Studenac enters pre-insolvency proceedings: EUR 450 million of liabilities at stake On 23 September 2026, Studenac d.o.o., one of Croatia's leading retail chains, filed a petition for the opening of pre-insolvency proceedings before the Commercial Court in Split. The court issued the opening order on 29 September 2026. Total financial liabilities amount to approximately EUR 450 million: approximately EUR 290 million relates to bank financing under a Senior Facilities Agreement with a consortium comprising Bank Polska Kasa Opieki, EBRD, PZU FIZ BIS 1, OTP Bank Plc., OTP banka d.d. and Zagrebačka banka d.d., while trade payables due or falling due within the next 60 days amount to approximately EUR 175.9 million.

As of 2 August 2026, the transparency obligations under Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence, known as the Artificial Intelligence Act or AI Act, become applicable. Article 50 includes four sets of obligations: (i) informing natural persons that they are interacting with an AI system, (ii) marking synthetic content in a machine-readable format, (iii) disclosing deep fake content and certain AI-generated texts, and (iv) informing natural persons exposed to emotion recognition or biometric categorisation systems. These obligations may be relevant for companies that use off-the-shelf AI tools, for example in customer support, marketing, public relations, and other business processes. Every organisation should thus determine how it uses AI and whether, in a given case, it acts as a provider or as a deployer of an AI system.

WAHL’s Corporate & M&A team provided comprehensive legal support to the sellers of PRO-PING, a regional broadband provider with its own fibre and wireless network, in connection with the sale of their 100% stake to Hrvatski Telekom.

The European Commission fined Temu €200 million. Here's the question its decision doesn't answer: what can you actually do about the unsafe charger already in your drawer? On 28 May 2026, the European Commission fined Temu €200 million for breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA). The Commission's mystery shoppers had done the legwork: a very high share of the chargers they tested failed basic safety checks, and a significant number of baby toys carried medium-to-high risks, from chemicals over legal limits to loose parts that could choke a child. The message to the market was unambiguous – regulators are done treating the flood of unsafe goods through large online marketplaces as an acceptable cost of cheap, fast shopping. Yet the fine, however large, leaves untouched a much smaller and much more personal problem. DSA enforcement operates at the level of the platform – risk assessments, transparency, systemic safeguards. It does nothing for the consumer who has already unboxed a defective product. This article is not about the Temu fine, or about the DSA more broadly. It is about something narrower and more immediate: what you, as a consumer, can actually do once a non-compliant or unsafe product bought through an online marketplace is already in your hands.

WAHL's Corporate & M&A team provided comprehensive legal support to the shareholders of DC North, CRATIS d.o.o. and MURAPLAST d.o.o., in connection with the sale of their 100% stake in DC North, one of Croatia’s most advanced data centres, to Gnomon Capital Ltd.