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Legal Services

We provide legal services in all major fields of law. Nevetheless, we mainly focus on the following areas:

 

Corporate Law

In this area, we provide complete portfolio of services, including:

  • establishment of and corporate changes to companies and corporations; drafting and negotiating shareholders’ agreements;
  • mergers, de-mergers and transformations;
  • legal support to corporate bodies and their members;
  • restructurings, disposals of businesses and other assets.

Our experience in this area is significantly strengthened by our expertise in the fields of mergers & acquisitions, finance law and property law.

The following attorneys of HKDW handle corporate law matters:

 

Mergers & Acquisitions

M&A matters usually require intersection of all legal skills and expertise in all major areas of law. Regardless of the relevant industry sector, in this area, we provide our clients particularly the following services:

  • assessing legal risks connected with M&A projects, including due diligence;
  • proposing project structures;
  • drafting and negotiating transaction documents.

Our experience and expertise in the area of finance law is to our great advantage.

The following attorneys of HKDW handle M&A matters:

 

Finance Law

In this area, we provide our services to leading financial institutions and groups. We have extensive experience in the area of mezzanine financing. Our services include, amongst other things, the following:

  • defining legal structures and related security instruments;
  • structuring lines of credit;
  • preparing and negotiating loan contracts and related documentation.

Billions of crowns have "flown through" the financing structures proposed and implemented by HKDW.

Our experience and expertise in the area of finance law also plays an important role in our work in the areas of M&A and property law.

The following attorneys of HKDW handle finance law matters:

 

Property Law

In this field, we provide to our clients complex legal services, particularly in the following areas:

  • acquisitions and sales of real property, including related due diligence;
  • leasing and subleasing contracts, real property administration and operation;;
  • complex legal advise in connection with property development, including drafting and negotiating various related contracts.

We represent clients with extensive property portfolios and provide them with complex legal services in connection with their portfolios’ administration.

Our clients also appreciate the quality of our services in representing them before various governmental authorities.

The following attorneys of HKDW handle property law matters:

 

Competition Law

We provide to our clients various legal services in relation to competition law matters, especially:

  • representing clients in proceedings before the Office for Protection of Economic Competition;
  • providing legal analyses and advise in connection with contemplated transactions;
  • representing clients in litigation and other proceedings stemming from economic competition and unfair competition issues.

Our experience and expertise in the area of competition law also plays an important role in our M&A practise and in handling intellectual property matters.

The following attorneys of HKDW handle competition law matters:

 

Intellectual Property and Media

We provide our legal services in all major areas of this legal field, in particular:

  • registration of trademarks and handling related issues, including trademark licensing;
  • enforcement of intellectual property rights, handling of IP infringement matters;
  • drafting and negotiating contracts in the area of copyright (including licensing agreements), software and industrial rights.

The following attorneys of HKDW handle intellectual property and media matters:

 

Litigation and Arbitration

In this field, we have significant experience and expertise gained from numerous matters handled by us, representing both plaintiffs as well as defendants.

Our practise in this area includes mainly the following:

  • handling civil and commercial disputes before courts;
  • representing clients in arbitrations, including international;
  • incidental disputes as well as other proceedings in insolvency.

The following attorneys of HKDW handle litigation and arbitration matters:

 

Administrative Proceedings

We assist our clients in various types of proceedings in this area, particularly:

  • in proceedings before the land registry and building offices and authorities;
  • in proceedings related to issues arising from telecommunications regulations;
  • in proceedings before administrative courts.

The following attorneys of HKDW handle administrative proceedings:

 

Labour Law

In this filed, we advise our corporate clients, namely

  • in preparing various labour-law documentation;
  • elaborating expert analyses regarding solutions of labour-law disputes;
  • handling labour-law disputes.

The following attorneys of HKDW handle labour law matters:

 

Criminal Law

We advise clients in criminal law matters, in particular

  • represent damaged parties in related criminal prosecutions;
  • act as defence counsel.

In our practice, we primarily focus on white collar crime and tax-related offences. We benefit from this specialised expertise also in other areas, especially in corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and competition law.

The following attorneys of HKDW handle criminal law matters: