Compact and Briefing

Hanover, February 2023 | Technical know-how plays a particularly important role for many companies. Often this expertise is not generated within an undertaking, but it is transferred from another [...]

Hanover, March 2023 | Cyberattacks and cybercrime are continuously on the rise, fuelled by the generally low level of cybersecurity and insufficient understanding and access to information on the [...]

Hanover, January 2023 | Companies are shifting their digital functions and processes to external platforms to an ever greater extent. The outsourcing of IT services to the cloud has led to a [...]

Hanover, November 2022 | The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wrapped up its weeklong Congress and Chinese president Xi Jinping (hereafter referred to as Xi) has secured a third term as the [...]

Hanover, August 2022 | Companies often have an interest in binding their distribution partners in certain ways in order to secure their position in the market. In doing so, they usually restrict [...]

Milan, June 2022 | After years of waiting and well behind many EU member states, Italy too will have its Register of Beneficial Owners, as provided for in Legislative Decree No. 231/07 as amended [...]

Hanover, May 2022 | On June 4, 2021, the European Commission issued new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for international data transfers.[1] The new SCCs are an adaptation to the General Data [...]

On February 23, 2022, the European Commission published the draft legislation for the Data Act. Together with the Data Governance Act, the Data Act forms a legislative package under the European [...]

London, April 2022 | Cross-border M&A transactions in the U.K. and U.S. remained prevalent in 2021 and into early 2022 despite the economic uncertainty that exists in today’s markets. Many [...]

London, April 2022 | In an effort to combat economic crime through enhanced transparency, on 28 February 2022 the U.K. Government published the Corporate Transparency and Register Reform White [...]