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Arbitration
We also specialize in alternative methods of proprietary dispute resolutions, such as arbitration. Our clients often wish to exclude jurisdiction of courts and delegate their proprietary disputes resolutions to arbitrators or arbitration courts in order to enjoy the benefits of this method of dispute resolutions. We represent clients in drafting arbitration clauses, contracts on arbitrators, arbitration petitions and/or arbitration proceedings.
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Banking
Some banks use our legal services in drafting their contractual documents, especially, credit agreements, security instruments and guarantees of bank receivables, which their enter into with their clients.
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Civil Law
Of course, Civil Law represents the basic specialization of our law firm, which includes several areas not mentioned elsewhere.
For example, it is the area of compensation of damages on property or health, wherein we represent clients in exercise of their rights or rights of their counterparties arising from compensation of damage.
We also represent clients in inheritance proceedings.
The civil contractual law represents a considerable part of our specialization, because we draft and negotiate contract according to the Civil Code and we solve termination of obligations, change in person or content of obligations and their securing.
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Commercial Law
As most of our clients are foreign companies or Czech companies with foreign investment participation, the Commercial Law is a crucial area of our specialization.
Our clients may find with us legal services in Corporative Law from foundation and incorporation of commercial companies (their entry in Commercial Registry), through changes, transformations (mergers, transfer of assets to shareholder, division, change of legal form) of commercial companies, up till their end (liquidation of commercial companies). We often serve as liquidators taking care of all actions necessary for winding-up of companies and their deletion from Commercial Registry.
In acquisitions of our clients we render legal services concerning changes in participation in commercial companies (transfer of ownership interests, stocks). We draft and negotiate for our clients terms and conditions of contracts on transfer of ownership interests or stocks and we represent them in respective registrar proceedings on registrations of changes in Commercial Registry.
We also often apply Law of Holdings, number of our clients is part of some holdings, so we provide to them legal services regarding provision of relationships between related entities (such as Reports on related entities, Controlling Agreements, etc.).
Since our clients take part in economic competition on various relevant markets, we have built our expertise in area of legal provisions of unfair competition. We have experienced several court disputes of unfair competition on different relevant markets of economic competition.
Within Commercial Contractual Law, we write for our clients contracts of their commercial relationships, we represent them in negotiations on conclusion of such contracts in accordance with their interests.
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Copyright Law
Specialization of lawyers of our law firm on Copyright Law has commenced even before establishment of our law firm.
From all subjects to Copyright Law there are most of all rights to audiovisual works (films), audio-visually exploited works, actors' artistic performances and rights of producers of audiovisual recordings (film producers), in which we have the most experiences from providing legal services to foreign and Czech producers of audiovisual recordings (film producers) within the production of audiovisual works (films) in the Czech Republic.
In area of rights to software we help our clients, software companies, in provision of their rights upon creation, distribution and exploitation of their products.
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Criminal Law
In order our legal services to cover various important areas of legal services, we have created a department in our law firm dealing with Criminal Law. We defend clients in criminal proceedings and we represent them with different authorities within the criminal proceedings.
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Debt Collection
After years of practice in debt collection for our clients we can be proud that we worked out a system of legal actions against debtors of our clients, which system has relatively high success in recovery of claims of our clients.
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Economic Competition
During their practice our lawyers besides professional legal knowledge also gained experience in Protection of Economic Competition Law, which our lawyers use for the benefit of our clients - companies participating in relevant markets with their products or services. We provide to them, without limitation, consultations, drafting of and representation in proceedings at the Office for Protection of Economic Competition in the matter of applications for approvals of mergers of competitors and approvals of exceptions from prohibition of agreements interfering with economic competition.
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Family Law
The complexity of our legal services is completed by Family Law. Thereby we satisfy our clients in their interest in legal services in this area, mostly regarding divorces and settlement of marriages, regulation of relationships between parents and children, and in other areas of family law.
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Immigration Law
We provide legal consultation regarding obtaining and loosing of citizenship of Czech Republic, permits to various kinds of stay and visas for foreign citizens, to whom we also help getting these permits, visas and citizenship.
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Information Technologies
Our specialization on Laws of Information Technologies has being used for years by our clients that apply such technologies.
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Insolvency Law
Another area of our specialization is solution of insolvency or threatening insolvency of debtors in insolvency proceedings including bankruptcy, reorganization, setting free of debts and other methods, within which area we represent clients in insolvency proceedings, incidential disputes, creditors' committees, we draft insolvency petitions (petitions seeking declaration of bankruptcy over debtor's assets, petitions seeking approvals of reorganizations, petitions seeking approvals of setting free of debts), incidential petitions, applications of debts in insolvency proceedings and other actions in insolvency proceedings.
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International Private Law
As most of our clients are foreign companies or Czech companies with foreign investment participation or in most cases it is a legal matter with foreign element, we apply other legal areas mentioned herein and consider the factual circumstances with respect to International Private Law. Therefore, if other than Czech Law is governing, we help to our clients in resolving their legal matters with assistance of co-operating foreign law firms.
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Labour Law
Undividable part of our specialization is Labour Law. Our clients are mostly employers, but from time to time employees as well, which clients enjoy our services in matters like establishment, change and termination of employments, disputes arising from employments or contractual provision of some aspects in accordance with the Labour Code or related laws.
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Litigation
Provision of legal services in other legal areas mentioned herein is often connected with representation of clients in courts in court proceedings. Therefore we also specialize on litigation law. For years we have experience in court hearings, where we defend the interests of our clients in their legal matters.
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Real Estates
In area of real estates our expertise includes for example legal titles to real estates, apartments and commercial spaces, when we provide to clients legal advises and draft actions regarding acquisition and transfer of real estates and establishment of rights of third parties to real estates and represent clients in proceedings at respective cadastral offices in the matter of registration of these rights to real estates in cadastr record.
In Construction Law, which is connected with real estates, we provide legal services to owners, constructors, investors or real estate developers with respect to relevant construction authorities regarding placement, construction or changes of buildings.
Within our legal service regarding real estates we also usually draft and negotiate for our clients contracts on leases of real estates, apartments and commercial spaces.
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Securities
We provide legal services in area of Securities Laws to clients, who are interested in conclusion of Contract on Transfer of Securities (such as stocks within acquisition of companies), in issuing of and exercise of rights from securities (such as stocks of joint stock companies, promissory notes).
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Telecommunications
Our specialization on Telecommunication Law started for needs of our clients several years ago. In this time we have gained large professional experience by application of relevant laws in this area.
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Trade Marks
Products and services of our clients are often protected by trade marks registered in registry of trade marks held by Industrial Property Office. In respect of these clients we apply our specialization in area of Trade Mark Law, which includes legal services in registrations, licenses, objections against registration and disputes from breach of trade marks.
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