Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office has issued a press release detailing that the German authorities this morning have arrested 5 individuals as part of raids on premises in Lübeck, Frankfurt am Main, and Nuremberg.

The finance ministry has published its draft bill to transpose various EU amendments and ECJ cases into national law whilst taking the opportunity to make a number of editorial changes.

In unserem Podcast Anwalt & Architekt diskutieren Dr. Norbert Reuber (Hecker Werner Himmelreich), David Poschen (Hecker Werner Himmelreich), Juan Carlos Klug (Ankura) und Max Hoederath (Ankura)...

One of the obstacles in connection with the entry into force of the UPC has been the missing German ratification, the German Constitutional court having annulled the first ratification due to the lack of a two-third majority approval of the agreement.

In unserem Podcast Anwalt & Architekt diskutieren Dr. Norbert Reuber (Hecker Werner Himmelreich), David Poschen (Hecker Werner Himmelreich), Juan Carlos Klug (Ankura) und Max Hoederath (Ankura)...

The European Commission has proposed replacing the EU's three core procurement directives with a single, directly applicable Regulation that would fundamentally reshape how companies compete for public contracts across Member States. The reform introduces mandatory quality criteria thresholds, embeds ESG considerations as evaluation factors, and establishes new security and European-preference provisions that could restrict participation based on ownership, supply chain exposure, and strategic dependencies.

Germany's pay landscape is tightening quickly. With the EU Pay Transparency Directive due to be implemented by June 7, 2026, and German case law and legislation already reshaping exposure, now is the time to stress test your pay architecture.

The finance ministry has published a progress report on its efforts to date to simplify tax procedures with online assessment and collection.

Yesterday the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy sent out a circular on awards in the hopefully short corona crisis.

How to foster competition and innovation in the procurement of construction works? Allowing variants could be an excellent starting point. In cooperation with Dentons' Europe Public Procurement team,

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.

The program offers considerable financial support for companies that would like to invest in innovative and climate-friendly technologies.

On April 1, 2020, the European Commission published a "Guidance on using the public procurement framework in the emergency situation related to the COVID-19 crisis".

The mobility of the future is arriving in the present to an ever-higher degree. Bike sharing, car sharing, and carpooling have established themselves as well-functioning business models ...

This is a tiresome topic for companies: the commercial agent leaving the company requests an extract of the books.

The Supreme Tax Court has held that the employee of a foreign parent delegated to act as a GmbH's managing director does not automatically rank as the Employee of the GmbH For "wages tax".

On 4 March 2026, the European Commission proposed a Regulation that would, for the first time, make European origin and low-carbon content formal conditions for access to public procurement...

The increase in battery production including numerous gigafactories implies inevitable improvement in manufacturing efficiency and productivity.

In many ways, the 2024 US election was historic. National issues such as immigration, abortion and the US economy polarised the country as never before, alongside international flashpoints in Europe and the Middle East. Donald Trump was able to communicate these issues in the most convincing way and won the election.