A new law that may revolutionise spatial planning and property development in Poland came into effect on August 22nd. The Act may heavily impact the residential market in Poland for the next 10 years. Partner and Head of Real Estate and Construction team, Tomasz Stasiak, and team member and Associate Aleksander Duma have prepared a video executive summary of our Client Alert on the new law.
Revolution in Residential Development
A new law that may revolutionise spatial planning and property development in Poland came into effect on August 22nd. The Act may heavily impact the residential market in Poland for the next 10 years. Partner and Head of Real Estate and Construction team, Tomasz Stasiak, and team member and Associate Aleksander Duma have prepared a […]...
Wolf Theiss berät TH Real Estate beim Kauf des Wiener Bürogebäudes “Adler & Ameise”
Wien, 23. Juli 2018 –TH Real Estate setzt bei der Akquisition des Bürogebäudes Adler & Ameise im 3. Wiener Gemeindebezirk auf die Expertise von Wolf Theiss. TH Real Estate hat das zehngeschossige Objekt von der Blue Capital Europe Immobilien GmbH & Co Siebte Objekte Österreich KG erworben. Hauptmieter ist der Fonds Soziales Wien. Wolf Theiss […]...
Wolf Theiss berät Borealis bei der Akquisition von Ecoplast
Wien, 20. Juli 2018 – Wolf Theiss hat Borealis, einen führenden Anbieter innovativer Lösungen in den Bereichen Polyolefine, Basischemikalien und Pflanzennährstoffe, bei der Übernahme der Ecoplast Kunststoffrecycling GmbH beraten. Das Signing ist am 11. Juli 2018 erfolgt. Die Transaktion unterliegt der Genehmigung der zuständigen Behörden. Unter der Leitung von Senior Associate Jiayan Zhu (Corporate) und […]...
The Wolf Theiss Guide to: Dispute Resolution in Central, Eastern & Southeastern Europe
This 2018 Wolf Theiss Guide to Dispute Resolution in Central, Eastern & Southeastern Europe is intended as a practical guide to the general principles and features of the basic legislation and procedures in countries included in the publication. To learn more, please open the attached file....
The Wolf Theiss Guide to: International Arbitration in Central, Eastern & Southeastern Europe
This 2018 Wolf Theiss Guide to International Arbitration in Central, Eastern & Southeastern Europe is intended as a practical guide to the general principles and features of the basic legislation and procedures in countries included in the publication. To learn more, please open the attached file....
The Wolf Theiss Guide to: Handling Business Crime Cases in Central, Eastern & Southeastern Europe
This 2018 Wolf Theiss Guide to Handling Business Crime Cases in Central, Eastern & Southeastern Europe is intended as a practical guide to the general principles and features of the basic legislation and procedures in countries included in the publication. To learn more, please open the attached file....
Financial Industry goes Blockchain
Blockchain technology is no longer science fiction, it has become reality! Our Banking and Finance team partnered with Erste Group in developing the first paperless blockchain-only Schuldscheindarlehen (a debt instrument) issue in Europe! The benefits are obvious: thanks to digitization, issuance processes are now a lot faster and offer more transparency and certainty for all […]...
M&A Trends in CEE
Is the current M&A market seller-friendly or buyer-friendly? What do the holdbacks in purchase prices signalize? Are there more locked box deals or completion account deals on the market? Find the answers to these questions in our Wolf Theiss Snapshot, where our Partners Markus Bruckmüller and Ileana Glodeanu speak about the latest M&A trends in […]...
The Wolf Theiss Guide To: Licensing of Electricity and Gas Wholesale Activities in Central, Eastern & Southeastern Europe
Wolf Theiss is pleased to publish the second edition (2018) of “The Wolf Theiss Guide To: Licensing of Electricity and Gas Wholesale Activities in Central, Eastern & Southeastern Europe” (the “Licensing Guide”). In the past decade, our energy team has handled numerous licensing procedures throughout the region both in the electricity and the natural gas […]...
New EU regulation – The end of geo-blocking when shopping online
A new EU Regulation, which will take effect on 3 December 2018, provides for borderless online shopping.(1) Traders are obliged to treat online customers equally, regardless of which EU-member state they come from. Geo-blocking will be abolished in many cases. However, digital content protected under copyright law and some other services are not yet affected by the Regulation. Following the abolition of roaming charges and the adoption of the Portability-Regulation, this new Regulation is the next step in contributing to the European Union strategy of creating a properly functioning digital internal market without unjustified geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination based on a customer's nationality, place of residence or place of establishment....
Bulgaria – Competition protection commission recommends amendments of the energy act concerning the heating sector
On 8 February 2018, the Bulgarian Competition Protection Commission ("CPC") issued a Decision in a Competition Advocacy proceeding initiated in 2017 for the assessment of conformity with Competition law of the legal framework applicable to heat energy supply legislation. The Competition Advocacy proceeding analyzed the respective sections of the Energy Act ("EA"), the Heat Energy Supply Ordinance (1) and the General Terms and Conditions of the heating companies....
Current status of AMLD 4 in CEE
The EU 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD 4) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 5 July 2015 and should have been implemented into national law by 26 June 2017. In the attached survey, we take a look at the current status of the implementation of AMLD 4 in Central, Eastern and Southeastern […]...