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Insurers, reinsurers, and brokers face an increasingly unpredictable world, not least because of tougher capital and risk requirements impacting on your business. So you can be certain to meet these challenges successfully, you need advisors with specialist knowledge of your sector and a detailed understanding of the evolving regulatory framework. CMS has helped major insurers establish and expand operations in Central and Eastern Europe. We are the market leader in M&A in the sector, offer dedicated regulatory expertise and have extensive experience from distribution of insurance products to defence of class action claims.

With 100 insurance lawyers across 34 countries, we can protect your commercial interests in your home market and across borders. We provide advice based on strong local knowledge delivered on a Europe-wide basis by expert lawyers, many of whom have worked in the sector or for regulatory authorities. We assist clients on the most complex transactional, advisory and contentious matters. A multi-disciplinary team advises on strategic as well as operational matters, liability and dispute resolution, policy drafting, coverage, regulatory issues, M&A, capital raising and restructurings, HR, tax, real estate and commercial issues.


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19/05/2023
Ten things every in­surer should know in Slov­akia
1. In­tro­duc­tion The ba­sic way of un­der­tak­ing in­sur­ance activ­ity in Slov­akia is by es­tab­lish­ing a loc­al joint-stock com­pany. It is also ne­ces­sary to ob­tain a per­mit from the Na­tion­al Bank of Slov­akia...
Expert Guide Insurance
10/05/2023
At last: in­valid­ity and re­voc­a­tion ac­tions now avail­able be­fore TM of­fices...
One of the most sig­ni­fic­ant in­nov­a­tions in­tro­duced by the EU Trade Mark Dir­ect­ive 2015/2436 (the so-called trade mark re­form pack­age) was the re­quire­ment for all EU coun­tries to im­ple­ment – where not...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
13/04/2023
CMS series: At CEEnter stage
Our en­ga­ging pod­cast and video series, "At CEEntre Stage," is a valu­able re­source for pro­fes­sion­als and leg­al ad­visors seek­ing in-depth in­sights in­to vari­ous Cor­por­ate and M&A top­ics. Our series caters to di­verse busi­nesses in Cent­ral and East­ern Europe, provid­ing com­pre­hens­ive cov­er­age of the on­go­ing chal­lenges they face.Half-hour mod­er­ated dis­cus­sions with leg­al ex­perts and in­dustry lead­ers al­low us to gain valu­able in­sights in­to their vis­ion for the fu­ture, the chal­lenges they face, and ways to im­prove their busi­nesses. We also provide guid­ance on nav­ig­at­ing leg­al com­plex­it­ies and avoid­ing po­ten­tial traps, en­sur­ing our listen­ers re­ceive con­tex­tu­al­ized in­sights in­to the re­gion's dis­tinct­ive busi­ness land­scape and reg­u­lat­ory en­vir­on­ment.Our com­pre­hens­ive cov­er­age of vari­ous in­dus­tries and their on­go­ing chal­lenges makes "At CEEntre Stage" an es­sen­tial re­source for stay­ing ahead of the curve in today's fast-paced eco­nomy. The pod­cast cov­ers rel­ev­ant Cor­por­ate and M&A top­ics from W&I in­sur­ances, FDI to ESOP, joint ven­tures, fin­an­cing and ESG.Tune in to "At CEEntre Stage" today and stay in­formed on the latest in­sights and trends in the world of cor­por­ate law and M&A.
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04/04/2023
European Com­mis­sion amends Art­icle 102 TFEU guid­ance pa­per and an­nounces...
In 2008, the Com­mis­sion ad­op­ted its Guid­ance on the Com­mis­sion`s en­force­ment pri­or­it­ies in ap­ply­ing Art­icle 82 of the EC Treaty (now Art­icle 102 TFEU) to ab­us­ive ex­clu­sion­ary con­duct by dom­in­ant un­der­tak­ings...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
31/03/2023
CMS Ex­pert guide on Right Bid­ding vs Bid Rig­ging
Pub­lic pro­cure­ment rules and their strict ob­serv­ance is of key im­port­ance to en­sure good qual­ity products and ser­vices to cit­izens on the best pos­sible fin­an­cial and ser­vice de­liv­ery terms. An ef­fi­cient...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
28/03/2023
European Par­lia­ment and Coun­cil ready to start ne­go­ti­ations on EU Data...
In Feb­ru­ary 2022 the European Com­mis­sion presen­ted its pro­pos­al for the EU Data Act, which – if ad­op­ted - will in­tro­duce a far-reach­ing leg­al re­gime on ac­cess to and use of non-per­son­al data in the...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
20/03/2023
Out with the old, in with the new? Con­sid­er­a­tions for pat­entees in opt­ing...
So far in this series of blog posts, we began with an art­icle that high­lighted some of the key changes between the cur­rent European sys­tem of pat­ent pro­sec­u­tion and en­force­ment and the new Unit­ary Pat­ent...
Law-Now Unified Patent Court
16/03/2023
Mer­ger con­trol re­view be­low fil­ing thresholds – the ECJ Tower­cast judg­ment...
On 16 March 2023, the ECJ de­cided that a M&A trans­ac­tion, which was not sub­ject to ex-ante EU mer­ger con­trol, can be re­viewed – from an ex post per­spect­ive – as to wheth­er the ac­quirer (through the...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
09/03/2023
Se­cur­ity for costs in en­force­ment pro­ceed­ings in Ger­many – The Ger­man Fed­er­al...
Pur­su­ant to Sec. 110 of the Ger­man Civil Pro­ced­ure Code (ZPO), claimants who do not have their ha­bitu­al place of res­id­ence in a mem­ber state of the EU/the EEA can be ordered to provide se­cur­ity for the...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
09/03/2023
CMS Ex­pert Guide to ESG Com­pens­a­tion
In­cor­por­at­ing ESG KPIs in­to dir­ect­ors’ re­mu­ner­a­tionThe ur­gent need to place sus­tain­ab­il­ity at the heart of com­pany strategy is in­ex­tric­ably linked to in­cent­ives provided to its dir­ect­ors and em­ploy­ees. This...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
08/03/2023
Out with the old, in with the new? Pro­ced­ur­al fea­tures of the Uni­fied Pat­ent...
In our pre­vi­ous art­icle, we looked at the cur­rent European sys­tem of pat­ent pro­sec­u­tion and en­force­ment and high­lighted some of the key changes that will be com­ing with the new Unit­ary Pat­ent and Uni­fied...
Law-Now Unified Patent Court
06/03/2023
Fu­ture im­pact of emer­ging tech­no­lo­gies on IP pro­tec­tion and en­force­ment...
As tech­no­logy de­vel­ops rap­idly, the way in which stake­hold­ers pro­tect and en­force their in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty (IP) is chan­ging and will con­tin­ue to change in the fu­ture, but how? And should ex­ist­ing IP...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
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