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I. Overview In 2021, global activity was below the activity levels of previous years, whereas activist campaigns in the US (corresponding to 55 per cent of global campaigns) increased from 2020 by 10 per cent. Following a record level in 2020, Europe registered 50 new campaigns in 2021, down 12 per cent year-on-year.2 Globally, M&A […]...

By Ira Peric Ostojic and Sara Pavlovic The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to have timely access to and sharing of health data, which has in turn encouraged legislative developments at the EU level, including the recently published proposal of the first domain-specific EU data space – European Health Data Space (EHDS). The EHDS […]...

As the business of the metaverse grows, so do the legal questions around it With the increasing popularity and acceptance of the metaverse, as well as the sale of crypto properties and items, we are confronted with the question of the type of ownership associated with them and to what extent the owner is entitled […]...

Ukrainian martial law continues to undergo reform and development. In this regard, the Law of Ukraine “On Introducing Amendments into Certain Laws Regarding the Optimisation of Labour Relations” of 19 July 2022 (the “Law”) has introduced the following developments highlighted below. (1) Employers have become exempt from an obligation to pay an average salary to […]...

Introduction It is a typical scenario: there are younger beneficiaries who want investments to be made into crypto assets, an asset class which did not exist a decade ago, which has a low correlation with traditional assets, which is highly volatile and about which the beneficiaries are very enthusiastic. There are older trustees and board […]...

Structures and applicable law Types of transaction How many publicly listed businesses combine? By far the most important transaction structure in Austria in practice remains the acquisition of a (controlling) stake,combined with, or followed by, a public tender offer. More recent takeover practice has seen the use of businesscombination agreements (eg, Vonovia/BUWOG and, with the […]...

↓ Part I: Cross-border recognition of restructuring proceedings – Amendment to the European Insolvency Regulation ↓ Part II: Implementation of the Restructuring Directive ↓ Croatia: paving the way for restructuring ↓ Hungary: sneak peek at the new restructuring regime ↓ Romania: implementation of the Restructuring Directive ↓ Slovakia: latest changes to insolvency legislation ↓ Slovenia: […]...