Significant Amendments and Novelties to Turkish Capital Markets Legislation
Turkey: Significant Amendments and Novelties to Turkish Capital Markets Legislation during the First Half of 2018 This article will address significant amendments and novelties introduced for Turkish capital markets legislation during the first half of 2018 as in line with specific needs and interests of public and private institutions, companies, shareholders and/or investors being subject …
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Employing Foreign Specialists in Ukraine – Rules of the Game Have Been Simplified?
Following the strategy of the Government to improve the doing business climate in Ukraine, Parliament adopted the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Concerning Elimination of Barriers for Foreign Investments Attraction” dated May 23, 2017 (hereinafter – “the Law”), which came into force on September 27, 2017. The Law with …
THE CYPRUS BANKING CRISIS General Court of the European Union Judgments in Cases T-680/13 & T-786/14
On 13 July 2018 the General Court of the European Union ("the Court") issued its judgments on the cases T-680/13 and T-786/14 whereby the claims for compensation based on non-contractual liability launched by several individuals and companies in relation to the Cypriot banking sector claiming damages from the European Union have been rejected.
Domestic violence victims one step closer to receiving greater protection from their employer
The Domestic Violence – Victims' Protection Bill took another step forward in Parliament in June and has now passed its second reading.
A Brief Comparative Study Of The Citizenship For Investment Programmes Offered By Malta And Cyprus.
Introduction In recent years many countries have initiated programmes allowing high net-worth individuals to acquire citizenship by means of investment. Certainly, one cannot deny that this process has been influenced by destabilization of certain regions, globalisation and migration for reasons of stability, prosperity and other personal reasons or financial reasons that such persons may have. …
Harmonising the GDPR in Mauritius
Mauritius is the first country in the southern hemisphere to have recently revamped its data protection legal regime by repealing the previous Data Protection Act 2004 ("DPA 2004") and adopting a new law, namely the Data Protection Act 2017 ("DPA 2017") following the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) ("GDPR") in …
Geographical Indications Of Origin In Serbia: Where The Past Fuels The Future
This article was written by Dragomir Kojić, Partner ⃰, and Tamara Bubalo, Associate ⃰, and was originally published in Issue 5.2 of the CEE Legal Matters Magazine. To see the original article, please follow this link. Geographical indication of origin, this very peculiar form of industrial property protection, has undergone a revival phase over the …
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Striving Towards the Black Gold
This article was written by Petar Mitrović, Partner ⃰, and Nikolina Kažić, Associate ⃰, and was originally published in Issue 5.2 of the CEE Legal Matters Magazine To see the original article, please follow this The first upscale exploration of oil and gas in Montenegro started in 1914, when King Nikola Petrović approved the National …
Montenegro To Publish A Tender For A 200 MW Solar Power Plant
The Montenegrin Government plans to publish a tender for the lease of state land for the purpose of constructing a solar power plant in the municipality of Ulcinj. According to the announcement, the tender envisages a total of 6,621,121 square meters of land for the planning, construction, exploitation, and maintenance of a solar power plant …
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Laying the Foundations: ZF Group Building a Factory in Serbia
The Karanović & Nikolić team, led by Senior Partner Marjan Poljak and Senior Associates ⃰ Ana Stanković and Ana Luković, advised ZF Friedrichshafen on the project of opening an electric vehicle parts factory in Pančevo, Serbia. The German company, a global leader specialising in the design, research and development, and manufacturing activities in the automotive …
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