Services
Corporate Law/M&A
Law of Obligations
Medical Law
Transport Law
We can aid you in the everyday course of your business. We’ll take care of ensuring compliance with administrative duties, allowing you to fully concentrate on your business. We also provide legal consultancy in unusual and more complex cases which you may come across in the course of your company’s activities.
If you are preparing a merger or need to establish a company, prepare or update your company’s constitutional documents, increase the amount of registered capital, create or modify the holding structure of your companies or if you are facing disputes within the company, we are here to assist you.
We cooperate with one of the leaders in transaction advisory services, PKF APOGEO, in the area of holding structures, restructurings and corporate transformations.
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Success stories:
We helped our long-term client to carry out a transaction in the form of a share deal where our client acquired a windfarm. The transaction was worth over CZK 200 million.
We also provide legal advice in negotiating contracts, evaluating your legal standing, drafting contracts and assessing potential liability for breach of contractual obligations.
Specifically, we have extensive experience with preparing assessment or revision of almost all types of contracts set out in Act No. 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code, taking into account the need of special adjustments for consumer contracts, as well as drafting and adjusting general terms and conditions and adhesion (form) contracts, and we can help with dealing with warranty complaints, compensation for damage (including contractual limitation of damages) and dealing with unjust enrichment.
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Success stories:
The preparation of contracts is our “daily bread”. We can mention at random preparation of complete contractual documentation relating to the operation of a private archive, drafting of all contracts for a car rental, or preparation of framework contracts for the transport and storage of foodstuffs. These contracts have proven themselves in practice and have helped to prevent or resolve a number of disputes in favour of our clients.
We also specialise in healthcare law, including relationships between healthcare services providers and health insurance companies arising in the provision of and payment for healthcare services and relationships between patients and healthcare services providers involving the provision thereof.
We offer professional consultancy for example in transfer of a private GP’s practice, obtaining required permits to provide healthcare services, in disputes concerning reimbursement of healthcare services, dealing with liability for harm to a patient’s health and in matters related to GDPR and patients’ sensitive data.
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Success stories:
We helped our client, a private healthcare services provider, to achieve out-of-court settlement concerning reimbursement for healthcare services worth tens of millions of Czech crowns. We convinced the other party to settle by a detailed legal evaluation of the requisites of indicated health services.
We offer a broad range of services in the field of rail, road, sea and air transportation and the customs issues.
We advise our clients for example on the acquisition of means of transport, we prepare contractual documentation, deal with the damage-causing events and represent the clients in proceedings carried out by the customs administration. We pay special attention to the effects of the Postal Act on the area of express and parcel services. We use our experience in all areas of transportation in the preparation of logistics projects.
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Success stories:
We successfully represented the client in a lawsuit related to the lease of railway cars which were temporarily detained by the customs authorities in the territory of Ukraine. The court agreed with our argumentation regarding the liability of the lessee of the cars for compliance with the customs regulations of the state in whose territory the cars are operated.
Real Estate Law
IP Law
Labour Law
Dispute Resolution
Our services in the area of real estate law consist especially in drafting quality contractual documentation, resp. in legal advice on adjustment to the contracts, negotiations with authorities or municipalities and representation in relevant administrative proceedings concerning purchase/sale of real estate.
We expertly assist our clients in this area of law, helping them especially with preparing contractual documents for the division of the house into residential and non-residential units, the transfer of ownership title and establishment of mortgage or other rights in rem concerning real estate, including the associated applications for registration of the aforementioned rights in the Land Registry and arranging the payment of the purchase price (including establishing an escrow account). If you are instead renting out real estate, we can help you with drafting a suitable lease or sublease agreement, evaluating existing lease relationships or preparing a notice of termination of lease.
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Success stories:
We assisted our client in the purchase of a heritage-protected real estate – a château with the associated properties with a total area of approx. 150 hectares. The transaction was worth CZK 100 million. Our activities included a comprehensive initial assessment and review of existing lease agreements and usufructuary lease contracts concerning real estate, easements, hunting rights, and a check of obligations relating to forestry and use of the local fishing grounds. We continue assisting our client with the administration of the real estate and acquisition of new properties.
We may help you registering your trademark as a national, international or EU trademark, including the assessment of eligibility for registration and previous searches in the trademark databases. Our practice includes consultancy in the field of industrial property rights, representation in proceedings before the Czech Industrial Property Office, and litigation on the enforcement of industrial property rights, including patent litigation with a foreign overlap.
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Success stories:
For our client – a publisher of periodicals – we manage the entire trademark agenda, register new trademarks and carry out regular searches in the databases. We have repeatedly succeeded with objections or appeals against the registration of similar designations as trademarks or in filling for invalidity of another registered trademark infringing the rights of our client.
We provide consultancy for businesses in the area of labour law. Our services include preparing contractual and other documents, as well as representing our clients before courts in labour disputes.
We offer legal advice in all areas of labour law. Our main specialisation consists in drafting employment contracts and agreements on work performed outside of employment relationship, consultancy in relation to modification of employment (transfer to another type of work or a different workplace), employees returning after impediments to work (e.g. parental and maternal leave) and, most importantly, the termination of employment (including potential disputes), employee/employer liability for damage and work remuneration (salaries in private and public sector, agreed pay under agreements different from employment contracts).
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Success stories:
On behalf of the client who ceased his business in the leased premises, we won an employment dispute with an employee concerning the transfer of rights and obligations from the employment to a new employer – new tenant of the premises. We were also successful in a dispute initiated by an employee who defended himself against the immediate termination of employment due to enrichment at the expense of the employer (using hotel services during business trips).
In cases where a dispute cannot be resolved amicably, we represent our clients in proceedings before common courts of all instances, before the Constitutional Court and even before the European Court of Human Rights. We represent our clients before public authorities and, where appropriate, also in subsequent processes of administrative justice – at the regional courts and the Supreme Administrative Court.
We have experience in representing clients before the Arbitration Court attached to the Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic, as well as before arbitrators appointed ad hoc. Some of the attorneys working for our law office are also registered in the list of arbitrators kept by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic.
Contact person:
Success stories:
We represented the developer in a dispute with a municipality in respect of due performance of the contract for the construction of sports facilities in which the total value of the disputed contract reached nearly CZK 163 million. The dispute was settled on the basis of an amicable settlement out of court for the benefit of our client. We have also been successful, for example, in a legal complex dispute over the ownership of a small hydroelectric power plant or in a precedent-setting administrative action against the Ministry of Health over the specialization of doctors and the so-called “re-registration”.
Administrative Law
Family Law
Criminal Law
Media Law
Administrative law is very broad and diverse area of law covering e.g. construction and spatial planning, the environment, waste management, individual trades, the energy sector etc. In all these fields, we can offer you excellent legal advice including representation before administrative authorities and courts.
We provide legal consultancy consisting for example in representation in proceedings before administrative authorities and courts, including the Supreme Administrative Court, especially in the areas of construction (spatial planning and construction proceedings), law of infractions (e.g. in relation to the Czech Trade Inspection Authority), and proceedings related to our clients’ business activities such as proceedings before trade licensing authorities and proceedings concerning personal data protection.
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Success stories:
We represented our client, a well-known food company, in proceedings before the Arbitration Committee of the Czech Advertising Standards Council in a case involving a complaint directed against the client’s advertisement, which allegedly used the motifs of fear. The Czech Advertising Standards Council accepted our argument that the advertisement was merely using a parody and hyperbole of common stereotypes and decided that the advertisement was harmless. We also have experience with disputes in the field of construction law and environmental law, customs law, subsidies and monument care.
We provide services to our clients also in the area of family law, e.g. with respect to the legal relationship between spouses or between parents and their children.
We offer consultancy and representation before courts in divorce proceedings, dealing with matters of child custody and mutual property relationships, including matters concerning community property of spouses.
Contact person:
Success stories:
In a dragged-out court dispute on maintenance support for an adult child, we successfully achieved the acceptance of increased support by the father and helped conclude a settlement agreement based on which our client received a double of the originally paid maintenance. We gained experience also with cases involving a foreign element and determination of court jurisdiction.
We provide services in the entire range of criminal law. This includes defending clients in all stages of criminal proceedings, legal representation of the aggrieved party in adhesion procedure and assistance with alternative resolution of criminal prosecution (conditional suspension of criminal prosecution and settlement). Additionally, we provide consultancy to the aggrieved parties as well consisting in drafting and filing criminal complaints and consultancy related to initiation of criminal proceedings.
The above naturally includes the drafting of all pleadings (apart from criminal complaints, these comprise especially ordinary and extraordinary remedies, including constitutional complaints) and all consultations with clients, also in prison facilities where necessary (in case of imprisonment or detention).
Contact Person:
Success stories:
In the case of employees leaving the former employer, we represented a client who was suspected of committing criminal offenses of violating regulations on competition rules, unauthorized access to computer system and media and infringement of copyright, rights related to copyright and database rights; in this context, all information carriers used in the course of his business were at the same time prevented from the client We managed to postpone the case before the criminal prosecution began, while maintaining the client’s business activities.
We acquired extensive experience with the conflict of personal rights (privacy, honour, dignity, etc.) and the right to freedom of expression which is an integral part of a democratic society in the field of media law and protection of personality. Thanks to the considerable practice, we can advise you on how to completely avoid infringement of the right to protection of personality in the press, for example, and if the infringement has already occurred, we can help you choose the appropriate satisfaction (including determining the amount of reasonable satisfaction in money) and further procedural procedures.
Contact Person:
Success stories:
We represented a magazine publisher in a dispute where a famous Czech singer and her husband claimed remedies for the publishing of an article which had allegedly infringed on their personality rights. In addition to an apology, the couple claimed a compensation for intangible damage in the amount of CZK 600,000. Their action was dismissed in its entirety.
Corporate Law/M&A
We can aid you in the everyday course of your business. We’ll take care of ensuring compliance with administrative duties, allowing you to fully concentrate on your business. We also provide legal consultancy in unusual and more complex cases which you may come across in the course of your company’s activities.
If you are preparing a merger or need to establish a company, prepare or update your company’s constitutional documents, increase the amount of registered capital, draw up an agreement on discharge of office or if you are facing disputes within the company, we are here to assist you.
Success stories:
We helped our long-term client to carry out a transaction in the form of a share deal where our client acquired a windfarm. The transaction was worth over CZK 200 million.
Contact person:
Law of Obligations
We also provide legal advice in negotiating contracts, evaluating your legal standing, drafting contracts and assessing potential liability for breach of contractual obligations.
Specifically, we have extensive experience with preparing, assessment or revision of almost all types of contracts set out in Act No. 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code, taking into account the need of special adjustments for consumer contracts, as well as drafting and adjusting general terms and conditions and adhesion (form) contracts, and we can help with dealing with warranty complaints, compensation for damage (including contractual limitation of damages) and dealing with unjust enrichment.
Success stories:
The preparation of contracts is our “daily bread”. We can mention at random mention preparation of complete contractual documentation relating to the operation of a private archive, drafting of all contracts for a car rental, or preparation of framework contracts for the transport and storage of foodstuffs. These contracts have proven themselves in practice and have helped to prevent or resolve a number of disputes in favour of our clients.
Contact person:
Medical Law
We also specialise in healthcare law, including relationships between healthcare services providers and health insurance companies arising in the provision of and payment for healthcare services and relationships between patients and healthcare services providers involving the provision thereof.
We offer professional consultancy for example in transfer of a private GP’s practice, obtaining required permits to provide healthcare services, in disputes concerning reimbursement of healthcare services, dealing with liability for harm to a patient’s health and in matters related to GDPR and patients’ sensitive data.
Success stories:
We helped our client, a private healthcare services provider, to achieve out-of-court settlement concerning reimbursement for healthcare services worth tens of millions of Czech crowns. We convinced the other party to settle by a detailed legal evaluation of the requisites of indicated health services.
Contact person:
Transport Law
We offer a broad range of services in the field of rail, road, sea and air transportation and the customs issues.
We advise our clients for example on the acquisition of means of transport, we prepare contractual documentation, deal with the damage-causing events and represent the clients in proceedings carried out by the customs administration. We pay special attention to the effects of the Postal Act on the area of express and parcel services. We use our experience in all areas of transportation in the preparation of logistics projects.
Success stories:
We successfully represented the client in a lawsuit related to the lease of railway cars which were temporarily detained by the customs authorities in the territory of Ukraine. The court agreed with our argumentation regarding the liability of the lessee of the cars for compliance with the customs regulations of the state in whose territory the cars are operated.
Contact person:
Real Estate Law
Our services in the area of real estate law consist especially in drafting quality contractual documentation, resp. in legal advice on adjustment to the contracts, negotiations with authorities or municipalities and representation in relevant administrative proceedings concerning purchase/sale of real estate.
We expertly assist our clients in this area of law, helping them especially with preparing contractual documents for the division of the house into residential and non-residential units, the transfer of ownership title and establishment of mortgage or other rights in rem concerning real estate, including the associated applications for registration of the aforementioned rights in the Land Registry and arranging the payment of the purchase price (including establishing an escrow account). If you are instead renting out real estate, we can help you with drafting a suitable lease or sublease agreement, evaluating existing lease relationships or preparing a notice of termination of lease.
Success stories:
We assisted our client in the purchase of a heritage-protected real estate – a château with the associated properties with a total area of approx. 150 hectares. The transaction was worth CZK 100 million. Our activities included a comprehensive initial assessment and review of existing lease agreements and usufructuary lease contracts concerning real estate, easements, hunting rights, and a check of obligations relating to forestry and use of the local fishing grounds. We continue assisting our client with the administration of the real estate and acquisition of new properties.
Contact person:
IP Law
We may help you registering your trademark as a national, international or EU trademark, including the assessment of eligibility for registration and previous searches in the trademark databases. Our practice includes consultancy in the field of industrial property rights, representation in proceedings before the Czech Industrial Property Office, and litigation on the enforcement of industrial property rights, including patent litigation with a foreign overlap.
Success stories:
For our client – a publisher of periodicals – we manage the entire trademark agenda, register new trademarks and carry out regular searches in the databases. We have repeatedly succeeded with objections or appeals against the registration of similar designations as trademarks or in filling for invalidity of another registered trademark infringing the rights of our client.
Contact person:
Labour Law
We provide consultancy for businesses in the area of labour law. Our services include preparing contractual and other documents, as well as representing our clients before courts in labour disputes.
We offer legal advice in all areas of labour law. Our main specialisation consists in drafting employment contracts and agreements on work performed outside of employment relationship, consultancy in relation to modification of employment (transfer to another type of work or a different workplace), employees returning after impediments to work (e.g. parental and maternal leave) and, most importantly, the termination of employment (including potential disputes), employee/employer liability for damage and work remuneration (salaries in private and public sector, agreed pay under agreements different from employment contracts).
Success stories:
On behalf of the client who ceased his business in the leased premises, we won an employment dispute with an employee concerning the transfer of rights and obligations from the employment to a new employer – new tenant of the premises. We were also successful in a dispute initiated by an employee who defended himself against the immediate termination of employment due to enrichment at the expense of the employer (using hotel services during business trips).
Contact person:
Dispute Resolution
In cases where a dispute cannot be resolved amicably, we represent our clients in proceedingsbefore common courts of all instances, before the Constitutional Court and even before the European Court of Human Rights. We represent our clients before public authorities and, where appropriate, also in subsequent processes of administrative justice – at the regional courts and the Supreme Administrative Court.
We have experience in representing clients before the Arbitration Court attached to the Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic, as well as before arbitrators appointed ad hoc. Some of the attorneys working for our law office are also registered in the list of arbitrators kept by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic.
Success stories:
We represented the developer in a dispute with a municipality in respect of due performance of the contract for the construction of sports facilities in which the total value of the disputed contract reached nearly CZK 163 million. The dispute was settled on the basis of an amicable settlement out of court for the benefit of our client. We have also been successful, for example, in a legal complex dispute over the ownership of a small hydroelectric power plant or in a precedent-setting administrative action against the Ministry of Health over the specialization of doctors and the so-called “re-registration”.
Contact person:
Administrative Law
Administrative law is very broad and diverse area of law covering e.g. construction and spatial planning, the environment, waste management, individual trades, the energy sector etc. In all these fields, we can offer you excellent legal advice including representation before administrative authorities and courts.
We provide legal consultancy consisting for example in representation in proceedings before administrative authorities and courts, including the Supreme Administrative Court, especially in the areas of construction (spatial planning and construction proceedings), law of infractions (e.g. in relation to the Czech Trade Inspection Authority), and proceedings related to our clients’ business activities such as proceedings before trade licensing authorities and proceedings concerning personal data protection.
Success stories:
We represented our client, a well-known food company, in proceedings before the Arbitration Committee of the Czech Advertising Standards Council in a case involving a complaint directed against the client’s advertisement, which allegedly used the motifs of fear. The Czech Advertising Standards Council accepted our argument that the advertisement was merely using a parody and hyperbole of common stereotypes and decided that the advertisement was harmless. We also have experience with disputes in the field of construction law and environmental law, customs law, subsidies and monument care.
Contact person:
Family Law
We provide services to our clients also in the area of family law, e.g. with respect to the legal relationship between spouses or between parents and their children.
We offer consultancy and representation before courts in divorce proceedings, dealing with matters of child custody and mutual property relationships, including matters concerning community property of spouses.
Success stories:
In a dragged-out court dispute on maintenance support for an adult child, we successfully achieved the acceptance of increased support by the father and helped conclude a settlement agreement based on which our client received a double of the originally paid maintenance. We gained experience also with cases involving a foreign element and determination of court jurisdiction.
Contact person:
Criminal Law
We provide services in the entire range of criminal law. This includes defending clients in all stages of criminal proceedings, legal representation of the aggrieved party in adhesion procedure and assistance with alternative resolution of criminal prosecution (conditional suspension of criminal prosecution and settlement). Additionally, we provide consultancy to the aggrieved parties as well consisting in drafting and filing criminal complaints and consultancy related to initiation of criminal proceedings.
The above naturally includes the drafting of all pleadings (apart from criminal complaints, these comprise especially ordinary and extraordinary remedies, including constitutional complaints) and all consultations with clients, also in prison facilities where necessary (in case of imprisonment or detention).
Successes stories:
In the case of employees leaving the former employer, we represented a client who was suspected of committing criminal offenses of violating regulations on competition rules, unauthorized access to computer system and media and infringement of copyright, rights related to copyright and database rights; in this context, all information carriers used in the course of his business were at the same time prevented from the client We managed to postpone the case before the criminal prosecution began, while maintaining the client’s business activities.
Contact Person:
Media Law
We acquired extensive experience with the conflict of personal rights (privacy, honour, dignity, etc.) and the right to freedom of expression which is an integral part of a democratic society in the field of media law and protection of personality. Thanks to the considerable practice, we can advise you on how to completely avoid infringement of the right to protection of personality in the press, for example, and if the infringement has already occurred, we can help you choose the appropriate satisfaction (including determining the amount of reasonable satisfaction in money) and further procedural procedures.
Success stories:
We represented a magazine publisher in a dispute where a famous Czech singer and her husband claimed remedies for the publishing of an article which had allegedly infringed on their personality rights. In addition to an apology, the couple claimed a compensation for intangible damage in the amount of CZK 600,000. Their action was dismissed in its entirety.
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Na Pankráci 322/26
140 00 Prague 4
ID No.: 24195855
Entered under File No. C 187629 held by the Municipal Court in Prague
Na Pankráci 322/26
140 00 Prague 4
ID No.: 24195855
Entered under File No. C 187629 held by the Municipal Court in Prague
+420 224 810 090
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