Osborne Clarke advised Allgeier SE on the acquisition of the shares in it-novum GmbH. The transaction is expected to close in the coming days. it-novum GmbH is a digitisation specialist for open source-based software solutions based in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In the last financial year 2020, the company achieved...

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has leapt up seven places in the Kanzleimonitor.de rankings for 2016/17 coming in at seventeenth place, establishing itself among Germany’s top business law firms. On behalf of the Federal Association of In-house Counsel, more than 5,000 in-house counsel from 950 companies in Germany are regularly...

On 6 May 2015 the European Commission published its “Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe”. The Commission’s proposals are aimed at producing a true digital single market, one with – in President Juncker’s optimistic words – “pan-continental telecoms networks, digital services that cross borders and a wave of innovative European...

The issue in brief European data protection legislation provides that transfers of personal data outside of the EEA are prohibited unless the personal data is adequately protected. For personal data transfers to the US, a solution was implemented in 2000 in the form of the EU-US Safe Harbor framework. However...

In December 2015 we reported that agreement had been reached on the long-awaited General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR). We explained how the GDPR shifts the balance towards consumers and summarised the key changes for businesses. On 8 April 2016, the Council of the European Union (the Council) announced that...