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New pressure, new delays: the EU’s double move on AI

December 2025 – Europe has just introduced two significant developments that will directly affect how companies build, deploy, and oversee AI in 2026. One strengthens reporting. The other reshapes key compliance deadlines.

ISS & Glass Lewis – The end of standardised proxy voting recommendations?

December 2025 – For years, proxy advisors Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) and Glass Lewis & Co. (“Glass Lewis”) have shaped voting behaviour at annual general meetings (“AGMs”) of publicly listed companies, including in Austria...

A sector under the spotlight: what recent cases in Romania and at the EU level signal for pharma compliance

November 2025 – Competition and regulatory authorities across Europe are showing renewed vigilance toward the pharmaceutical sector—a field shaped by the intersection of competition law, regulatory frameworks, consumer protection, and IP. Recent cases...

GDPR x AI: When privacy meets machine intelligence

November 2025 – As Europe moves ahead with the AI Act, the European Commission has made clear that there will be “no stop the clock, no grace period, and no pause”, despite calls from major tech players such as Google, Meta, Mistral, and ASML to...

The automotive industry is rapidly transforming through digital technologies

July 2025 – This shift introduces complex legal and compliance challenges under EU law, particularly around data collection, processing, and sharing.

Amendment to the Slovak Act on Information Technologies in Public Administration

May 2025 – The Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic has submitted a proposal to amend the Act on Information Technologies in Public Administration. Its aim is to strengthen the management of the state's...

Franchising Law Handbook

May 2025 – We are pleased to release our Franchising Law Handbook—a comprehensive guide developed by Kinstellar’s team of IP and competition law experts across our jurisdictions. The initiative was led by Partner Natalia Kirichenko to support businesses...

Special legal regime for the protection of intellectual property, established at the beginning of the war, canceled in Ukraine

May 2025 – On April 29, 2025, the President of Ukraine signed Law No. 4362-IX “On the Repeal of the Law of Ukraine ‘On the Protection of Intellectual Property Interests during Martial Law Imposed in Connection with the Armed Aggression of the Russian...

Kinstellar and Strategy Council deliver the 3rd Defence Tech Forum in London

April 2025 – Following on the success of our two previous defence-tech events, Kinstellar and the Strategy Council, in partnership with the Embassy of Ukraine in the UK, were honoured to deliver the 3rd Defence Tech Forum in London on 25 April 25 at...

EUIPO offers SMEs trade marksand designs grants of up to EUR 1,350 again in 2025

February 2025 – The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has launched the 2025 SME Fund, offering up to 75% savings on, among others, trademark and design application fees, as well as pre-diagnostic IP services.