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In its draft law of April 20, 2026, the Federal Government is presenting its proposal to transpose the Gas and Hydrogen Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/1788) into national law.

On 28 July 2025, the European Commission launched an in-depth investigation under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2022/2560, EU-FSR) to review the proposed acquisition of Covestro AG by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company PJSC.

Following the publication of an initial draft (German version only) by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) about an amendment to the German Act against Restraints...

On March 13, 2020, the European Commission approved and cleared the first European State Aid scheme operated by Denmark to compensate organisers of events for loss or damage caused by...

The adopted provisions of Regulation (EU) 269/2014 are largely aimed at weakening the Russian and Belarusian financial sectors.

On 29 November 2024, the German Federal Cartel Office published the results of its merger control review of Microsoft Corporation's ("Microsoft") hiring of almost all of Inflection AI, Inc.'s...

The German Federal Court of Justice has confirmed that the Federal Cartel Office was right to conclude that processing of German end-customer data (on behalf of German business customers) constituted...

Zum Ende der Legislaturperiode sind wichtige Entscheidungen zu zentralen Compliance-Gesetzgebungsvorhaben der Bundesregierung getroffen worden...

Following the ECJ's landmark judgment in Illumina/GRAIL, the Commission's "secret weapon" to catch below the threshold mergers, Article 22 referrals, is off the table, at least in its original version.

Genussrechte sind eine beliebte Form der Beteiligung an Unternehmen, insbesondere im Bereich von Venture Capital/Startups.

Das OLG Hamm hat entschieden, dass gesellschaftsvertragliche Wettbewerbsverbote auch auf hundertprozentige Tochtergesellschaften erstreckt werden können, wenn wirtschaftliche Identität besteht. Die Entscheidung klärt zudem die Anforderungen an die sachliche Reichweite solcher Verbote und die prozessualen Voraussetzungen nach § 46 Nr. 8 GmbHG im Eilverfahren.

The MedTech industry historically has been one of the more stable sectors. But, with multiple disruptive forces now at play, no one is immune. While some disruptions may have a more...

The Federal Court of Justice has issued a landmark ruling clarifying whether employees of joint ventures can be counted toward the 500-employee threshold required for mandatory employee representation on supervisory boards under Germany's One-Third Participation Act. This decision resolves a long-standing controversy in corporate co-determination law with significant implications for how companies structure their corporate groups and joint ventures.

At the end of the legislative period, important decisions on central compliance legislative proposals of the German Federal Government were made.

On 20 December 2022, the German Act on the Introduction of an Electricity Price Brake [Gesetz zur Einführung einer Strompreisbremse, StromPBG] and the German Act...

As outlined in our previous briefing, there is an ongoing international trend towards mandatory human rights due diligence legislation, which is gaining further momentum and support across the globe.

Increasing geopolitical tensions have triggered a fundamental change in European and German security policy and establishing European defence capabilities is more important than ever.