KRS provided legal support for the downsizing of a French automotive company's production and workforce in Hungary. Our assistance encompassed labor law due diligence, advisory services, and participation in collective redundancy processes.
KRS was entrusted by the German owner of a Hungarian plastic manufacturing company to provide legal representation and advisory services during the sale. We were pleased to contribute to ensuring the company's continued operations and preserving over 60 jobs.
Our firm developed comprehensive legal and tax solutions for the intra-family transfer of family-owned businesses in the IT and other sectors. This included creating holding structures, asset management agreements, and wills to facilitate smooth succession.
KRS supported the expansion and acquisition efforts of a Hungarian trading company in the purchase of a German-owned wholesale business. Our office played an active role in the legal due diligence, drafting of acquisition agreements, closing the transaction, and developing the related tax structuring.
In a recent decision, the Supreme Court rejected a claim for review in a case concerning the termination of an employment relationship. It ruled that the lawfulness of dismissal is not affected and that it does not constitute an unlawful practice if the employer, for economic reasons, decides not to provide the task in an employment relationship anymore but in another form of a legal relationship.
In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Hungary ruled that if a public employee indicates his/her employer on his/her Facebook profile, the employee may be directly associated with his/her employer, and the content of the employee’s posts may even cause damage to the employer's reputation, and this behaviour may justify the termination of the employment.
As part of the new EU Digital Finance Package, Regulation 2022/2554 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the digital operational resilience of the financial sector, shortly 'DORA', entered into force earlier this year.
Although Andy Warhol passed away more than three decades ago, he is still considered perhaps one of America's best-known artists. The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in a lawsuit between Andy Warhol's Andy Warhol Foundation and prominent rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith could affect the approach of other courts as well.
An e-mail address containing the full name of the data subject qualifies as personal data, the unlawful processing of which does not in itself constitute a violation of the right to privacy. However, there are other stipulations!
According to the decision of the Supreme Court, the termination of an employee's employment contract due to a conflict with the employer constitutes an abuse of rights and grounds for a declaration that the termination is unlawful.
