Corporate oriented Full-Service Law Firm

Avbreht, Zajc & Partners, Ltd.

Šestova Ulica 2 Ljubljana SI-1000 Slovenia

 +386 1 4345400
 +386 1 4345404

www.azodvetniki.com/en/
 Contact Mr. Andrej Kirm

Law Firm Overview

Avbreht, Zajc & Partners consists of a team of 20 experts and has been providing a range of advisory services and legal representation to international clients since 2000. The firm's main expertise is in the fields of Corporate and Commercial law, M&A, Competition Law and Intellectual property law. The firm has offered complete legal support in stock and asset deals, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions. Our specializations are also in the fields of public procurement and public – private partnerships, media law and telecommunications / advanced technologies. Today we are one of the larger Slovenian law firms with even higher ambitions for the future.

Our goal is to offer complete legal support to a client’s business venture in Slovenia and abroad, including dealing with the state and local municipalities, overcoming administrative barriers, acquisitions of permits / licenses, etc. We mostly deal with large and medium size companies from industries such as banking, petroleum, chemistry and pharmacy, insurance, media, construction, new technologies, automotive and others. In the public sector we advise and represent numerous state-owned companies, local municipalities and governmental Agencies.

Avbreht, Zajc & Partners is a IFLR1000 recognised firm and ranked in Chambers Global 2012.

Year this Office was Established: 2000

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Croatian, Serbian.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Wage Violations; Employee Privacy; Divestitures; Confidentiality Agreements; Public Partnerships; Private Partnerships; Building Contracts; Lease Agreements; Debt Collection; Public Procurement; Law of Misdemeanor.

Practice Areas Description

Avbreht, Zajc & Partners' practice includes:

- Corporate Law

Our services in the field of Corporate Law include:

• All tasks relating to the incorporation process such as the drafting, filing and amendment of articles of incorporation, appointment of executive personnel, preparation of meetings, voting, and so on.
• Due diligence reviews of companies and other forms of economic subjects.
• Contribution of assets.
• Advice as to intra- and inter-company procedures and acts and the preparation of any related documents.
• Short-term and long-term capital financing operations.
• Strategic structuring of companies and their affiliates.
• Drafting of shareholder agreements.
• Advice and assistance connected with the day-to-day operations of companies.
• Litigation concerning various corporate disputes such as assignments of shares, disputes between partners, dismissal of company representatives.
• Dissolution and liquidation of companies.

- Mergers and Acquisitions

Our services in the field of Mergers and Acquisitions include:

• Due diligence reviews.
• Mergers and restructurings of companies: drafting of agreements, audits of acquisitions, assignment of goodwill or sector of activity, separation of assets, and so on.
• Joint ventures.
• Acquisition of permits from the necessary regulatory bodies.
• Taking of (majority/minority) participations.

- Civil Law, Commercial Law

Our services include:

• Review of contracts and assessment of legal risks.
• Negotiations.
• Preparation of agreements.
• Keeping companies informed about new regulations that pertain to their business.
• Implementation of general conditions.
• Evaluation of litigation or pre-litigation situations.
• Management of litigation matters before civil and commercial courts.
• Implementation of arbitration proceedings.

- Public Procurement

In accordance with the Public Procurement Act – ZJN-2 and Act Regulating Public Procurement in Water, Energy, Transport and Postal Services – ZJNVETPS, we provide the following services for contracting authorities:

• The complete coordination of public procurement.
• Consulting services for specific steps taken in the process of awarding public works contracts.
• Audit consulting.

In accordance with the Public Procurement Act – ZJN-2 and Act Regulating Public Procurement in Water, Energy, Transport and Postal Services – ZJNVETPS, we provide the following service for tenderers:

• Consulting services for specific steps taken in the process of tender submission.
• Representing tenderers during the opening of their bids and exercising the right to view competitive bids.
• The filing of audit requests, letters of reprimand that conform with decisions made by the contracting authority, and requests for further information about tender submissions.

- Public-Private Partnership

Our law firm offers consulting services during a company's process of selecting the most adequate model of public-private partnership, while taking into account all required resolutions and acts; and we also carry out projects in public-private partnership. The Public-Private Partnership Act draws a line between two forms of conducting a public-private partnership, the contractual partnership and status partnership.

- Employment Law

Our services in the field of Employment Law:

• Contracts of employment: drafting, amendment
• Manager contracts of employment and regulation of status of company executives
• Preparation of collective agreements, general acts, rule books and other employer's acts
• Termination of employment contracts
• Preparation and optimization of employment consequences of reorganizations and corporate restructurings
• Disciplinary proceedings
• Health and safety, working conditions
• Resolution of collective conflicts
• Anti-mobbing programs
• Representation of employers and employees at court and other competent bodies.

- Information Technology Law

Our services in the field of Information Technology Law include:

• Copyright: legal protection and contractual transfer of rights.
• Neighboring rights of copyright (performing artists, audiovisual communications companies, producers of video recordings, producers of sound recordings).
• Patents: legal protection and contractual transfer of rights.
• Models: legal protection and contractual transfer of rights.
• Trademark: legal protection and contractual transfer of rights.
• Assessment of legal risk when dealing with rights of intellectual property in the field of information technology.
• Internet matters.
• Protection of trade secrets (such as those related to software and data bases).
• Web authoring.
• Unfair competition and misrepresentation.
• Joint ownership issues.
• Auditing intellectual property ownership for financing, mergers, divestitures.
• Commercialization of software.
• Software development & maintenance arrangements.
• Hardware & infrastructure acquisition and services.
• Dispute resolution (negotiations, mediation, arbitration & litigation).

- Intellectual Property Law

Our services in the field of IP Law include:

• Trademark law.
• Patent and design patents law.
• Copyright law.
• Schedule of fees and charges.
• Trademark portfolio strategy and management.
• Selection and searching of trademarks.
• Protection of established trademarks and brands from third party unauthorized use.
• Acquisition of, licensing of, and other transactions relating to trademarks, industrial designs, copyrights, and patents.
• Counseling relating to trademark usage, policies and practices.

- Competition Law

Our advisory and representation services in the area of competition law include pre-merger activities (i.e., legal research and impact analysis for contemplated mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, including analysis of the relevant market). On the basis of such analysis we are able to advise you on the optimal structure of the proposed transaction and of the associated risks.

- Tax Law

Our services in the field of Tax Law include:

• Tax advisory services.
• Tax planning services.
• Preparation of transfer pricing documentation.
• Representation of clients in administrative and court proceedings relating to tax matters.

- Real Estate Law

Our services in the field of Real Estate include:

• Acquisition, sale, exchange and other means of conveyance of real estate.
• Entries in the land register.
• Mortgages.
• Division and entry in the land register of floor ownership.
• Representation in all kind of matters regarding acquisition, sale, exchange and other means of conveyance of real estate.

- Criminal Law and Law of Misdemeanor

Our services in the field of Criminal Law and Law of Misdemeanor include:

• Legal consulting on all aspects of criminal and misdemeanor law.
• Assessment of legal risks concerning legal transactions taking into account potential criminal and misdemeanor liability.
• Representation of defendants and victims of criminal offenses.
• Private actions.
• Ordinary legal remedies: appeals, objections, motions for judicial protection.
• Extraordinary legal remedies: motions for protection of legality, reopening of criminal proceedings, extraordinary mitigations of punishment.

- Debt Collection

Our services in the field of Debt Collection include:

• Analyzing the solvency of debtors.
• Pursuing debtors with the aim of reclaiming monies due and owing.
• Contacting debtors
• Performing execution procedures
• Purchase of debts

- Bankruptcy Law

Our services in the field of Bankruptcy Law include:

• Due-diligence reviews.
• Risk analysis and analysis of required actions.
• Counseling regarding restructuring.
• Defense of shareholders, creditors, contracting parties and executives interests.

- Advertising and Media Law

Our services in the field of Advertising and Media Law:

• litigation in legal disputes regarding media law, defamation and invasion of personality rights
• providing advice and assistance regarding communication plans and advertisements
• providing rules of play contest
• providing general terms and conditions of contract
• providing advice in the field of consumer protection law
• providing advice in the field of personality rights law
• personal data law
• demand for the publication of a correction and demand for the publication of reply in accordance with Media Act
• overall legal assessment of event organization (application procedure, application for permits and approvals, copyrights of participants and contractual relationship, organizer’s liability)
• sponsorship agreements

Affiliations

Partners

	Mr. Ales Avbreht Attorney Competition Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions		Ms. Marjeta Erjavec Attorney Civil Litigation, Corporate Law, Corporate Litigation
	Mr. Andrej Kirm Managing Partner Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Asset Protection, Banking and Finance, Banking Law, Bankruptcy		Mr. Borut Zajc Attorney Consumer Law, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property

Associates

	Vesna Borštnar Associate		Ms. Tanja Bratina Associate Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Business and Industry, Competition Law, Intellectual Property, Trade
	Anže Godec Associate		Ana Karlovšek Associate
	Ms. Mateja Malnaric Associate		Ms. Maja Prebil Associate Bankruptcy, Credit and Mortgage, Debt Relief, Debtor and Creditor, Insolvency
	Mr. Jure Zalaznik Associate

Lawyers

	Barbara Knez Kostrevc Attorney		Ms. Vera Kovačevič Attorney Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Labor
	Ms. Tanja Martelanc Attorney Banking and Finance, Business and Industry, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Litigation		Mr. Dominik Nemec Attorney Banking and Finance, Business and Industry, Debtor and Creditor, Litigation, Real Estate
	Ms. Biljana Čamber Pavli Attorney Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Business Litigation, Civil Litigation		Matej Perpar Attorney
	Ms. Ursula Smuk Attorney Corporate Law, Insolvency, Tax

Representative Clients

GlaxoSmithKline Societe Generale Panasonic Bayer NovoNordisk SwissPharma Takeda Group Microsoft DYNACAST

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