On 16 May 2025 the International Law Firms Association (ILF) held a virtual conference which focused on the data protection-related challenges the legal profession faces due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence. The virtual conference was an excellent...
Being part of a company group may be beneficial for companies as they can have a stronger financial background and coordinated business decisions. Must this also be taken into account if a company belonging to a group of companies is fined for violating the GDPR? In...
What constitutes a “close connection” between claims against parent company and subsidiary under the Brussels Ibis, allowing both to be sued in the court of one of the companies’ domiciles? Can the “close connection” be a rebuttable competition law...
In a landmark judgment delivered in Societa Italiana Lastre v Agora, the CJEU opened the door wide for asymmetric jurisdiction clauses in the European Union and in the European Free Trade Area. Have the CJEU given green light to every asymmetric jurisdiction...
Automated decision-making involves using technology tools to make decisions that affect the data subjects by applying complex algorithms, for example through the automatic rejection of an online loan application. In such cases, the exercise of data subjects’...
