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 ...
The Consumer Rights Directive brings significant changes to the European Union’s online selling and purchasing landscape and standardises national legislation across EU Member States. It aims to simplify consumer rights and make them more transparent for consumers of goods and services. The new EU Consumer Rights Directive – which came into effect for all EU Member States on 13th June 2014 ...
Specht Böhm is once again taking in active role in the International Congress of Comparative Law in Vienna from 20 July until 27 July 2014. Over 400 Congress participants are expected at the event which will cover a wide range of topics including legal history and ethnology, legal theory, comparative law and unification law, legal education, civil law, private and public international ...
In addition to preparing documents to submit to the courts, Austrian lawyers are also required to navigate which submission method a court considers legally acceptable for a particular case. One field of law where this has posed a challenge involves “other applications concerning the land registry” pursuant to Article 448 para. 4 Rules on Court Procedure (“Geschäftsordnung der Gerichte 1. ...
Specht Böhm is supporting "Russia Coast to Coast" as a Partner and legal counsel. The event will begin July 23, 2014 and features Austrian Race Across America winner, Wolfgang Fasching, as he attempts to set a world record biking Coast to Coast across Russia from Vladivostok via Yekaterinburg and Moscow to St. Petersburg a total distance of over 10,000 ...
Specht Böhm recently mentored a team of high-performing law students from the University of Vienna – Faculty of Law participating in the mock contract negotiations “ELSA Seal the Deal! – the M&A Contract Competition” of the Vienna chapter of the European Law Students' Association, the world's largest independent law ...
On 16 May 2014, partner Erhard Böhm, once again gave a full day lecture on international investment protection within the program leading to the Master of Trade Law jointly organized by the International Training Centre of the International Labor Organization (ITCILO) and the University of Torino at the ITCLIO campus in Torino, Italy. The lecture focused on the sources of the ...
We are pleased to announce that Acquisition International Magazine has announced the winners of their 2014 Dispute Resolution Awards and Specht Böhm Rechtsanwalt GmbH has been recognized as a Civil Litigator of the Year: Austria. The Dispute Resolution Awards recognize the outstanding achievements of individuals and companies within the dispute resolution arena, and crucially, are nominated by their clients, their professional ...
The Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof (OGH)) has passed a decision in February 2014 which sets the record straight on Austrian Merger Law requirements. All Austrian merger agreements must be concluded in the form of a notarial deed. This requirement also extends to mergers involving Austrian limited liability companies (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH)) . The decision clarifies a law provision ...