Nachdem sämtliche Initiativen für einschneidende Gegenmaßnahmen als Antwort auf die US/EU-Sanktionen (Strafbarkeit von Sanktionsbefolgung, weitreichende Einfuhrverbote, ...

The Noerr-Pennington doctrine, which protects the First Amendment right to petition the government, has traditionally been used to shield lobbying activity from antitrust liability, even when such activity’s intent is to harm a competitor.

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that Merck is exempt from antitrust claims under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine in a lawsuit accusing it of deceiving the government...

On 1 January 2018, amendments to the Federal Law No 323-FZ "On the Fundamentals of Protection of the Health of Citizens of the Russian Federation" dated 21 November 2011 came into force

On 13 April 2018, the Taganskyi District Court of Moscow upheld Roscomnadzor's claim to block access to Telegram. On 16 April 2018...

On 10 September 2019 the Russian State Duma in its first reading adopted a draft bill increasing fines for non-compliance with data localisation requirements

Even though data localisation requirements were already introduced in Russia back in 2015, their effects on cross-border reporting channels in the whistleblowing systems...

Obwohl Datenlokalisierungsanforderungen in Russland bereits in 2015 eingeführt wurden, blieben deren Auswirkungen auf die grenzüberschreitenden Meldekanäle...

After all initiatives for drastic countermeasures to respond to the US/EU sanctions ground to a halt for one year, the legislator has now resumed the proposal.

The attached article will be of interest to companies that compete in industries in which intellectual property rights have the potential to affect competition in a significant way.

Russian data localisation has been a hot topic in recent years, although non-compliance with the localisation requirements carried only very limited risks.

The new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has announced that he will lead Britain with "no ifs or buts" out of the European Union by 31 October 2019.

Germany's federal government adopted the Fourth Bureaucracy Reduction Act (Bürokratieentlastungsgesetz – BEG IV) after the third reading in parliament on 26 September 2024, thus taking a key step towards the digitalisation of personnel management.

In 2018 a number of changes were made to the Russian Civil Code, facilitating certain transactional aspects.

Enforcement actions by U.S. and European enforcement agencies as well as the World Bank have drawn attention to bribery offences committed by multinational companies in Russia and other former Soviet republics, in particular in Central Asia.

Ermittlungsverfahren von US-amerikanischen und europäischen Strafverfolgungsbehörden sowie der Weltbank haben den Blick auf von internationalen Unternehmen in Russland und anderen ehemaligen Sowjetrepubliken, ...

As already mentioned in our previous news on this topic, due to COVID-19 the Russian State Duma adopted on 18 March 2020 Federal Law No. 50-FZ.

The opinion elucidates the current law surrounding the scope of Noerr-Pennington immunity and the implied labor exemption to antitrust liability.

Sooner than expected, the Federal Government adopted the 17th revision to the Foreign Trade Ordinance ("Revision") on 27 April 2021. The Revision entered into force on 1 May 2021.

In 2018 hat die Russische Föderation zum ersten Mal umfangreiche Gegenmaßnahmen als Antwort auf die US/EU-Sanktionen ergriffen. Auslöser hierfür waren vor allem der Erlass des CAATSA am 2.