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About

Paul Q has created a highly qualified team of lawyers and thus has secured its position among the market leaders. Paul Q is the choice for clients looking for a young dynamic team with excellent local knowledge and strong international experience. Thanks to the passion and devotion to law, the firm regularly receives awards for its work, whether on a domestic or international level. The team of professionals at Paul Q brings together all the knowledge and skills needed to serve clients in almost all business-related legal practice areas. Paul Q is known as a client-oriented practice with a long-standing commitment to quality, personal approach and innovative solutions.

Main areas of practice:
Corporate and M&A:

  • Company formation, including licensing, tax, employment and property leasing matters
  • Domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including target due diligence, structuring, negotiation, closing and post-closing assistance
  • Mergers, squeeze-outs, spin-offs and other intra-group reorganisations
  • Day-to-day corporate matters
  • Company secretarial and registered office service

Real estate and construction:

  • Title due diligence, acquisitions, sales, financing and development of residential, commercial and industrial property
  • Construction and infrastructure projects (including PPP) in particular in the transport, health care and energy sector
  •  Residential and commercial lease transactions
  • Taking and enforcing security over real estate
  • Real estate and construction-related disputes

Labour law:

  • Day-to-day human resources and labour relations matters, including drafting of employment contracts and other employment-related documents
  • Employee performance and disciplinary issues
  • Employee transfers, mass redundancy and severance payments schemes
  • Trade union related matters
  • Employment-related disputes
  • Work and residence permits

Competition:

  • Clearances of mergers and joint ventures
  • Review of business practices from the competition law point of view
  • Antitrust investigations relating to abuse of dominance, cartels, competition-restricting agreements and other reviewable matters
  • Representing various clients, both employers and employees, in litigation involving employment termination

Bankruptcy and restructuring:

  • All debt collection activities
  • Representation of creditors within bankruptcy and restructuring procedures
  • Restructuring of financially troubled companies

Dispute resolution:

  • Pre-litigation/arbitration strategies
  • Settlement through negotiations or mediation
  • Civil and commercial litigation in all forums and across various industries, in particular
  • Representation in international courts in cases of violations of fundamental rights or in connection with the application and interpretation of EU law

Banking and finance:

  • Acquisitions, real estate and projects financing, including syndicated lending and security transactions
  • Debt restructuring and refinancing
  • Banking and financial industry related regulatory matters
  • Registration and licensing of various financial market participants and their products, assistance in the relationship with the competent local authorities

Media and entertainment:

  • Rights agreements — authors, screenwriters, actors, musicians, film production
  • Pre-publication/broadcast review
  • Gaming related matters
  • Regulatory issues

Intellectual property:

  • Registration of trademarks, patents, designs and inventions, licensing
  • Protection of trade names and copyrights
  • Unfair competition and misleading advertising
  • Litigation involving infringement of IP rights

Public procurement:

  • Structuring of the public procurement process
  • Review and preparation of tender documentation, including bids
  • Support in contractual negotiations
  • Public procurement review and remedies

Projects, energy and infrastructure:

  • Development and financing of projects
  • PPP projects
  • Acquisition or disposal of infrastructure or energy assets
  • Regulatory issues
  • Renewables

Commercial and contracts:

  • Support to day to day and strategic business activities
  • Advice on all forms of commercial contracts, due diligence, drafting, negotiation and closing assistance
  •  Government contracts
  • Critical contracts across all sectors

Languages

  • Slovak
  • Czech
  • English
  • German

Memberships

  • TAG Law
  • LegaLink