23.01.2022

Legal trends for the games industry in 2022 | Opinion

„Some legal journals look back on legal developments of the preceding year. We have taken our crystal balls and look into the future. Here are our predictions for 2022. Metaverse We do not know yet if …

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16.01.2022

Material amendments to occupational health and safaty regulations in the russian labour code

"Amendments to Section X of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation on occupational health and safety introduced by Federal Law No. 311-FZ dated 2 July 2021 enter into force on 1 March 2022. These amendm…

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11.01.2022

Cartel Office sets its sights on Google

"The competition authority has been given new instruments for abuse control. Google is now feeling the effects. Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google have an "outstanding cross-market significance" for c…

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10.11.2021

Long-term investment agreements: legal and tax implications

"When deciding whether to invest in Russia, an investor usually considers preferential investment arrangements, tax benefits and government support available to the project, enabling the investor to maximi…

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02.11.2021

The International Comparative Legal Guide: Foreign Direct Investment Regimes 2022

This edition provides a global analysis of common issues in foreign direct investment regimes across 27 jurisdictions. We are happy to contribute to this important publication with a whole chapter writt…

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27.10.2021

Home Office Forever? That doesn’t have to be the case, the Munich Regional Labor Court ruled

"According to the decision of the LAG Munich of August 26, 2021 (3 SaGa 13/21), employers may unilaterally order the return from the “home office”. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, there were numerous di…

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13.10.2021

Coworking: Legal Guide

Even though coworking has existed globally since 2005, and in the Russian Federation since 2008, as a rule this has not become a widespread phenomenon. Even today not everyone understands what this term me…

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28.09.2021

Book review: Museums and the Holocaust (Second Edition)

ISBN 978-1-903987-42-1, 342 pp. published by the Institute of Art and Law "The second edition of Museums and the Holocaust, edited by Ruth Redmond Cooper, Director of the Institute of Art and Law, gathe…

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19.09.2021

Matrix structures: A look at court decisions and corporate practice

The practice "I don't know whether I'm coming or going. I can hardly deal with the large number of tasks and I do not even know, to which team I've been assigned and who my boss is. This is also constan…

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08.09.2021

Google's Voice Assistant in New EU Antitrust Investigation, MLex reports

"BRUSSELS/BANGALURU, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Google faces an EU antitrust investigation over whether it may be forcing device makers to install Google Assistant as the default voice assistant on Android devices…

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06.07.2021

The specifics of formalising “built-to-lease” and “built-to-suit” transactions

Over the past few years there has been a perceptible increase in the number of “built-to-lease” and “built-to-suit” transactions concluded on the Russian real estate market, in particular, in the warehouse…

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13.06.2021

Coronavirus labor law in Germany

"Labor law has never been more fast-moving than in the past year. There have never been as many new regulations in labor law as in the last 18 months. Which new impulses labor law received in the pandemic …

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