Commercial Law. Mergers and Acquisitions
Stuchlíková & Partners provides comprehensive legal advice relating to commercial law, company law, and mergers and acquisitions. We assist clients in all phases and areas of their business, from establishing a company, preparing contracts, agreements among shareholders and joint venture agreements, up to providing advice when selling a company.
Our legal advice takes account of the tax and accounting implications of the recommended course of action. We always recommend tax planning and tax optimization before a business venture begins. Our team therefore includes experienced tax and accounting advisors whom we consult when recommending a particular legal approach.
In relation to company law and corporate law, Stuchlíková & Partners provides the following services:
- Establishing companies and cooperatives, including proposals for tax-efficient structures
- Appointing and removing members of a company’s governing bodies
- Relations between a company and members of its governing bodies, including executive service agreements
- Changes to a company’s registered office
- Transfers of ownership interests and shares, and transfers of members’ rights and obligations in cooperatives
- Relations between shareholders, shareholder agreements
- Increasing or reducing registered capital
- Preparing the minutes of general meetings and membership meetings
- Registration in the Commercial Register
- Dissolving and liquidating a company
In relation to commercial law, Stuchlíková & Partners typically provides the following legal advice:
- Drafting or revising commercial contracts and other contractual documentation – purchase agreements, contracts for work, agency contracts, brokerage contracts, franchise agreements
- Drafting or revising business conditions
- Issues relating to joint ventures
- Structuring legal relations between entities in a holding
- Disposition with an enterprise (business)
- Protection of information and know-how
- Precontractual liability
The lawyers and tax experts at Stuchlíková & Partners have extensive experience in company acquisitions and disposals and in conducting comprehensive legal due diligence for prominent Czech and international investors. In connection with company acquisitions and disposals, Stuchlíková & Partners provides the following legal services:
- Legal due diligence and audits
- Drafting and negotiating acquisition documentation
- Post-acquisition changes (changes to bodies, restructuring, transformations)
During the restructuring of companies and business, we provide legal advice in the following areas:
- Planning and implementing transformations or restructuring of companies
- Mergers, demergers, change of legal form, and transfer of assets to a shareholder