Legal services
We provide legal services, in particular, in the following areas:
Corporate law
- Establishing companies and execution of all changes to companies
- Establishing branch offices and subsidiaries of Czech and foreign entities
- Advisory in the administration and ongoing operation of companies
- Organizing and preparing general meetings and meetings of other company bodies
- Representation of shareholders and other persons in general meetings
- Proposing appropriate internal structures within groups of companies
- Execution of amendments to Articles of Association and by-laws, appointing and removing members of company bodies, preparing contracts of service with members of company bodies
- Representation before commercial registers
- Comprehensive liquidation services
Mergers and acquisitions
- Execution of acquisitions and sales of capital participations in companies
- Execution of all types of business transactions
- Execution of all types of transformations of trading companies
- Performing legal audits (due diligence) of companies
- Assistance in negotiations with banks on the provision of investment loans
- Assessing transactions with regard to the protection of competition
Contracts
- Preparation and processing of contractual documentation of all types in the commercial and non-commercial spheres
- Legal assessment of draft contracts and negotiation of their wording
- Asserting liability claims with regard to product liability damages and unjust enrichment
- Legal analyses
Real estate law
- Legal services in real estate construction, including representation in building permit procedures
- Carrying out legal audits (due diligence) of real estate intended for purchase
- Legal services in the sale and purchase of real estate (including cooperation with notaries in escrow provision and payment of the purchase price)
- Legal services in encumbering real estate (easements, pledges)
- Representation at land registries
- Settlement of joint owner relations
- Legal support in development projects
- Legal services in the settlement of lease relations
Employment law
- Advice in the establishment, amendment and termination of employment relationships (preparation of employment agreements, notices of termination, termination of employment without notice and other employment law documents)
- Advice on alternative employment contracts (agreement to complete a job, agreement to perform work)
- Analysis of employment relationships, legal analyses and opinions
- Review of employment law documents, monitoring of legislation
- Employment law audits (due diligence)
- Advice on the preparation of internal rules regarding employment law, staff regulations and other employment law documents
- Collective redundancies, advice on closure of companies
- Advice on agency work
- Dealing with issues with regard to the employment of foreigners
- Representation in employment law disputes
Insolvency
- Advice on impending insolvencies and ongoing insolvency proceedings
- Representation of debtors and creditors at all stages of insolvency proceedings
- Protection against abusive insolvency petitions
- Assertion of claims in insolvency proceedings
Intellectual property law
- Advice regarding copyright and rights related to copyright
- Advice regarding trade mark and industrial design rights (registration, administration and transfer of national and international trade marks)
- Advice regarding patent and invention rights
- Representation before the Industrial Property Office
- Comprehensive legal services in the preparation of licence agreements
- Advice on unfair competition
- Advice regarding know-how and trade secrets
- Representation in the assertion of claims arising from the violation of intellectual property rights
Administrative law
- Legal representation in administrative proceedings, proceedings before tax authorities, customs authorities, building authorities, land registries, ministries and other central government authorities
- Representation in administrative offence procedures and infringement procedures
- Representation in status issues (such as proceedings to issue residency permits and work permits to foreigners)
- Assertion of rights in the administrative field through actions against public administration decisions
- Comprehensive advice in personal data protection
- Comprehensive advice regarding energy law (such as obtaining energy trading licenses, preparation of energy projects)
Litigation
- Representation before courts of all instances in the Czech Republic
- Execution of all necessary legal actions to assert all types of claims before courts
- Representation in arbitration proceedings (including international arbitration)
- Legal support in negotiations on out-of-court settlements