Today’s WirtschaftsBlatt reported the Ring Holding majority takeover of Slovenian paint producer, Helios. Helios' worth is estimated at 250 million Euros. Specht Böhm Rechtsanwalt GmbH conducted the legal due diligence of the Russian subsidiaries in this transaction. Ring Holding hopes that the takeover will lead the way to entry into the Russian, Ukrainian, Poland and Serbian markets. Read more in German ...
The third Kiev Arbitration Days (KAD) will take place in Kiev, Ukraine, on 14 and 15 November 2013 under the auspices of the Ukrainian Bar Association. The KAD were first launched in November 2011. After a very successful start, the conference has firmly established itself on the international arbitration conference calendar. The third conference will take place on 14 – 15 November 2013. ...
This past July, Specht Böhm’s Moscow team secured a major victory for Strabag in Moscow. The Moscow Arbitration Court awarded our client 491 million Rubles (approximately 11.7 million Euros) in a case challenging three insurance companies which had originally only paid our client 60 million Rubles (approximately 1.4 million Euros). The complex court proceedings lasted for almost two years and ...
On July 2, Specht Böhm's Vienna office hosted a delegation from the Turkish Ministry of Justice as part of a study visit organized by the “German Foundation for international legal cooperation” (IRZ) in the framework of the EU project "Improved Court Expert System in Turkey". Mr. Yüksel Hiz, the Deputy Undersecretary of the Turkish Ministry of Justice headed the delegation composed of aVppr. 15 high ...
Specht Böhm hosted meetings in Vienna from May 13 – 17 with Mr. Pansak Vinyaratn, chief policy and economic advisor to the Prime Minister of Thailand. Clients were given the opportunity to talk with Mr. Pansak and discuss business plans involving ASEAN. During his visit, Mr. Pansak discussed the changing global economy and the need for ASEAN to create internal ...
Chambers and Partners has recognized the Specht Böhm Budapest Office as a top specialist in restructuring and insolvency, and describes the firm as receiving, "glowing praise from market observers" with "quick responses, good communication and multilingual lawyers." For assistance with your Hungarian law matters, contact Gabriella Benisch at: . Link to Chambers Global Based in the United Kingdom, Chambers has been publishing ...
Specht Böhm would like to thank all the students who stopped by our stand during the Success Messe 2013. For us, Success 2013 marked our first participation in this event and after meeting so many talented, motivated law students, we are confident will be participating in the years to come. Melanie Perchtold: “I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to meet with Vienna’s ...
SPECHT BÖHM Turkish attorney, Ceyda Akbal Schwimann, writes about changes to the Turkish Commercial Code regarding group companies in the April edition of the Austrian legal journal Eastlex. On 1 July 2012, Turkey introduced a new Commercial Code along with a new Code of Obligations. One of the most important changes introduced by the new Turkish Commercial Code concerns the ...
Dr. Gabriella Benisch, partner in the Budapest office, gave a presentation on the history of insurance dispute settlements at the XII. AIDA Budapest Colloquium held last November in Budapest. Following is a short summary of her presentation. Link to Hungarian version. Dr. Benisch reviewed the history of out-of-court settlements of insurance disputes from the complaint submission to the Financial ...
On Tuesday, 19 March 2013, Specht Böhm partner, Leopold Specht, will introduce and moderate a Interdisciplinary Association for Comparative and Private International Law (IGKK “Interdisziplinäre Gesellschaft für Komparatistik und Kollisionsrecht") lecture on the Russian Civil Code co-sponsored by Specht Böhm and the University of Vienna. In “Problems in the Modernization of current Russian Civil Code“ Professor Evgeny ...