This presentation highlights the challenges—as well as the resulting risks and legal uncertainties—of relocating certification processes for European Directive 2014/34/EU outside of the EU.

Last year, by judgement dated 28 September 2021 (16 KLs 406 Js 59398/16 inter alia), the Regional Court [Landgericht, LG] of Braunschweig acquitted four high-ranking managers...

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

The European Central Bank has issued an urgent directive to major financial institutions requiring comprehensive action plans to counter rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats powered by frontier artificial intelligence models. With an October 2026 deadline looming, banks must demonstrate concrete measures across vulnerability management, monitoring capabilities, and third-party risk controls as AI-enabled attacks compress the timeline between threat discovery and exploitation. This supervisory escalation s

The technological changes brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution have increased the complexity and sophistication of industrial espionage. In this context, complying with legal standards...