Our Focus
The focus of our business is on corporate, real estate and employment law.
We provide comprehensive advice to entrepreneurs, managing directors and shareholders as well as private individuals, especially in the following areas of law:
Business Law
- Establishment of new companies in Austria and in Hungary
- Implementation of company transformations, reorganizations and restructurings
- Advising on company acquistions, legal due diligences
- Drafting of syndicate agreements
- Drafting of managing director agreements
- Drafting bylaws for corporate bodies
- Preparation of general meetings and shareholders' resolutions
- Judicial enforcement of claims arising from the corporate relationship
- Advising on winding-up procedures
- Registration of national, international and European trademarks
- Drafting of license or work use agreements
- Defense against unfair competition, measures against misuse of trademarks, cancellation of inadmissible trademarks
- Securing of rapid legal protection through preliminary injunctions
Real Estate Law
- Real Estate Law
- Drafting of purchase contracts concerning real estate in Austria and in Hungary
- Assumption of trusteeships
- Establishment of condominium ownership
- Implementation of property mergers and property divisions
- Drafting of rental agreements, drafting of company leases
- Advising on real estate transactions and business settlement, conducting legal due diligences
- Drafting and implementation of real estate development projects
- Representation in matters of building law, regulatory law and land transfer law
- Advising on other real estate law matters (establishment of land charges and easements, review of existing building and use permits or notices of completion, prevention of acquisitive prescription, clarification of liability issues, etc.)
- Judicial enforcement of all kinds of claims under real estate law
Contract Law, Credit Securities
- Contract Law, Credit Securities
- Drafting of all types of business-related contracts concerning Austria and/or Hungary
- Review of draft contracts
- Accompaniment of the client during contract negotiations
- Advising on commercial and distribution law (commercial agent, importer, franchise, sales subsidiary)
- Drafting of general terms and conditions
- Securing claims arising from contracts (lien, surety, guarantee, etc.)
- Representation in civil and arbitration proceedings in connection with breach of contract by business partners
Employment law
- Drafting of employment contracts
- Assistance in termination of employment (termination by mutual consent, notice or dismissal)
- Drafting of performance-related remuneration (royalties, bonuses, commissions, etc.)
- Drafting of secondment contracts from Austria to Hungary and vice versa
- Drafting of internal regulations for employees
- Advising on other labor law matters (prevention of bogus self-employment, structuring of working hours, clarification of liability law issues, advice in the event of accidents at work, etc.)
- Representation before courts in disputes arising from the employment relationship
Inheritance law, corporate succession, private foundations
- Advising in connection with the transfer of companies to the next generation
- Drafting of testamentary dispositions (will, codicil) and donations
- Preparation of health care proxies
- Representation in inheritance proceedings in Austria and Hungary
- Execution of inheritance proceedings in written form
- Representation of beneficiaries in court in inheritance disputes
- Establishment of private foundations, drafting or amending the declaration of foundation
- Advising in all matters of foundations
Debt collection, insolvency Law
- Automation-supported enforcement of claims before Austrian and Hungarian courts
- Initiation and management of foreclosure process
- Drafting and securing pre-litigation payment agreements
- Initiation of insolvency proceedings
- Representation of creditors in insolvency proceedings (reorganization, remeditation, bankruptcy)
Administrative Business Law
- Obtaining business licenses, registration and deregistration of business locations
- Recognition of foreign diplomas and qualifications
- Obtaining permits for business facilities
- Review of existing business licenses
- Advising in connection with cross-border services
- Representation in all matters relating to trade law
Law of Damages
- General legal advice in connection with contractual or non-contractual damage claims
- Legal advice in connection with traffic accidents
- Legal advice in connection with medical damages
- Screening or drafting of contracts for the purpose of reducing liability risks
- Accompaniment of the client in out-of-court dispute resolution
- Representation before courts in tort disputes
Restitution law
General legal advice in connection with the restitution of looted art
Extensive research activities (archives of museums, authorities and courts; libraries)
Provision of legal historical expert opinions
Drafting of contracts of sale for works of art
Accompaniment of the client in negotiations and in out-of-court dispute resolution
Representation before authorities and courts for the purpose of restitution of looted art
Animal protection law
- Animal protection law
- General legal advising regarding the keeping and transport of animals
- Examination or drafting of contracts in connection with the purchase or sale, keeping and transport of animals
- Legal advising in connection with the enforcement of or defence against claims arising from the purchase or sale of animals
- Enforcement of animal protection claims before authorities and courts
Criminal Law
- Taking over the of defence in judicial criminal cases
- Advising and representation in financial criminal proceedings
- Investigation of irregular facts in companies (in particular with regard to fraud, misappropriation, embezzlement and fraudulent concealement)
- Submission of statements of facts and criminal complaints to the prosecution authorities
- Representation of victims in criminal proceedings