What We Do Best
Corporate law in its entirety is among our principal practice areas. We have extensive experience in the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights. We provide full legal support in construction projects as well as in contentious proprietary issues.
Our Specialties
» Corporate law
» Intellectual property
» Real estate
- Establishing new companies and subsidiaries of foreign companies in the Republic of Macedonia;
- Advice and consultation on a day to day operations of companies regarding their compliance with the relevant laws and bylaws;
- Advice and consultation on corporate governance issues, transfer of shares or stakes, the transformation from one type of company into another, and drafting the respective deeds and accords;
- Advice and consultation on joint ventures, partnerships and foreign direct investments in technological industrial development zones in the Republic of Macedonia;
- Advice and consultation on all aspects of mergers, acquisitions and divisions of corporate entities;
- Drafting the respective deeds and accords for mergers, acquisitions and divisions of corporate entities;
- Legal due diligence;
- Advice and consultation on all aspects of bankruptcy and liquidation matters;
- Executing liquidation procedures of all type of trade companies;
- Filing court actions for bankruptcy and representing clients thereof, advice on strategy for the reorganisation of debtors;
- Representing creditors in front of bankruptcy courts;
- Advice and consultation on compliance with competition protection and anti-monopoly regulations;
- Representing clients in front of the Commission for protection of competition;
- Drafting and analysis of commercial contracts;
- Advice and consultation on international trade regulations;
- Filing national trademark applications, CTM (Community trademark) applications and international trademark applications (Madrid Agreement and Madrid Protocol);
- Trademark renewals;
- Assignment and license agreements;
- Advice and representation in the enforcement of trademark rights, filing court actions against infringers, negotiating settlements, and drafting co-existence agreements;
- Customs surveillance;
- National and international searches and monitoring;
- Filing national patent applications, PCT (patent cooperation treaty) applications, and European patent extensions in Macedonia;
- Filing applications for supplementary protection certificates;
- Patent renewals/annuities;
- Assignment and license agreements;
- Litigating patent disputes;
- Filing national design applications and international design applications in accordance with the Hague agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs;
- Design renewals / annuities;
- Assignment and Licence agreements;
- Litigating disputes;
- Advice and consultation on creation and transfer of copyrights and enforcement matters;
- Drafting authors’ agreements, work for hire agreements, publishing agreements etc.;
- Litigating disputes;
- Advice and consultation on all aspects of transfer of technology and know-how;
- Drafting franchise and licence agreements;
- Litigating disputes and negotiating settlements;
- Enforcement of proprietary rights and representing clients in property disputes;
- Advice and consultation on all aspects of buying, selling and leasing of real estates and accordingly drafting the respective sale and purchase or lease agreements;
- Providing full legal support in construction projects ranging from obtaining the necessary approvals and permits for enabling the start of the construction works to drafting the relevant construction agreements and finally obtaining the usage permit and registering the property;
- Representing clients in all court instances regarding disputes within the firm’s practice areas;
- Advice and consultation on litigation strategy;
- Mediation and negotiating out of court settlements;
- Representing clients in front of the Permanent Court of Arbitration incorporated by the Economic Chamber of Macedonia, and other national and international arbitration tribunals;
- Advice and consultation on litigation strategy;
- Negotiating settlements;
- Representing clients in various administrative procedures in front of state administrative bodies and the Administrative courts;
- Public procurement procedures;
- Representing clients in all court instances in criminal matters especially in the field of criminal liability of legal entities and other forms of corporate crimes;
- Advice and consultation on defence strategy;