Posts tagged #company register
All PostsOGH: Shareholders Can Oppose Deletions from Commercial Register
Corporate LawThe Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, hereinafter OGH) has recently granted shareholders party status in proceedings concerning the official deletion of a public limited company (GmbH) from the commercial register. As a result, they now h...
BMJ: Rules on 'Disqualified Directors'
Corporate LawThe Austrian Company Law Digitisation Act 2023 (Gesellschaftsrechtliches Digitalisierungsgesetz 2023) will now implement another part of Directive (EU) 2019/1151 (Directive on the use of digital tools and procedures in company law). This concerns the...
BMJ: Corporate Digitization Act under Review
Corporate LawThe Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice (Bundesministerium für Justiz, BMJ) has submitted the Company Law Digitization Act for review which is designed to implement European Company Law Digitization Directive 2019/1151. When establishing a GmbH (pri...
OGH on the misleading nature of a company name
Corporate LawIf companies are located in the same place or the same municipality, the distinctiveness as a question of the concrete capacity to mislead is not to be examined according to Section 18 para 2 of the Austrian Commercial Code (Unternehmensgesetzbuch, U...
G: Part 2: MoPeG - Major Changes for the GbR
On January 1, 2024, the Act on the Modernisation of the Law on Partnerships (Personengesellschaftsmodernisierungsgesetz - MoPeG) is to come into force. The reform focuses on the civil law partnership (Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts, GbR) with the r...