SV Legal | INTRODUCTION

Transport law

• Interpretation and application of the Act on Rail Systems (network statement, allocation of transport capacity)

• Legal advice in the field of air transport

• Legal consultations for airport operators

• Legal support in outlining the national and regional train and bus services

• Counselling in the legal areas under the authority of Rail Administrative Authorities and the Railway Inspectorate

• Disputes between contractors and rail transport operators

• Disputes from transport contracts

• Legal advice and evaluation of the compliance of internal regulations of railway operators and rail transport operators with binding legal regulations

Tax advisory

• Comprehensive tax consultancy for individuals and legal entities

• Processing and filing tax returns

• Representation in dealings with the Tax Office

• Performance of registration and registration duties

• Observing legal deadlines for tax obligations

• Advice on bookkeeping from a tax agenda point of view

• Fields of expertise:
      • income tax
      • value added tax
      • road tax
      • real estate transfer tax
      • real estate tax
      • international taxation

Labour law

• Drafting employment contracts, contracts for work, drafting other employment related documentation including managerial contracts

• Comprehensive support to employers in all issues of labour law (internal regulations, entering into and discharging of employment relations, evaluating remuneration structures, working hours adjustment, competitive clauses, etc.)

• Representation in employment disputes

• Legal advice to clients on damages incurred in the employment relationship

• Drafting of internal regulations of the employer (working rules, internal guidelines, etc.)

• Preparation of collective agreements and collective bargaining, communication with trade unions

• Providing training for the staff of our clients

Energy law & petroleum law

• Interpretation and application of the Energy Act

• Tax law and tax advice

• Interpretation and application of the Act on Fuel and Fuel Stations

• Legal advice in connection with the Air Protection Act

• Legal support in designing supplier-customer contractual relationships

Criminal law

• Defence of clients in criminal proceedings including extradition

• Analysis and preparation of the procedural strategy in criminal proceedings

• Representation of clients in proceedings for damages against the Czech Republic on grounds of unlawful prosecution

• Legal aid to clients in submitting an explanation in the context of criminal investigation of the Police of the Czech Republic

• Representing clients when filing appeals to the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic and constitutional complaints to the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic

• Representation of victims in criminal proceedings, including the recovery of damage caused by the perpetrator of a crime

• Drafting expert analysis on criminal law issues

Municipal Councils & Legislation

• Liability of elected members of territorial self-governing units

• Legal support in the implementation of decision-making processes within the self-governing units

• Interpretation and application of the Act on Municipalities and the Act on Regions

• Interpretation and application of the Act on Free Access to Information and the Contracts Register Act

• Legal advice in connection with the Act on Officials of Territorial Self-governing Units and the Act on Civil Service

• Preparing and commenting on legislation

Litigation

• Representing clients in proceedings before civil courts (including the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights) and in arbitrations

• Legal advice for clients prior to the commencement of judicial or arbitration proceedings (analysis of the factual and legal status of the case, proposal of its solution, including possibilities of its alternative dispute resolution, planning of litigation and choice of appropriate procedural tactics, etc.)

• Drafting actions, proposals for the issuing of interim measures, proposals for producing evidence, statements, enforcement proposals

• Representation in insolvency proceedings, registration of claims

Competition law and state aid

• Drafting of legal analysis in the field of competition law (cartel agreements, abuse of a monopolistic or dominant position, mergers, compensation for damages caused by anticompetitive behaviour)

• Representation of clients in proceedings before the Office for the Protection of Competition (ÚOHS) and the European Commission (EC)

• Representing clients in court proceedings on protection against unfair competition

• Legal advice for clients including drafting legal analysis on compliance with state aid rules

Contract agenda

• Drafting of all types of commercial, legal and civil-law contracts

• Real estate transfer contracts - purchase, donation agreement, exchange

• Co-ownership agreements

• Easement contracts

• Contracts for work

• Share purchase agreements

• Brokerage agreements

• Commercial agency contracts

• Contracts for the assignment of a claim

• Lease and sub-lease agreements

• Contracts for the transfer of cooperative membership

• Agreements securing an obligation – pledge agreements etc.

• Transfer of the right to secure an obligation contracts, as well as unnamed or mixed contracts

Privacy Policy & GDPR

• Processing initial GAP analysis as a result of mapping the current state of personal data protection in the company

• Drafting measures, designing solutions and preparing relevant documents to ensure compliance

• Providing DPO services

• Employee training on how to deal with personal data protection

Compliance

• Set up and implementation of a comprehensive compliance programme tailored to the needs of your company

• Implementation and revision of the criminal compliance programme, anti-corruption rules, risk management manuals, codes of ethics or other internal regulations

• Drafting of internal regulations and control of their compliance

• Implementation of effective internal controls

• Staff compliance training

• Drafting of anti-corruption guidelines, anti-corruption audits

• Whistleblowing – setting up the process of reporting unethical or illegal practices

• Developing or amending a methodology to prevent and detect crime

• Review of contracts and terms and conditions from the perspective of compliance

• Assistance with inspections by public authorities

• Forensic investigation (investigation of suspicions from financial fraud or other unethical and illegal financial or business conduct, implementation of fraud prevention measures)

Corporate law

• Company establishment, drafting foundation documents, arranging relevant registrations

• Increase and reduction of registered capital

• Changes in the Commercial Register (company name, statutory body, seat and other)

• Preparation of agreements between shareholders

• Representation in disputes between shareholders

• Company transfers and due diligence

• Advice to statutory and supervisory bodies of the business corporation and their members

• Appointment, dismissal and remuneration of members of corporate bodies, including performance contracts

• Protection of the rights of shareholders and representation in related disputes

• Preparation and organization of general meetings

• Company liquidation

• Comprehensive corporate governance consulting (setting up internal processes of the company to ensure compliance with legal obligations)

Medical law

• Representing healthcare facilities or patients in medical malpractice suits

• Defence of doctors in criminal proceeding

• Providing legal assistance to medical facilities and physicians while setting correct procedures for the provision of healthcare

• Comprehensive legal services to health service providers

Foreign law

• Comprehensive legal support to foreign natural persons in dealing with legal matters in the Czech Republic

• Tax advice to foreign natural persons

• Representing clients in proceedings before the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic on the granting, extension and change of a residence permit in the Czech Republic, including appellate proceedings

• Representing clients in proceedings on a request for new consideration of reasons on the failure to grant a visa, in proceedings on rejection including the lodging of an administrative action against a decision of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic to the administrative court and representing clients in proceedings on this action

Start-UP

• Providing comprehensive legal services for start-ups

• Legal support on corporate, contractual and labour law issues

Civil and Family Law, Debt Recovery

• Comprehensive services in real estate law

• Drafting, legal analysis and review of the contractual documentation

• Law of protection of personal rights

• Law of inheritance

• Family law including marital property law, divorce and custody

• Comprehensive advice on debt recovery from the beginning of legal representation to a final decision and any subsequent enforceable or insolvency proceedings