On February 15, 2023, the European Commission referred Croatia, Hungary, and Portugal to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to transpose the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (Directive) into national...more
Securities regulators in Ontario, Québec, Alberta and British Columbia recently announced that they had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency. ...more
Croatia will be the 40th country to join the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). This announcement was made by Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas in coordination with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken...more
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has designated Croatia for inclusion in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). Eligible Croatian nationals who have an electronically readable passport (e-Passport) and who have...more
Law amendments made recently within the fourth Croatian tax reform have targeted the position of freelancers by introducing stricter requirements over the way they set up their business activities to continue to receive...more
Q1/ Applicable legislation - (a) Have the requirements of the GDPR been addressed by introducing a new law, or by updating existing legislation? New legislation has been passed. ...more
A cross-practice team led by partner Tom Astle has advised a syndicate of c.75 lenders under a bespoke €1.06bn super priority loan to distressed Croatian food producing and retail giant Agrokor (the “SPFA“) on an English law...more
Parties involved in cross-border bankruptcy /restructuring situations may be wary of the risk that repeated litigation in different courts with jurisdiction over the same debtor will result in conflicting judgments. The...more
In a recent cross-border insolvency case, In re Agrokor d.d., 591 B.R. 163 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2018), Judge Glenn of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York recognized and enforced a...more
Groundbreaking Held for New Methanol Plant in Kanawha County, West Virginia - "US Methanol expects it will open its first American facility, Liberty One, in mid-2018, which will be capable of producing 200,000 metric tons...more
According to BioPharma-reporter, Pfizer will close the Australian plant at which Pfizer manufactures API for HSP-130, a biosimilar version of Amgen’s Neulasta, by 2021. Pfizer will move production of the API to Croatia in an...more
We are pleased to present the latest edition of Quantum Quarterly, a publication of King & Spalding’s International Arbitration Group. This edition features an interview with Suzana M. Blades and Alberto F. Ravell, Managing...more
Imagine a U.S.-based olive oil company that has established a subsidiary in Croatia — a Mediterranean country ideal for growing olives and processing their oil — for its supply and processing needs. Olive oil consumption has...more