Legal services
Please find below detailed information about the services we provide to our clients. All our services may be provided in Czech, Slovak, English, French or Russian and are always tailor-made for the individual needs of our clients and their specific situations.
CORPORATE LAW
- establishing companies and setting up branches (drafting founding documents, completion of trade licensing and other administrative procedures, filings with the Commercial Register)
- corporate formalities
- assistance with General meetings and other corporate meetings, representation of shareholders and members, issue of securities, including publicly traded securities
- all corporate changes founding documents, statutory bodies, seat, scope of business activities, etc.)
- administrative formalities, assistance with the fulfillment of disclosure and filing obligations
- groups of companies (review of relationships between controlling and controlled entities, assistance with the drafting of reports on such relationships, drafting of controlling agreements etc.)
- management and statutory bodies (assistance with appointments, recalls, drafting of management agreements and determination of the scope of liability and powers)
- shareholders´ agreements ( provision of advice with respect to legal relationships between various groups of shareholders)
- protection of the rights of minority shareholders (advice on compulsory share buyback offers)
- increases and reductions of share capital
- acquisition and sale of companies and acquisitions and sales of ownership interests/shares (including legal audit)
- winding-up (with or without liquidation) and dissolution of a company
- representation before public authorities (Trade License Office, Commercial register, Courts, supervisory bodies such as the Czech National Bank)
- transformations of business companies (according to the new legislation in effect as of 1 July 2008):
- merger
- division
- transfer of assets to a partner/shareholder
- change of legal form
- preparation of agreements and related documentations, participation in meetings
- Review of all related issues (competition law implications, consents and authorizations, employees and trade unions, legal audit )
- Participation in general meetings, preparation of documentation, representation in all administrative procedures related to the filing of corporate changes with the Commercial Register and other public authorities concerned)
- Advice on sales or acquisitions of ownership interests (enterprise, part of an enterprise, group of assets)
- counseling, drafting, negotiating (sale acquisition lease of residential and non-residential premises, general terms and conditions, commercial representation contract, etc.)
- review of commercial contracts
- termination of contracts and review of related legal issues
- settlement of disputes resulting from executed agreements
- counseling in the following areas
- infringement of competition law (issues related to sale at loss, price fixing, discriminatory practices, refusal to sell services or goods)
- Violation of contractual provisions (non-compete clauses etc.)
- Infringement of legal provisions concerning unfair competition (comparative advertising, misleading advertising, misleading marking of goods and services, illegitimate use of domain names)
- Unauthorized restrictions on competition (prohibited agreements between competitors, abuse of dominant positions) and block exemptions (preliminary review of agreements in order to protect clients from risks of heavy penalties)
- merger of competitors
- preliminary review of transactions
- assistance with filing and representation before the Office for the Protection of Competition
- public tenders
- assistance with drafting of documentation
- assistance with the filing of objections against the decision of the contracting authority
- representation before courts and public authorities
- preparation, setting up of data room, legal analysis prior to and following completion of the transaction
- negotiations and drafting of pre-transaction documentation (term sheet / letter of intent, non-disclosure agreements) transaction documentation (agreements, guarantees, partners/shareholders ´agreements)
- drafting of final reports including an analysis of the report findings on the contemplated transaction
- assistance with respect to the purchase and sale of immovable assets (land, industrial premises, commercial premises, residential premises, existing or under construction)
- assistance with respect to the letting of residential and non-residential premises as well as entire buildings, real estate management (negotiation and execution of contracts, extension, termination of contracts, settlement of disputes)
- counseling in relation to construction law (construction agreements, agreements related to the provision of supervisory services, representation in planning permission and building permit procedures)
- provision of legal services in the field of human resources
- execution and modification of employment and management agreements
- rights and obligations of employees and employers (Works council, work accidents, compensation of damages and liability for damages )
- remuneration (with respect to a non-compete obligation, severance pay, salary assessment, overtime work issues, etc.)
- termination of an employment relationship and related claims (agreement, termination by notice, termination with immediate effect, collective dismissals)
- working hours
- internal regulations and working rules
- temporary agency work, temporary employee placement with employment agencies
- relations with trade unions (collective agreements, negotiations)
- employment of foreign citizens and secondments of Czech employees abroad
- disputes, civil and criminal proceedings in the field of labor law
- risk assessments
- representation before the courts in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (claims and other filings, ordinary and extraordinary remedial measures)
- national and international arbitration proceedings (according to ICC and UNCITRAL rules and rules of other arbitration courts or tribunals)
- representation before the European Court of Human Rights
- drafting and review of relevant contractual documentation (general terms and conditions, guarantee certificates, information brochures, labels and packaging)
- legal assistance and consulting in the following fields:
- selling methods (shipping, sales, clearance sales)
- sale support (consumer contests, games, lotteries, sales at premium, discounts)
- regulations related to products and services (product liability, labeling, technical standards, product certificates, counterfeits)
- advertising (misleading advertising, comparative advertising)
- collecting and processing of consumers ´personal data and registration of data processing with the Data Protection Office
- litigation related to consumer law
- EU legislation (free movement of goods and services)
- loan agreements and securities for commercial obligations ((guarantees, bank guarantees, pledge, security agreement, mortgages). In cases of non fulfillment of obligations by the debtor and/or the guarantor :
- debt collection, filing of claims, preliminary measures ((pledging and foreclosing procedures)
- execution procedures
- documentary payment systems (letters of credit, guarantees, bills of exchange)
- representation in insolvency proceedings
- filing of insolvency petitions
- registration of claims
- protection of the interests of creditors in the course of the insolvency proceedings, at the creditors ´meetings, and creditors´ committee
- incidental claims
- restructuring of companies and their commitments
- trademarks, copyrights, domain names, internet, electronic commerce
- consulting services, negotiations, drafting of contracts and other related documentation
- representation before courts and administrative authorities in relation to administrative civil or criminal proceedings (seizure of goods, other proceedings related to counterfeit claims, preliminary measures)
