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As those with an interest in patents will be aware, the Unified Patent Court is still not a reality. The final ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement ("UPCA")

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.

Claims against big corporations based on international law, whether connected to climate change and environmental matters or human rights violations by suppliers, are on the rise.

The European Commission has released its first report on the use of financial information by law enforcement authorities, nearly two years behind schedule. While creating no immediate new obligations for financial institutions, the report clearly signals a future direction: networked account registers, standardized transaction data, and faster cross-border inquiries. As data architecture becomes increasingly integrated while the legal framework remains fragmented, financial institutions must understand the

Over the past few years, Germany has strengthened the AWV regime. In parallel, the relevance of Germany's foreign direct investment control investigations for M&A transactions involving non-EU...

Germany has two different sets of rules for the review of foreign direct investments.

The European Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) was established in June 2024. It is an EU agency that will coordinate with national authorities...

London Managing Partner of the leading German law firm Noerr, Thomas Schulz, recently spoke to us to provide an insight into how the UK's decision to leave the EU is perceived in Germany.

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.

Patrick Spaeth spoke to Compliance Week about Germany's "Due Diligence Act," which, if it passes, will require that companies of a certain size with ties to Germany establish robust due diligence procedures to...

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)...

The declarations of the French Minister of Economy on April 29, 2020 regarding new restrictions on foreign investment underlines a global trend towards increased scrutiny on inbound...

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.

As the Second Senate of the German Federal Constitutional Court ("Bundesverfassungsgericht") decided today

Changes to the German anti-money laundering rules require real estate agents to review their risk management systems.

On 26 November 2020 the German Parliament (Bundestag) passed the bill required for German ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) with 570 votes in favour...