Steptoe & Johnson LLP (LexBlog Austria)

In its judgment of January 26, the European Court interpreted EU rules on jurisdiction in a dispute referred from the Austrian Supreme Court between a ‘consumer’ – Maximilian Schrems – and Facebook Ireland Limited. The Court would not accept the consumer’s choice of forum for a class-action type proceeding and held that, when interpreting EU...

Do you need to notify a change from sole to joint control over an existing undertaking when the newly created joint venture is not full-function? This question has been the subject of much debate with the European Commission’s case teams and has poisoned the life of companies and merger control practitioners for over a decade....