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The independent commercial law firm Oppenhoff has advised the shareholders of Babybe GmbH on the sale of all of its shares to Natus Medical Incorporated. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price. Babybe has been advised by Oppenhoff since the first financing round.

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On 9 November 2020, the European Council and the European Parliament agreed on new regulations for the control of exports, brokering, technical assistance, transit and transfer of dual-use items. Since the Dual-use Regulation came into force in 2009, it has already been amended several times. The list of controlled items was adjusted annually. As early as in 2016, it became clear that the existing regulation would have to be adapted to the rapid technological, economic and political changes. After years of discussions by the EU Council and EU Parliament, an amendment to the Dual-use Regulation is now within reach. The final draft of this agreement has now been published.

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The corona vaccine is on the horizon. In this context, employers are already facing a variety of questions: for example, can employees be obliged to get vaccinated or can they be denied access to the company without proof of vaccination?

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The independent commercial law firm Oppenhoff has been nominated as “German Law Firm of the Year 2020” at this year's The Lawyer European Awards.

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Companies in the agricultural and food supply chain face many changes In the food supply chains, small and medium-sized agricultural producers are facing what in some cases are powerful processing and retail companies. In the agri-food sector, these include in particular large supermarket chains, large dairies or slaughterhouses.

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As of 1 December 2020, tenants will have a legal claim against their landlords to the toleration of structural changes to install charging points. Commercial lessors are also affected by the reform and will have to tolerate installations by their lessees in future - all in the spirit of promoting e-mobility.

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Oppenhoff has advised VHV Versicherungen on the acquisition of the Eucon Group. The seller is the British private equity fund HgCapital. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

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The mere attempt by a supplier to influence the resale prices of its dealers usually constitutes a violation of German antitrust law. The Higher Regional Court (OLG) of Düsseldorf has now clarified that a final blocking of deliveries to a dealer on grounds of differing ideas about resale prices can be permissible. There is no violation of the German antitrust law boycott prohibition if the blocked retailer cannot be induced to increase its resale prices in line with the supplier’s intentions. A supplier who is unhappy with the pricing policy of a retailer is therefore not powerless, despite the prohibition of vertical price fixing.

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The independent commercial law firm Oppenhoff has been included in the JUVE ranking for the Frankfurt region for the first time. For the annually published JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2020/2021, 34 editors have conducted more than 9,000 research interviews this year.

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The leading commercial law firm Oppenhoff & Partner continues to be very highly recommended by in-house counsel in Germany. These are the findings of the newly published study "Kanzleimonitor 2020/2021". In the largest study of its kind in Germany, Oppenhoff achieved seventh place in the overall ranking according to number of recommendations.

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