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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.

Inadmissible data transfer to Google through use of Google Analytics without sufficient consent

In its recently published judgment of March 23, 2023 (33 O 376/22), the Cologne Regional Court ruled, among other things, on the design of the consent button in Google Analytics on a website. The action was brought by Verbraucherzentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. against a well-known German telecommunications company.

I. Background

Schufa-Holding GmbH (“Schufa”), a private credit reporting agency, provides its contractual partners with information on the creditworthiness of third parties and creates so-called score values for this purpose.

BGH (IX. Civil Senate), Judgment dated 27.10.2022 – IX ZR 213/21

Once again, corporate insolvencies are increasingly becoming the focus of public attention. The economic difficulties of a contractual partner regularly cause unrest on the part of the creditors, short-term options for action are examined and the contractual partner is often confronted with the termination of the business relationship.

The German market offers a variety of exciting planning tasks, especially for efficient architecture and engineering firms from Switzerland. However, the awarding of planning services in Germany differs significantly in many respects from the situation in Switzerland.

PHILIPP KUTSCH has been a family-run construction company since 1932 and is based in
Aldenhoven near Aachen.

German financial supervision has been the focus of political and public attention since the Wirecard AG balance sheet manipulation scandal. The effects are also being felt by other companies on the market.