The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020 after years of negotiations. In order to ensure a regulated procedure, a withdrawal agreement was concluded between the EU and the United Kingdom, which provided for a transitional [...]
ECOMMERCE LEGAL UPDATES in cooperation with the Handelsverband - Austrian Retail Association: In the current LEGAL UPDATE #5 Mag. Jacqueline Bichler and Lukas Ragl focus on the European Commission's draft of the "Digital Markets Act" (DMA), which is part [...]
ABA - Invest in Austria is the business development agency of the Austrian Business Agency (ABA), which is part of the Federal Ministry for Digitalization and Economic Development (BMDW). Andreas Pfeil addressed the topic of "Digitalization of Corporate Law" [...]
The Business Academy of Law at Vienna Business School Schönborngasse has a new cooperation partner as of 2021: The corporate law firm STADLER VÖLKEL Attorneys at Law is working together with the business school and will be sharing the [...]
Regulatory Sandbox - Opportunities for FinTechs on the Austrian Financial Market Since 1 September 2020, there has been a Regulatory Sandbox for FinTechs at the Financial Market Authority (FMA). With this, the Austrian legislator created the regulatory basis for [...]
Our lawyer Mag. Leyla Farahmandnia was sworn in to the Austrian Bar in the summer of 2020. In a short interview for the Rechtsanwaltskammer Wien, she talks about her swearing-in ceremony in COVID times. She describes this as a [...]
On 1 January 2021, the Hate on the Net Prevention Act came into effect. This legislative package has been the subject of our rooftop.talks twice last year. On 17 December 2020, Mag. [...]
A package of laws against hate on the net recently passed the Austrian National Council and will largely – with a few special provisions – enter into force on 1 January 2021. [...]
Within the framework of the master’s course "Digital Marketing" at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Dr. Arthur Stadler and Mag. Jacqueline Bichler will be lecturing on the legal foundations of online marketing. A total of three sessions [...]
HO HO HOme-Office! Vouchers are a COVID-19 safe alternative in XMAS time gift shopping, in particular for retail businesses. This blog article by @Arthur Stadler and @Andreas Pfeil deals with the settled case-law of the Austrian courts when it [...]
