Many entrepreneurs offer vouchers for specific "events" on their website like a hot balloon ride in the particular case.

Milbank advised the shareholders of Saal Digital Group around Nordwind Capital on the sale of Saal Digital Group to Ardian and in connection with a substantial reinvestment by certain sellers.

Yesterday, the BKartA fined three consumer goods manufacturers for anti-competitive information exchanges amounting to € 38 million in total.

A foreign business with neither seat, place of management or branch in Germany may only appoint a fiscal representative to fulfil all German VAT obligations on its behalf and for its account where its only German sales are VAT-free and it has no input tax to be deducted. The fiscal representative may be anybody (person, firm or organisation) entitled to offer tax consulting services.

The German Competition Authority (Bundeskartellamt) published the final report of its market inquiry on messaging and video services.

Like the European Commission in a series of other projects, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) assessed and signed-off on ESG-related collaboration between competitors.

On 15 September 2011, the Higher Social Court in Darmstadt gave judgment on an annulment action brought by a statutory sickness fund against a request for information issued by the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO).

In July, the Federal Network Agency announced that its draft proposal for new transparency rules will be forwarded to the German parliament for approval soon.

The German business magazine Handelsblatt Rechtsboard recently published Frankfurt-based Antitrust associate Dr. Jens Steger's article on proposed updates to Germany's competition laws.

Ein Hersteller darf den Händlern im Rahmen eines selektiven Vertriebssystems nicht generell die Nutzung von Preissuchmaschinen verbieten, so das OLG Düsseldorf in der Entscheidung vom 5. April 2017.

Frankfurt-based Litigation associate Dr. Jens Steger published his article on recent developments in German antitrust law regarding big data in the "Expert's Corner" section of Handelsblatt, a leading German business newspaper.

In a press release in December 2012, the European Commission gave notice that the enforcement of standard-essential patents may constitute an abuse of a dominant market position if the challenged infringer is willing to take out a licence under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions.