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NWD Legal

Law firm Michal Kroft, Attorney-at-Law permanently cooperating with NWD Legal, has a team of erudite professionals in the Czech Republic, who provide general as well as specialised legal services in all areas of commercial, administrative, civil, financial and labour laws, intellectual property and IT laws, including representation of clients in courts and national or international arbitrations.

NWD Legal is a license granted to Michal Kroft, Attorney-at-Law, with its registered seat at European Business Center, Prague 7, Dukelskych hrdinu 34, PSČ 170 00, Czech Republic, Czech Bar ev. No.: 4277, Identification No.: 65434978, Tax Identification No.:: CZ 6911242030, tel.: 224 215 221, fax: 224 210 244, GSM : +420 737 289 000, e-mail: kroft@nwd-legal.com, www.nwd-legal.com.

Areas of Experience

NWD Legal offers legal consultancy services in all matters pertaining to banking, finance, business, corporate and property rights. The list below shows a summary of the main fields of practice.

General corporate laws

• Corporate laws for private companies and companies traded on markets
• Incorporation of companies, administration of corporate affairs, liquidation
• Increase/decrease of equity capital
• Modification to legal matters of a company, sessions of Board of Directors, General Meeting
• Shareholders agreement
• Joint ventures
• Privatization
• Shareholder rights
• Conformance to registration and reporting requirements
  

Mergers and acquisitions

• Acquisitions and divestment of shares, organizational divisions or property
• Mergers of companies
• Legal audits - due diligence
• LBO and MBO transactions
• Proposal for takeovers
  

Supervision of mergers, competitive and administrative laws

• Management in relation to mergers between companies
• Unfair competition laws
• Activities in relation to the protection of competition
• Public tenders

• State subsidies
  

Real estate

• Purchase and sale of real estate
• Development of projects
• Financing
• Rental contracts for lessees and lessors
• Building laws and practice
• Approval of administration proceedings
• Questions over conformity to legal directives

• Easements and agreements on the common use of real estate
  

Labour laws and employment

• Employment relationships concerning higher management and other categories of employees
• Labour Rules
• Rules for new employees
• General consultancy services with regards to Czech labour laws
  

Banking, finance and capital markets

• Incorporation, mergers and acquisition of financial institutions
• Consultancy services covering the regulation of banks, securities traders, investment funds, pension funds, stock exchange, state and international companies
• Issue of bonds (registered issues and private placement)
• Issue of shares and IPO
• Registration in the Securities Stock Exchange
• Credit links and bond programmes
• Syndicated credits
• Structured financing
• Pledging instruments and warrants
• Securing and property-secured instruments
• Derivates, including credit derivates
• Investment funds and associations
• Risk capital investments

• Crisis management and re-financing
  

Telecommunications and the media

• Telecommunication and media laws
• Regulation issues
• Financing and structuring of telecommunication projects

• Licence administration proceedings
  

Intellectual laws

• Patents, registered marks, copyrights and industrial property rights
• Licences, franchising and sponsorship
• Data protection
• Software rights
• E-commerce
  

Court and arbitration proceedings

• Trade disputes
• Arbitration
• Conciliation proceedings
  

Bankruptcy and settlement proceedings

• Bankruptcy laws
• Restructuring
• Our Philosophy and Ethics
• Knowing just the Law is not enough.
• We build long-lasting partnerships with our clients and design deals that work to resolve conflicts.
• Our professionals have been trained by the most prominent international law firms, institutions and organizations.
• We trust that a legal advisory must serve its clients, not dictate to them.
• We do not have to build "Chinese walls", we are 100% independent & confidential.
• We do not compete with big international law firms who operate in the Czech Republic, we simply beat them. This is thanks to our efficiency and our friendly approach toward helping our clients.
• Clients deserve fair pricing and reliable forecasts of their legal related expenses, our policy is to never overcharge our customers.
• In order to be fully transparent we are implementing technology to allow our clients to track their fees, as well as the progress of their case "on line".O
• Our clients know all of the NWD LEGAL staff by name and remember our faces.

 

Lawyers

Our attorneys-at-law and lawyers have acquired their expert knowledge in a wide range of specialised legal areas and industrial branches. They regularly strengthen their knowledge at various seminars, teleconferences, educational courses and training workshops, which include areas such as project management and administration (Michal Kroft: Garrets, London 1998, International Project, Eindhoven 1999, 2000, 2001; Jan Křivonožka: Trident Seafoods Corp., Seattle 1998, Česká spořitelna, a.s., Prague 2001). Our lawyers also have practical and rich experience with work in project teams, where they have cooperated with specialists in areas of business consultancy, auditing, financial consultancy and tax consultancy from companies like Andersen, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, BDO, Tacoma Consulting and others. Our Prague office has 8 lawyers - Michal Kroft, Michaela Kovaříková, Jan Křivonožka, Viktor Dušek, Lenka Vágnerová, Matěj Koza, Natalia Borisová and Pavlína Tillová.

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