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 commercial law:

Business Law

  • Establishment of new companies in Austria and in Hungary
  • Implementation of company transformations, reorganizations and restructurings

  • Acquisition or sale of companies, legal due diligences

  • Drafting of shareholder agreements and 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

  • 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

  • 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 relocations, conducting legal due diligences

  • Drafting and implementation of real estate development Projects

  • Representation in matters of building law, regulatory law and land transfer law

  • Advice 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

  • Drafting of all types of business-related contracts concerning Austria and/or Hungary
  • Review of draft contracts
  • Accompaniment of the client during contract negotiations
  • Advice on commercial and distribution law (commercial agent, importer, franchising, 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
  • Advice 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

  • Advice 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 probate proceedings in Austria and Hungary
  • Execution of probate proceedings in written form
  • Representation of beneficiaries in court in inheritance disputes
  • Establishment of private foundations, drafting or amending the declaration of foundation
  • Advice in all matters of foundations

Debt collection, Insolvency Law

  • Automated enforcement of claims before Austrian and Hungarian courts
  • Initiation and management of execution proceedings
  • Drafting and securing pre-litigation payment agreements
  • Initiation of bankruptcy proceedings
  • Representation of creditors in insolvency proceedings

Trade Law

  • Obtaining trade licenses, registration and deregistration of trade locations
  • Recognition of foreign diplomas and qualifications
  • Obtaining permits for business facilities
  • Review of existing trade licenses
  • Advice 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

  • Establishment 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

  • General legal advice regarding the keeping and transport of animals

  • Examination or drafting of contracts in connection with the purchase/sale, keeping and transport of animals

  • Legal advice in connection with the enforcement of or defence against claims arising from the purchase or sale of animals

  • Enforcement of animal welfare claims before authorities and courts

Criminal Law

  • Assumption of defense in judicial criminal cases
  • Advising and representation in financial criminal proceedings
  • Investigation of irregular situations 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 damaged parties in criminal proceedings