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On 7 February 2020, the Regional Court of Munich (docket No. 37 O 18934/17) dismissed the most extensive lawsuit in the truck cartel to date regarding a violation of the German Legal Services Act [Rechtsdienstleistungsgesetz – RDG]. In this guest article, Dr. Vanessa Pickenpack and Dr. Daniel Dohrn discuss the decision of the Regional Court of Munich.

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The COVID 19 crisis is currently dominating the everyday life of companies and defining the legal issues of current relevance. For example, many companies are asking themselves whether the strict antitrust rules are actually still applicable during the crisis and whether they are allowed to cooperate with competitors, for example in order to ensure the secure supply of products. In view of the sometimes drastic price increases for products in high demand, many buyers will have wondered whether this price hike is still permissible.

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A team of Oppenhoff & Partner led by Till Liebau provided comprehensive legal advice to the Munich-based private equity fund Family Trust Beteiligungsholding on the acquisition of Ulm-based alphaQuest GmbH.

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At an early stage of the corona pandemic, the German Federal Ministry of Finance [Bundes-finanzministerium, BMF], after consultation with the federal states, announced in a press release dated 3 April 2020 that special payments granted to employees between 1 March 2020 and 31 December 2020 would be exempted from wage tax and social security contributions.

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The current developments with regard to the spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) also represent a major challenge for the judiciary. Although press releases from various ministries of justice state that the courts are still operating, there are nevertheless considerable restrictions and delays because only an emergency team is still present in the courts, there are access restrictions for the public and the courts are instructed to conduct only those hearings that cannot be postponed.

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The corona crisis poses enormous challenges for medium-sized and large companies alike: companies and their corporate bodies must maintain their capacity to act and, despite the relief provided by the state packages of measures, managing directors, board members and supervisory board members remain obliged to avert economic damage to the company. The following overview identifies the most important organisational and substantive rules for the executive bodies of corporations during the corona crisis.

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Oppenhoff & Partner has advised RheinEnergie AG and EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG on the sale of their total shareholding of 45.1 percent in the listed energy supply company MVV Energie AG.

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The German Federal Cartel Office [Bundeskartellamt] has given the go-ahead for the launch of the digital trading platform "Unamera". The platform is intended to facilitate trade in agricultural products (especially for grains and oilseeds) between agricultural traders and farmers as well as processors. However, certain structural conditions must be met.

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Without a doubt, the COVID 19 pandemic is a topic that also dominates labor law at present. Home offices, claims to a release from work for childcare purposes, protective hygienic measures, short-time work - these are just a few of the key terms that have been determining our everyday life and work with increasing intensity for weeks now. We are keeping you up-to-date on all relevant labor law issues in connection with the pandemic through our newsflashes, webinars, FAQs and other formats.

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In order to counteract the threatening economic consequences of coronavirus, the Federal Ministry of Finance [Bundesministerium der Finanzen, BMF] and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy [Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, BMWi] already announced in a joint statement issued on Friday a package of measures to mitigate the impact, which already included tax deferrals, an adjustment of advance tax payments and a waiver of enforcement measures.

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