Britta Grauke

• Injunctive Relief in German Civil Cases – No Longer Possible Without an Oral Hearing? Blog Post — European Disputes Blog — By Britta Grauke, Gero Pogrzeba and Daniel Matijevic — September 13, 2024
  Background German civil procedural law and, in particular, its application by the courts, have up until now offered sufficient flexibility to enable applicants to obtain preliminary injunctions without conducting an oral hearing – a special characteristic that is not found in many other jurisdictions. This is one of the reasons why, in the past, parties ...
• The Weil European Distress Index Blog Post — Weil European Restructuring Watch — By Andrew J. Wilkinson, Neil Devaney, Matt Benson, Jenny Davidson, Lois Deasey, Mark Lawford, Gemma Sage, Céline Domenget-Morin, Jean-Dominique Daudier de Cassini and Britta Grauke — July 15, 2024
  The latest Weil European Distress Index reveals a mixed picture of economic recovery across Europe. Analysing data from over 3,750 listed corporations and financial market indicators, the Index shows a general decline in distress levels, highlighting positive developments in many of the continent’s major economies. Whilst ongoing geopolitical and economic uncertainties persist across Europe, the outlook has ...
• Germany’s Long Way to Class Actions – The Implementation of the EU Directive on Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Blog Post — European Disputes Blog — By Britta Grauke and Gero Pogrzeba — May 23, 2023
  Class actions are historically unfamiliar to German civil procedural law. Transferring the findings and evaluations of a single model case to various cases with a similar background contradicts a cornerstone principle of German civil procedural law - that the assertion of claims on behalf of a third party is prohibited. ...
• German share pledge enforcement: German Federal Supreme Court finally provides clarification on who is entitled to enforce Blog Post — Weil European Restructuring Watch — By Britta Grauke and Matthias Eiden — March 15, 2023
  Since the beginning of the 21st century and the first big wave of security enforcements in Germany, who holds the entitlement to enforce a share pledge has caused countless disputes between pledgees and insolvency administrators. This issue has now been resolved by a recently released judgment of the German Federal Supreme Court of 27 Oct ...
• German Share Pledge Enforcement: German Federal Supreme Court Finally Provides Clarification on Who Is Entitled to Enforce Alert — By Britta Grauke and Matthias Eiden — PDF — March 15, 2023

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