Specialty Group: Corporate and M&A

Contact: Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) Key points The transitional period under the PPSA ends on 30 January 2014. Security interests created prior to 30 January 2012 should be perfected prior to t ...

Contact: Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) 'Passing off' occurs when someone uses the name, brand or logo of another and tries to pass it off as their own.  It is like counterfeiting fraud.  Knott Inv ...

Contact: Dieter Hauck & Esther Sowka-Hold; Preslmayr Rechtsanwälte (Austria) A group of companies with an Austrian subsidiary held 25.1% in a Hungarian entity. The Hungarian entity had a turnover of ...

Contact: Rebecca Quinn; Clarkslegal LLP (Reading, England) The European Court of Justice has recently made a decision that has clarified certain provisions of the Unfair Contract Terms Directive (invoked via the ...