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ESG Colourwashing: Combating Modern-day Corporate Hypocrisy
Driven partly by the COVID-19 crisis, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria have gained significant relevance, creating a growing market demand for both ESG-based consumer and investor products. This is...Read more
Timo Matthias Spitzer
Head of Legal Corporate and Investment Banking Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Scandinavia, Banco Santander, SA., Germany
Why Leadership with Integrity is Crucial to Achieving
Sustainable Business Practices for Corporations:<br>How the In-House Legal Function May Serve as a Driving Factor in Promoting Sustainable Value
The importance of an environmentally and socially friendly business model has risen to an all-time high. It is a direct result of significant cultural changes, which have altered, potentially forever,...Read more
Timo Matthias Spitzer
Head of Legal Corporate and Investment Banking Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Scandinavia, Banco Santander, SA., Germany
Stuck in the Middle with You: When U.S. Discovery Orders Hit the GDPR
Civil litigants in the United States have broad rights to information—from each other and from others not involved in the litigation, whether or not they are within ...Read more
Matthias Artzt
Senior Legal Counsel, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany
The recent proposals for a reform of the German patent act:
A true ‘modernisation’ of the patent system?
The ‘modernisation’ of the patent law has dominated the debates around intellectual property in Germany in recent times. The need for changes to the current system has been controversially discussed...Read more
Spyros Makris
IPR Policy Manager, Ericsson GmbH, Germany
Compliance Risk Management: A Game-changing Strategy in Mergers & Acquisitions
In a context where companies are facing increasingly complex regulatory requirements, more stringent legal enforcement restrictions and NGO activism (including ethical and environmental), the compliance part of the M&A due...Read more
Isabelle Rust
Head of Third Party Compliance Management , Airbus Defence and Space, Germany
Identifying Controllers and Processors in a Blockchain Environment in the Light of GDPR
Blockchain technologies have emerged as a disruptive way of executing business processes in decentralised environments. It was originally created to facilitate cryptocurrency transactions (such as Bitcoin), which are currently facing...Read more
Matthias Artzt
Senior Legal Counsel, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany
Foreign Court Judgements and International Arbitration Awards Enforcement
The economic cooperation and integration among various countries is constantly and inevitably increasing in the era of world globalization. The continued commercial expansion is unavoidably accompanied by civil and commercial...Read more
Natalya Seyalova
Sr. Legal Counsel AEM, HeidelbergCement AG, Germany
Requirements in SEP License Negotiations - Substantiating a FRAND Offer – The Relation Between Confidentiality Issues and Providing Evidence for its Own Fair and Reasonable Position
In its Huawei/ZTE decision of 16 July 2015 (Case C-170/13) concerning injunction requests based on standard essential patents (SEPs) in litigation, the ECJ provided guidance in relation to the appropriate...Read more
Clemens Heusch
Head of European Litigation, Nokia , Germany
Requirements in SEP License Negotiations - Substantiating a FRAND Offer – The Relation Between Confidentiality Issues and Providing Evidence for its Own Fair and Reasonable Position
In its Huawei/ZTE decision of 16 July 2015 (Case C-170/13) concerning injunction requests based on standard essential patents (SEPs) in litigation, the ECJ provided guidance in relation to the appropriate...Read more
Florian Schmidt-Bogatzky
Attorney, Bird & Bird, Germany
The Use of Mediation in Settling Patent Disputes
Multinational patent disputes are highly complex as they frequently deal with complicated technical facts and arguments that must be presented in numerous jurisdictions with different legal systems and jurisdictional traditions....Read more
Thorsten Bausch
Partner, Hoffmann Eitle, Germany
Friederike Heckmann
Senior Patent Counsel, Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH, Germany