We are delighted to congratulate our Spanish colleague Clara Badia Bogner on her outstanding achievement at the EuroHockey European Hockey Championships in Mönchengladbach.
After a series of exciting matches against strong international competition, Clara and the Spanish national team secured third place, winning the bronze medal behind the teams from the Netherlands and Germany.
This success is impressive proof of the Spanish team's dedication, team spirit, and performance.
We are proud to have Clara in our ranks, not only as a great athlete, but also as a dedicated and talented lawyer!</
Congratulations, Clara – ¡enhorabuena!
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Ricarda Fahrbach has just published a new edition of the two articles “How to incorporate a GmbH (Germany)” and “Opening a Company Bank Account (Germany)”. First published in 2020 and 2021, respectively, in collaboration with Dr. Axel Reeg, the articles have been updated annually by our law firm ever since.
We always enjoy to support our international clients in setting up their companies in Germany. Together with our partners at Altehoefer - International Tax Consulting - https://www.altehoefer.com, we are also available to advise you on tax law issues relating to your company in Germany.
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The new normal is marked by crises, disruptions and global uncertainty. This challenges our creativity and intercultural as well as cross-border experience. Our focus is still on preventive advice and customized contract drafting. But as the wind gets rougher, disputes – including before international arbitration tribunals - are on the rise. We are well prepared for this, especially in the international context, our domain.
In addition to restructuring and post-M&A issues, in 2024 we needed to handle several site closures for our clients. We are therefore truly more pleased to have new mandates in support of forward-looking projects and cutting-edge high-tech developments.
Our team has grown and become even more international: Nadine Biró has been working very successfully in labour law with us since March 2024. Our Mexico-City-based colleague Dr. Diana Sasse contributes her highly qualified advisory expertise in German Mexican commercial law. While in August, Clara Badia Bogner, a Spanish lawyer and native German speaker, was a successful Olympic participant with the Spanish national hockey team in Paris, she is now with us. And from the beginning of 2025, our clients will be benefitting from advice in the important area of business development support by public agencies through our new of Counsel Michael Grötsch who is highly experienced in this area. Finally, we are particularly pleased about the cooperation with the firm of Altehoefer - International Tax Advisory. This allows us to bridge the gap between international business law and international tax law.
We would like to thank our clients very much for the trust they have placed in us and do wish all of you happiness, satisfaction and good health. 2025 can come!
In August in Paris as an Olympian – now at REEG
As part of the Spanish women's Olympic field hockey team, Clara Badia Bogner was still playing for medals in Paris a few weeks ago. Since the beginning of September, the European junior field hockey champion and highly qualified Spanish lawyer has been part of our law firm team. Clara advises our clients on commercial law issues in Spanish, English, Catalan and, as a native speaker, of course also in German. At the same time, she plays in the first women's team of the Mannheimer Hockeyclub e.V (MHC), which is the current German champion.
Clara: “I am delighted that I can combine my profession as a lawyer with my passion for field hockey in an ideal way at REEG in Mannheim.”
Our law firm team is VERY HAPPY that Clara has joined us. We wish her double success - both as a lawyer and in field hockey at national and international level.
We welcome Diana Sasse as Of Counsel in our team!
Dr. Diana Sasse is attorney-at-law and admitted to the bar in Germany as well as in Mexico. As Of Counsel, she is part of our team and supports us with her great expertise especially regarding matters relating to Mexico. Dear Diana, welcome to our team - we are looking forward to working with you!
The Law Department at the University of Mannheim has appointed Ricarda Fahrbach, Jörg Fischer, and Axel Reeg to teach the English-language course “International Trade Law” as part of its Master's program in Comparative Business Law for the 2024 summer semester. The lecture will focus on approaches to resolving complex cross-border commercial law cases before German and foreign courts and arbitration tribunals.
ICC Conference on Arbitration in Latin America, Miami, November 2023 Axel Reeg has been one of the few regular German participants in the annual ICC Conference on Arbitration in Latin America in Miami for many years. This is the world's most important meeting for arbitration lawyers interested in Latin America. In November 2023, the conference took place for the 21st time with a record number of over 760 participants. Axel Reeg actively participated in the discussions on several occasions.
At the international Autumn Conference of the German Institution for Arbitration (DIS) on September 14, 2023, in Berlin, Dr. Axel Reeg was a speaker on the second panel on the topic “Should Settlements be Encouraged? – a Mock Deliberation.”
In August 2023, the Karlsruhe Bar Association granted Dr. Jörg Fischer permission to use the title “Fachanwalt für Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht" (Specialist Lawyer for Commercial and Corporate Law).
This underscores Dr. Fischer's special qualifications for providing advice in this area.
On July 12, 2023, the first of a total of 79 new ICE-L trains manufactured by our client Patentes Talgo SLU was brought to Germany for test runs and trials. It was particularly gratifying for us that this first train crossed the Rhine just a few hundred meters from our office and entered Mannheim station.
Dr. Axel Reeg has been appointed co-leader of the Practice Group on Settlement Facilitation within the DIS Rules Clinic, together with Patricia Peterson (Paris), Ulrike Gantenberg (Düsseldorf), and Dr. Nicoletta Kröger (Hamburg).
In summer 2022, Ricarda Fahrbach was appointed by the Appointments Committee of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) as sole arbitrator in a commercial dispute. We congratulate Ricarda Fahrbach on her first arbitrator mandate.
Dr. Axel Reeg discussed the decision of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) of January 12, 2023 – I ZB 33/22 – in a brief commentary in the legal journal EWiR 2023, 446-448 (Decisions on commercial law).
In this decision, the Federal Court of Justice takes the view that foreign applicants must also provide security for legal costs when applying for a declaration of enforceability of arbitral awards in accordance with Section 110 of the German Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO).
Axel Reeg is critical of this decision, among other things because it is counterproductive to the goal of strengthening Germany as a place of arbitration.
From July 30 to August 5, 2022, Axel Reeg participated in the IADC Trial Academy at Stanford University. He was the only participant from a civil law jurisdiction and the only non-native English speaker. Among other things, the Trial Academy practiced the usual interrogation techniques used in US-style cross-examinations. He successfully completed the very challenging intensive training with the IADC certificate:
https://www.iadclaw.org/assets/1/6/2022_Trial_Academy_Brochure.pdf
In October 2022, the German Frankenthal Regional Court partially dismissed a lawsuit brought by a well-known supplier of building blocks against our client for alleged trademark infringement by various mini figures in proceedings conducted by Ricarda Fahrbach on behalf of the defendant. With this decision, a court has recognized the fundamental possibility of alternative building block mini figures.