The Specht & Partner Law Firm grows: Sonja Kerschbaum joins the firm as of February 1, 2019. Bringing with her many years of experience in her core areas of international inheritance law and succession planning as well as capital market law, Sonja Kerschbaum is thus expected to expand the range of services offered by Specht & Partner through her expertise ...
Taking Cooperation to the Digital Age, a high-level forum on Africa and Europe, was held in Vienna on 17-18 December 2018, and initiated by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda. The forum took place as Austria’s third term as President of the Council of the European Union comes to an end. High level officials from the European Union ...
On Wednesday, 16 November 2016, from 9:30 am – 4:30 pm, Specht & Partner will participate in the JUS Success16 to take place at Juridicum at the University of Vienna Law School. We are particularly pleased to welcome special guests of our firm who will be available to chat with students in our lounge: BRIGITTE EDERER, ÖBB Supervisory Board HEINZ SOMMERBAUER, CEO Austro-Control ...
We're moving! As of Monday, June 13, 2016 the Vienna office of Specht & Partner will be operating from a new location: Specht & Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH Rooseveltplatz 4-5 / 8 1090 Vienna AUSTRIA (fax, tel and email addresses will remain the same). The new offices are walking distance from our former location right next to the Votive Church. We can still easily be reached with ...
SPECHT BÖHM partners Erhard Böhm and Ingo Braun spoke on the specific problems of disclosure and document production in international credit insurance related arbitrations at the Credit Insurance Working Party during the 2014 World Congress of the Association Internationale du Droit des Assurances (AIDA), held in Rome from 29 September to 2 October 2014. The possible disclosure by a credit-insured in ...
A recent study conducted by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market has estimated that intellectual property rights (IPR) related sectors account for around 39% of EU GDP (around 4.7 trillion EUR annually) and up to 35% of all jobs. Patent applications, registered EU trademarks and trademark applications have doubled since 2003, which suggests that the legal and administrative framework ...
EU sanctions against Russia The Council of European Union regulation on new sanctions against Russia entered into force on 1 August 2014. Sanctions will be valid for a year with the possibility of revision after three months since the moment of entering into force. "Actions by natural or legal persons, entities or bodies shall not give rise to liability of any ...
Specht Böhm Vienna attorneys, Erhard Böhm and Paul Proksch, have contributed to the 2014 edition of Getting The Deal Through – Dispute Resolution. The article gives an overview of the civil court system, civil proceedings and arbitration in Austria. It is reproduced with the permission from Law Business Research Ltd. who first published the article online (contributing editor: Simon Bushell, ...
In the beginning of July, Specht Böhm Vienna participated in a two day forum in Vienna and Graz on legal issues surrounding Russian exports entitled, "Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen bei Russland-Exporten." Over a hundred participants attended the forum organized by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Specht Böhm attorney, Leon Kopecky, discussed drafting contracts for Russian ...
Last week the Austrian Ministry of Finance announced which companies would be awarded three new casino concessions for Vienna and Lower Austria. Amongst the victors is a Swiss-German investment consortium that Specht Böhm has been advising in their efforts to break into the Vienna market. For almost five decades, concessions had solely been allocated in non-public tender procedures. A judgment of ...