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Calderbank offers are a useful cost management technique in international arbitration. They can offer significant protection against an adverse costs award. However, a Calderbank offer must be drafted carefully and presented in the right procedural environment. The present blog post offers seven tips for making a Calderbank offer.

Consultants in the blockchain industry are often paid in cryptocurrencies or tokens. However, disputes in this area give rise to particular problems due to the volatility of these assets. One must ask oneself whether to convert the claim into a FIAT currency, thereby avoiding the risk of negative cryptocurrency-market developments during ongoing legal proceedings. Likewise, attention must be paid to a short duration of the proceedings.

On January 1, 2022, the new reporting, transparency, and due diligence obligations under arts. 964a et seqq. CO came into force as a result of the indirect counter-proposal of the rejected Responsible Business Initiative. The provisions will apply for the first time to the 2023 financial year. Lex Futura explains the most important provisions and company-internal responsibilities.

As a result of the adoption of the Swiss Parliament’s indirect counter-proposal to the Fair-Price-Initiative, new antitrust law provisions will come into force on January 1, 2022 (in particular art. 4 para. 2bis and art. 7 para. 2 lit. g of the new CartA). The new provisions introduce the concept of relative market power and thus extend the previous prohibition of abuse of dominance under antitrust law to companies with relative market power. Certain practices that were previously only illegal for companies with a dominant position in the market will now also be illegal for companies with relative market power.
On December 14, 2021, COMCO published a fact sheet and notification form regarding the new regulations.

On August 17, 2021, Insel Gruppe AG, which operates the University Hospital Bern, signed an agreement with the US vendor Epic Systems Corporation for the implementation of an integrated hospital information and steering system (KISS).

Mitarbeiter/in "Operations" 60% ab Oktober 2021 für unseren Standort in Root, Luzern