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’...
In a significant ruling, the Maharashtra Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (“ Tribunal ”) has upheld the rights of homebuyers under Section 18 of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (“ RERA ”), directing the promoter of the Ekta Parksville project in...
By: Adv. Assaf Kriel (L.L.B, M.B.A, C.I.A, IntArb) AK & Co. (Israel) Recently, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that a choice of law provision in a foreign corporation’s terms of use, which applies foreign law to disputes with Israeli consumers, is invalid....
