Beiträge zum Stichwort ‘commercial agent’

• Commercial Agents: No Entitlement to “Loyalty Bonus”

  Jun 29, 17 • Commercial Law • No Comments • Thomas Schwab
  

  The German law governing commercial agencies includes numerous provisions that cannot be freely chosen by the contracting parties but must be strictly observed. The best known example is the so-called compensation claim, a sort of severance payment a commercial agent can […]

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• Post-contractual non-competition clauses for commercial agents

  Mar 31, 16 • Corporate Law • No Comments • Thomas Schwab
  

  The Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) ruled that a post-contractual non-competition clause contained in a non-negotiated commercial agency contract was ineffective because it violated the requirement of transparency (Section 307 (1) of the German Civil Code). A company asserted claims against […]

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