Business, M&A, Construction, Recovery of debt, Insolveny procedures in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Krizanec & Potocnik

Dalmatinova Ulica 5 Ljubljana 1000 Slovenia

 +386 1 2307680
 +386 1 2307693

www.kpp.si/home-eng
 Contact uros.krizanec@kpp.si

Law Firm Overview

Krizanec & Potocnik Law Firm provides thorough and effective legal representation and personalized legal service in the areas of Business law, M&A, DD, Financial Law, Insurance, Commercial & Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, Real Estate and Labor Law. Our firm represents large, medium, and small corporate entities, as well as entities of public law.

The experienced, ambitious, and dedicated team understands that our clients demand professional, effective, and business efficient legal service. We firmly believe that in recommending the best solutions to its clients a law firm must not only possess sound understanding of its business environment but also adapt to the needs of its clients at all times. Therefore, we are always ready to listen in our attempt to resolve even the seemingly unsolvable problems.

A truly confidential relationship, a highly professional staff, and the quality of our legal service are what we have to offer to all our clients. We remain true to our principles, our professional development, and experience, which help us create a truly exceptional legal service of the 21st century.

Languages: Croatian; Serbian; Bosnian; English.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Corporate Due Diligence; Public Procurement; Public Private Partnerships; Compensation; General Civil Law.

Practice Areas Description

Krizanec Law Firm offers top legal advice and other services both to Slovenian and foreign corporate entities on the following areas of practice:

- Commercial and Corporate Law

Krizanec Law Firm provides legal advice on corporate law with regards to the establishment and management of corporate entities, private institutions, and subsidiaries of foreign enterprises. We believe that in the modern era of globalization, law and business are very much interconnected. Thus, superior service offered to our clients can result only from a profound comprehension of our client’s business activity and overall market conditions.

- Corporate Due Diligence

Krizanec Law Firm provides superior legal services in the field of corporate due diligence. Our lawyers and legal experts make a legal assessment of the risk level concerning a specific business transaction through a careful, precise, and highly professional inspection of the target company’s business. We specialize in the fields of corporate law, contract law for all types of transactions, competition law, labor and intellectual property law.

- International Operations

Krizanec Law Firm is a regular member of several bar associations and organizations. In turn, it can provide Slovenian enterprises and other business entities with legal representation around in the world. The actual lawyer from abroad is always selected in cooperation with our Slovenian client. The process begins with a preliminary presentation of a number of foreign law firms, their practice areas, and the price of their legal service. Throughout the process of collaboration, we then continue to act as a communication channel between our Slovenian client and the foreign lawyer.

- Capital Market

Our Firm provides comprehensive legal services to domestic and foreign enterprises in the field of financial instrument markets. We advise our clients on preparing public security offers and related terms and conditions, on the authorization and licensing process, on the establishment, management, and operations of brokerage and investment companies and on complying with the obligations of publicly traded companies regarding disclosure of controlled information.

- Public Procurement

The public procurement law is a set of rules deriving from commercial, civil and contractual law. Krizanec Law Firm offers its clients, who are both contracting authorities and tenderers, legal advice in the implementation of public procurement procedures, as well as on filing auditing and other claims intended to protect the tenderer’s interests. Our lawyers and legal experts publish scientific articles, textbooks and other publications on the subject of public contracts and participate in the legislative process of adopting law amendments in the subject area.

- Public Private Partnerships

Law governing public-private partnerships in Slovenia is still under development. The experts from Krizanec Law Firm have notwithstanding been involved in a significant number of public-private partnership projects in the country. Our lawyers and other legal experts work with our public partners, namely municipalities or the state, managing the whole process of a public-private partnership, with the emphasis on the selection of a customized model suiting our client’s needs.

- Intellectual Property

The lawyers and legal experts at Krizanec Law Firm are fully aware that in modern-day information society, protection of intellectual property protection is a prerequisite in the pursuit of profit. As a result, Krizanec law firm offers businesses and individuals a high level of expertise and superior legal services in the intellectual property field. We advise our clients on transactions related to copyright, and in particular rights on models, patents and trademarks, while our business clients are advised on concluding contracts related to the protection of trade secrets and their know-how, from the very first contact with the outside company, its employees and other related individuals.

- Insurance

Krizanec Law Firm advises Slovenian and foreign insurance companies in drawing up their general business conditions and in the preparation of standardized insurance contracts. Krizanec Law Firm also represents the companies in court. Our lawyers and legal experts principally specialize in the field of compensations for pecuniary losses and non-economic damage caused to business entities and individuals. With excellent knowledge of applicable legal and insurance practice in fixing the amount of compensation, we assure our clients prompt and adequate compensation.

- Compensation

Krizanec Law Firm represents natural and legal persons in their out-of-court and in-court enforcement of compensation claims in respect of pecuniary and non-economic damage. We always try to achieve an out-of-court compensation settlement, as doing so saves our client’s time and costs. In the event that an agreement with the counterparty cannot be achieved, our clients are promised superb in-court representation, deriving from years of legal experience in the field.

- Construction

Krizanec Law Firm covers the whole spectrum of construction law, which includes contractual, operational and executive law. Our clients are small, medium, and large construction companies. Our lawyers and other legal experts advise clients on signing and implementing construction contracts, as well as enforcing rights arising from such contracts. Krizanec Law Firm experts give regular lectures in construction companies presenting relevant changes in building regulations.

- Real Estate

Lawyers and legal experts from Krizanec Law Firm are involved in the drafting of sales and purchase contracts, pledge agreements and other real estate contracts. With an excellent knowledge of the land register law, our lawyers and legal experts always ensure our clients that the real estate transaction is legally secure, fast and cost effective for them.

- Labor Law

Lawyers and other legal experts from Krizanec Law firm represent employers, managers, works councils, and individual employees in court and in other relevant bodies. Our advantage lies in the careful examination of each case, based on which we provide our clients with a solution that is optimal for them in terms of speed, cost and other legal consequences defined in the Slovenian work code. Our lawyers and other legal experts are involved in the preparation of general legal acts for employers or for employers' associations.

- Taxes and Tax Procedures

Krizanec Law Firm offers its clients basic advice on taxation and tax procedures applicable in the Republic of Slovenia. When it comes to domestic and cross-border business transactions, we provide our clients with tax optimization for their business by setting up offshore companies or companies in EU countries with a more favorable tax environment. Doing so, our law firm always works with cutting-edge domestic and international tax experts, assuming the role of a supervisor of the transaction and a communication channel for our clients.

- Mergers, Acquisitions and other Transactions

Krizanec Law Firm provides comprehensive legal advice to acquiring and acquired enterprises as well as their owners. We offer our clients legal counseling in the negotiation process, execution of due diligence of the target enterprise, and legal assistance in obtaining all the required permits, concluding primary and secondary business transactions, and executing control over the realization of transactions.

- Private Individuals

Krizanec Law Firm is open to all private individuals, offering legal service in the enforcement of their rights both in and out of court. Our lawyers are experts in the area of general civil law and can help with the proposals and implementation of all types of contracts, be it substantive or property, inheritance or family law.

- Insolvency Law

Lawyers and other legal experts from Krizanec Law Firm offer legal advice in the field of insolvency procedures and other methods of forced termination of legal entities. In this complex area of law Krizanec Law Firm represents creditors, debtors and all members of management and control bodies involved in the process.

Lawyers

	Igor Križanec Attorney Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, Real Estate		Uroš Križanec, LL.M Attorney Construction Law, Insolvency, Labor, Litigation
	Maja Potočnik Attorney Corporate Law, Insolvency, Litigation, Media, Public Law

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