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Paul Q has created a highly qualified team of lawyers and thus has secured its position among the market leaders. Paul Q is the choice for clients looking for a young dynamic team with excellent local knowledge and strong international experience. Thanks to the passion and devotion to law, the firm regularly receives awards for its work, whether on a domestic or international level. The team of professionals at Paul Q brings together all the knowledge and skills needed to serve clients in almost all business-related legal practice areas. Paul Q is known as a client-oriented practice with a long-standing commitment to quality, personal approach and innovative solutions.

Main areas of practice:
Corporate and M&A:

• Company formation, including licensing, tax, employment and property leasing matters
• Domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including target due diligence, structuring, negotiation, closing and post-closing assistance
• Mergers, squeeze-outs, spin-offs and other intra-group reorganisations
• Day-to-day corporate matters
• Company secretarial and registered office service

Real estate and construction:

• Title due diligence, acquisitions, sales, financing and development of residential, commercial and industrial property
• Construction and infrastructure projects (including PPP) in particular in the transport, health care and energy sector
•  Residential and commercial lease transactions
• Taking and enforcing security over real estate
• Real estate and construction-related disputes

Labour law:

• Day-to-day human resources and labour relations matters, including drafting of employment contracts and other employment-related documents
• Employee performance and disciplinary issues
• Employee transfers, mass redundancy and severance payments schemes
• Trade union related matters
• Employment-related disputes
• Work and residence permits

Competition:

• Clearances of mergers and joint ventures
• Review of business practices from the competition law point of view
• Antitrust investigations relating to abuse of dominance, cartels, competition-restricting agreements and other reviewable matters
• Representing various clients, both employers and employees, in litigation involving employment termination

Bankruptcy and restructuring:

• All debt collection activities
• Representation of creditors within bankruptcy and restructuring procedures
• Restructuring of financially troubled companies

Dispute resolution:

• Pre-litigation/arbitration strategies
• Settlement through negotiations or mediation
• Civil and commercial litigation in all forums and across various industries, in particular
• Representation in international courts in cases of violations of fundamental rights or in connection with the application and interpretation of EU law

Banking and finance:

• Acquisitions, real estate and projects financing, including syndicated lending and security transactions
• Debt restructuring and refinancing
• Banking and financial industry related regulatory matters
• Registration and licensing of various financial market participants and their products, assistance in the relationship with the competent local authorities

Media and entertainment:

• Rights agreements — authors, screenwriters, actors, musicians, film production
• Pre-publication/broadcast review
• Gaming related matters
• Regulatory issues

Intellectual property:

• Registration of trademarks, patents, designs and inventions, licensing
• Protection of trade names and copyrights
• Unfair competition and misleading advertising
• Litigation involving infringement of IP rights

Public procurement:

• Structuring of the public procurement process
• Review and preparation of tender documentation, including bids
• Support in contractual negotiations
• Public procurement review and remedies

Projects, energy and infrastructure:

• Development and financing of projects
• PPP projects
• Acquisition or disposal of infrastructure or energy assets
• Regulatory issues
• Renewables

Commercial and contracts:

• Support to day to day and strategic business activities
• Advice on all forms of commercial contracts, due diligence, drafting, negotiation and closing assistance
•  Government contracts
• Critical contracts across all sectors