Frankfurt-based Litigation partner Michael Weigel and counsel Alexander Druckenbrodt published an article in Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, reviewing the German Federal Supreme Court's January 26, 2016 judgement of File No. XI ZR 91/14.

The Consumer Rights Enforcement Act (Verbraucherrechtedurchsetzungsgesetz) (VDuG) came into force in Germany on 13 October 2023, completing the long overdue implementation...

Dans une décision du 5 mai 2023 (T 1946/21, Intex c/ Bestway Europe et Bestway Allemagne, décision disponible en anglais), la chambre de recours de l'OEB a eu l'occasion de clarifier que si une cession...

German consumers will be able to sue manufacturers and service providers by way of representative action starting on 1 November 2018

The German Bar Association's bimonthly magazine, BRAK-Mitteilungen, published Litigation partner Dr. Michael Weigel's article discussing model lawsuits for the declaration of claims.

This Client Alert provides an overview of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's updated arbitration guide that was published in December 2018

Place of Jurisdiction – EU-Law – Brussels I Regulation – Product liability (Austria /Germany).

We have previously posted on the signficance of the international practice decisions by the Second and Eleventh Circuits’ decisions relating to validation procedures preventing Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act immunity.

This article addresses the impact that the German Federal Court of Justice's 17 October 2019 decision (BGH, ref. III ZR 42/19 = NJW 2020, 399)

In a decision handed down on 30 September 2024, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Mannheim Local Division to limit additional time for preparing a rejoinder on non-technical aspects...

The UPC Court of Appeal has overturned a €2 million security for costs order, finding that a claimant's litigation insurance with anti-avoidance endorsement provides sufficient protection against unenforceability of adverse costs orders. This landmark decision addresses whether appropriate litigation insurance can substitute for traditional security mechanisms and signals that courts must properly consider such policies when assessing security applications.

The aim of Benedikt Lüthge's essay is to analyze the law of agency in the state of Louisiana and compare it to its German equivalent.

On 18 April 2023, the German Federal Ministry of Justice [Bundesministerium der Justiz, BMJ] published the key issues paper on the modernisation of German arbitration law.

In its decision of 8 August 2019 (Ref.: 29 W 940/19), the Munich Higher Regional Court commented for the first time on the German Act on the Protection of Business Secrets (GeschGehG).

We are pleased to share with you the details of the upcoming Conference of the European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA), taking place in Frankfurt on Thursday 25 April 2024.