves, and challenge the status quo with curiosity and smarts – we evolve.

Austrian law expressly recognises and protects a bank's duty of confidentiality (sometimes referred to as 'bank secrecy') with respect to information received by or relating to its customers. This duty is primarily governed by s 38(1) to (4) (scope and exceptions) and s 101 (criminal liability) of the Banking Act (BWG) and supplemented by several provisions of a procedural nature such as the Revenues Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code.