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In cooperation with the Düsseldorf coworking space beehive, WRL lawyers Gwendolin Gottschick LL.M. and Christian Leuchter will give various legal workshops and seminars on the topic of e-commerce starting in September 2023. The first event will deal with the topic of...

WR Legal advised DEG Dach-Fassade-Holz eG, Hamm, on the acquisition of the wholesale business of LIGNUM Handelsgesellschaft für Bau- und Ein-richtungsbedarf mbH & Co. KG, Münster. The transaction was structured as an asset deal and was completed immediately....

Legal teams competed against each other again this year for a good cause. On Saturday, 12 August 2023, the teams consisting of lawyers, judges and law students put their footballing skills to the test. The proceeds from the event will be used to support the DJK AGON...

On 16 June 2023,  Handelsblatt newspaper awarded both Dr Jens Biemann and Dr Christoph Neven as "Germany's Best Lawyers". The award was granted as part of the annual Handelsblatt ranking of Germany's most renowned legal advisors based on an extensive peer-to-peer...

DORA Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 already came into force at the beginning of 2023. Nevertheless, the new requirements for the financial sector are still unknown in many cases. Even though the obligation to implement the regulations was only dated for January 2025,...

In May 2023, Secusmart GmbH was awarded a tender by BWI GmbH, the IT systems house of the German armed forces, for the procurement of highly encrypted cell phones and tablets along with the associated infrastructure.

On May 12, 2023, the Bundesrat gave its final approval to the Whistleblower Protection Act (HinSchG). The law is expected to come into force before the end of June 2023.

WR Legal was awarded in May 2023 by brand eins magazine in cooperation with Statista as one of the best commercial law firms for the legal fields of trademarks and designs!

On May 24, 2023, Christine Meßmer, LL.M. and Christian Leuchter (specialist attorney for banking and capital markets law) from WR Legal will present their workshop “Brands & Licenses” as part of the START UP Week.