As ever, the flight home is very quiet. Gone, the heady excitement of the flight out and instead, hushed voices and plenty of caffeine. Every year, I say I will only ever do two days. And every year I panic and book the full five, not wanting to miss out. But this year I have […]
Employment regulations in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina contain a number of idiosyncratic solutions and local legal support is therefore essential to foreign investors. Our employment practice spans from everyday support to employers in drafting employment agreements and internal employment-related enactments, through advice on sensitive termination issues and post-acquisition restructurings to drafting complex management […]
The flood of arbitration exits from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has continued with the exit of three German arbitrators to launch a boutique, with conflicts of interest cited as the driving force behind the departures. Cologne-based partner Christian Borris is leaving in a month to launch Borris Hennecke Kneisel with Frankfurt-based lawyers Sebastian Kneisel and Rudolph […]
The flood of arbitration exits from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has continued with the exit of three German arbitrators to launch a boutique, with conflicts of interest cited as the driving force behind the departures. Cologne-based partner Christian Borris is leaving in a month to launch Borris Hennecke Kneisel with Frankfurt-based lawyers Sebastian Kneisel and Rudolph […]
A case stemming from the dispute between Russian oligarchs Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich over a $1.5bn stake in mining company Metalloinvest has settled on the eve of battle. The claims were brought by the family of the late Georgian businessman Arkady ‘Badri’ Patarkatsishvili against Russian oligarch Vasily Anisimov. Four silks were due to appear in […]
A case stemming from the dispute between Russian oligarchs Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich over a $1.5bn stake in mining company Metalloinvest has settled on the eve of battle. The claims were brought by the family of the late Georgian businessman Arkady ‘Badri’ Patarkatsishvili against Russian oligarch Vasily Anisimov. Four silks were due to appear in […]
We have experience in a wide range of disputes, spanning from investment and commercial contracts to specific niches such as product liability or insolvency claw-back litigation. BDK takes particular pride in its international commercial and investment arbitration capability. We have represented a number of foreign investors in arbitration disputes with the host states or other […]
Within our general corporate practice group, we advise on the most appropriate corporate forms for establishing a presence in local jurisdictions, as well as on more complex issues such as acquisition structuring, corporate governance, shareholders’ agreements, corporate finance, capital increases, debt-to-equity swaps, capital reductions and liquidations. BDK has also developed significant experience in takeover bids […]
With European integrations under way, the competition laws and practices in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina heavily borrow from EU examples. We are aware that the competence in this area is inseparable from the in-depth knowledge and strenuous monitoring of European developments in the field. Our competition lawyers have specialisations from foreign universities and […]
Footballing female lawyers could soon join their male counterparts with their own legal football league. Until now male lawyers, barristers and clerks have enjoyed a league of their own, with the 23-strong London Legal League (LLL), set up in 1966. But now its founder, retired legacy Baileys Shaw & Gillett partner John Wilson, thinks it […]
Footballing female lawyers could soon join their male counterparts with their own legal football league. Until now male lawyers, barristers and clerks have enjoyed a league of their own, with the 23-strong London Legal League (LLL), set up in 1966. But now its founder, retired legacy Baileys Shaw & Gillett partner John Wilson, thinks it […]
Legal market water-cooler chat about Chinese investment into Germany, one of those growth areas that everyone appears to be talking about, got a big boost after the merger between Asian powerhouse King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) and SJ Berwin. But just as German lawyers were getting used to the idea of a major Asian firm […]