On Wednesday, 20 March 2013, Specht Böhm will participate in the 21st Success Messe to take place at Juridicum at the University of Vienna Law School. By attending the career fair for law students and graduates, we hope to connect with upcoming talent and use the opportunity to talk to you about us, our team, and our field of expertise. ...
Erhard Böhm and Paul Proksch have contributed the Austria chapter to the 2013 edition of Getting The Deal Through – Arbitration. The article gives an overview of the laws and institutions, agreements and proceedings before and after the issuance of awards in Austria. It is reproduced with the permission from Law Business Research Ltd. who first published the article online. ...
Hungarian AIDA Conference, Budapest, 29-30 November 2012 Dr Gabriella Benisch, partner in the Budapest office, will speak on the history of settlement of insurance disputes at the IXX AIDA Budapest Insurance Colloquium in Budapest being held from 29 – 30 November 2012. Ms. Benisch will discuss different settlement methods and their changes throughout history from the late 19th century till now. The Hungarian ...
Austria and International Bank Financings SPECHT BÖHM Partner, Markus Haberfellner, has published an article in the leading business journal, Global Business Magazine entitled, “Austrian Particularities in Connection with Securing International Bank Financings”. The article focuses on avoiding legal defects as well as significant additional costs when structuring international bank financings with a nexus to Austria. Dr. Markus Haberfellner, LL.M. recently joined Specht ...
SPECHT BÖHM and "Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich" have produced a Russian translation of the Austrian Civil Code. Moscow legal publishers “Statut” (www.estatut.ru) will publish a hard cover edition of the translation in autumn 2012. In May of this year, SPECHT BÖHM partners Leopold Specht and Natalya Menshikova together with Dr. Ludwig Scharinger, the former Chief Executive and Chairman of the Managing Board ...
New Austrian Supreme Court Judgment on the Conversion of Attics into Penthouse The conversion of building attics into penthouses represents a means of urban renewal in Austria increasing in popularity and economic importance. Realtors, investors, urban planners and city dwellers all have a stake in court decisions determining who has what say in the matter. SPECHT BÖHM attorney, Melanie Perchtold, and associate, Florian Heindler, have commented on the most ...
The second Kiev Arbitration Days will take place in Kiev, Ukraine, on 15 and 16 November 2012 under the auspices of the Ukrainian Bar Association. The Kiev Arbitration Days were first launched by the Ukrainian Bar Association in November 2011. About 130 experts from 15 different countries attended the first such international arbitration conference inUkraine. SPECHT BÖHM partner Erhard Böhm acted ...
SPECHT BÖHM Associate, Florian Heindler, has published an article in the leading Russian journal Competition and Law entitled, “Private Enforcement and Choice of Law in the European Union”. The article focuses on the specific conflict of laws rules concerning tort claims arising from violations of competition law as set out in EU Regulation No. 864/2007 (“Rome II”). The article was triggered ...
A SPECHT BÖHM initiative triggers a constitutional and EU law review of the Austrian Gaming Act. In August 2012, the Independent Administrative Senate of the Province of Upper Austria submitted an application to the Constitutional Court of Austria and to the European Court of Justice to review certain provisions of the Austrian Gaming Act. Spurred by decisions of the Federal State of ...
Specht Böhm partner, Leopold Specht, is participating in the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School’s research mission and workshop in Bangkok focusing on new financial services regulation and developmental strategies in the emerging markets of the ASEAN region. The program is part of a IGLP and Visa Inc joint research initiative launched in March 2012 at ...