The German government is focussing on rapidly equipping the Bundeswehr, for which the easing of the so-called "debt brake" has already paved the way. As a next step, it is now tackling the procurement regulations (again).

With ever greater frequency open source software is becoming a topic at corporate acquisitions, and not only where the sale or acquisition of software enterprises is concerned.

Impressive innovations are anticipated in the metaverse and are thus causing an extraordinary stir in a multitude of areas of life. In the meantime, hardly any other field...

The European Commission submitted a proposal for a new directive on corporate sustainability requirements to the European Union in Brussels on 23 February 2022...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recognised cross-border changes of form which simultaneously preserve an enterprise's identity, and has therewith removed a further barrier against the mobility of enterprises.

On 21 May 2014, the EU Commission has adopted new rules for state aid measures to support research, development and innovation activities.

Lately, more and more violations of the ban on vertical price fixing have been prosecuted by the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO).

The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 ("ESPR") replaced the Ecodesign Directive (2009/125/EC) on July 18, 2024.

On Friday, 11 November 2022, the Bundestag factions of the traffic light coalition introduced a draft for a so-called second Sanctions Enforcement Act (Sanktionsdurchsetzungsgesetz II; SDG II) into the Bundestag.

It is often difficult for listed companies to judge when they have to publish information of relevance to the company by way of ad-hoc notification.

Companies often implement company pension (betriebliche Altersversorgung, "bAV") indirectly via a direct insurance company as an external pension provider.

In case of short-time work, the savings in personnel costs are obvious and companies are aware of this (see, among other things, the requirements for short-time work: What do you do with staff when the energy and ...

In its decision of 28 January 2025 (see press release), the German Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, "BAG") clarified that an employer is not obliged to provide a trade union with the work e-mail addresses of its employees for the purpose of recruiting members

Wecontinue our series of articles on the metaverse. This article contains further important aspects concerning the labour law challenges in the metaverse...

The various aspects of compliance are high on the agenda of both the economic and political players in Germany. Most recently, the German government has approved a draft legislation for stricter rules on anti money laundering.

Die Bundesregierung setzt auf eine zügige Ausrüstung der Bundeswehr, wofür die Lockerung der Schuldenbremse bereits den Weg geebnet hat. Im nächsten Schritt nimmt sie sich nun...

Through the introduction of Sec. 225a of the German Insolvency Code [Insolvenzordnung, InsO] within the scope of the German Act to Further Facilitate the Restructuring of Enterprises [Gesetz zur weiteren Erleichterung der Sanierung von Unternehmen, ESUG], attention has now been drawn to debt-to-equity swaps.

If this is the case, namely, this could result in several possible tax benefits.

Once again, this year's release of the video game FIFA has generated a great deal of attention and criticism. The black market trade in in-game currency, i.e. the game's...

If an employee of a company wishes to obtain information about their processed personal data and the company fails to comply, this can potentially be costly.