Warwick Legal Network member firms offer comprehensive legal services to clients across the world. Our member firms’ main services include:
WLN specialists have expertise in all areas of intellectual property, and provide the speedy and flexible service needed in today’s market place.
Services range from protection and enforcement to drafting licenses and agreements that establish access, rights and use of intellectual property.
Commercial law is the body of law that governs business and commercial transactions. It deals with issues of both private law and public law. Our Commercial Group understands the special requirements of our international clients and covers most aspects of commercial law to include:
- Agency
- Company formation
- Contracts
- Distribution
- Franchising
- Insurance
- Intellectual property rights
- Manufacturing contracts
- Partnerships and joint ventures
- Technology
- General terms and conditions
We also deal with most contentious aspects of the above and work closely with our other practice groups such as the Corporate Group, Dispute Resolution Group, Employment Group, Real Estate Group and Tax Group.
The following outlines basic information on national commercial law topics in each jurisdiction: the law relating to Commercial Agency, Distribution, Terms & Conditions (B to B), Franchise and a Template for a Non-disclosure agreements (NDA) plus comments from different jurisdictions on this NDA.
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Corporate law including corporate governance is of vital importance to clients and their stakeholders – from directors and executives to employees, investors and regulatory authorities.
Through Warwick Legal Network our clients have access to lawyers from over 26 European jurisdictions, who have the necessary knowledge and experience with local laws and local governmental agencies. Locally connected and with international experience, WLN member firms are able to provide the best possible advice and support wherever our clients do business.
WLN member firms offer you an experienced team of corporate lawyers handling mergers and acquisitions, corporate structure and restructuring, especially in the mid-market and internationally.
For most of our clients, no two deals are the same and your choice of lawyer is very important to you. What you get with WLN firms is a partner-led, accessible service. And we make a particular point of the provision of ongoing post-deal support, so often otherwise treated as the orphan child.
The following outlines basic information on company law issues in each jurisdiction starting with the law relating to the formation of companies.
Employment lawyers
As international mobility of workers increases within the EU as well as outside, more and more companies are faced with cross-border employment issues. Examples are:
- Cross border secondment of employees: mandatory minimum employee benefit requirements and tax issues;
- Employment of foreign employees: immigration issues and work permits;
- Employment of employees residing abroad: employment law regulations, tax issues;
- Centralized Human Resource Departments of international companies who seek local legal assistance on national employment matters in the countries of domicile of their affiliates;
- Mergers & Acquisitions or company restructuring affecting employees of companies in different countries.
Through WLN members our clients have easy access to knowledge of several jurisdictions.
The following provides an A to Z of national employment law issues in a number of jurisdictions.
Insolvency laws diverge widely by country and local jurisdiction. WLN experts advise on all types of formal insolvency procedures, including liquidations, receiverships and administrations.
WLN lawyers also have extensive experience of advising shareholders and owners, accountants, banks, other financial institutions and borrowers on all aspect of rescue and restructuring, including refinancing, debt rescheduling, sale and lease back, distressed debt issues or court sanctioned arrangements.
In the global economy, business crosses borders.
Through membership in Warwick Legal Network, our members advise (as appropriate to their jurisdiction) on your strategy, carry out due diligence and project management (often multi-jurisdictional) of mergers, acquisitions and disposals.
We prepare shareholder agreements, joint ventures, services agreements, restructurings and de-mergers. The experience of our members covers corporate governance, private equity and employee incentive schemes.
WLN firms ensure that full support is given by our members’ experts in areas such as employment, IP, property, pensions and tax. And of course we work closely together with your other advisors, such as accountants, bankers, Nominated Advisors (NOMADs) and brokers.
Real estate is one of the most valuable assets, many businesses and individuals will own. As such it is important that any real estate, whether for personal or commercial use, is managed by real estate experts.
The Warwick Legal Network contains a number of dedicated real estate lawyers with the expertise to handle the entire property ‘life-cycle’ from the initial purchase, financing, development, leasing and final sale in all sector areas.
Through WLN members, clients have easy access to knowledge of several jurisdictions across Europe.
Some of the areas of expertise include:
- Acquisition – Portfolio and single investment properties, site assembly using options and conditional contracts, sale and leaseback, joint venture arrangements and finance requirements.
- Development – Planning and finance requirements, professional appointments, project procurement and collateral warranties.
- Landlord and Tenant – Lease grants, renewals and acquisitions, estate management (including recovery of rent and service charges).
- Disposal – Estate set up, plot and portfolio sales and creating property management structures.
- Environmental and Sustainability Issues – Compliance with national and European Commission rules concerning carbon reduction and the environmental impact by real estate development. This includes “green” provisions within leases and property and facility management contracts.
Whether you are an individual looking to purchase a holiday home or investment abroad or a commercial developer or investment fund looking to acquire a large development site or portfolio of properties within Europe, the WLN real estate lawyers can provide the relevant advice and guidance.
Probably even more than in other areas of a commercial lawyers’ practice, international cooperation in the field of taxation becomes more and more indispensable. The issues include:
- Application of double taxation treaties (needs tax experts in at least two countries)
- Tax planning of a group of companies with entities in various jurisdictions
- Conflict with tax authorities of a company (belonging to group of companies) in one country, where assistance, information or documents are needed from another country
- Information on important tax developments in local jurisdictions (and with possible repercussions for other countries)
- Tax conditions in view of taking domicile or establishing a company in a foreign country
- …and many others.
Being in WLN means having quick access to an international teamwork of experienced lawyers with knowledge and expertise of law and customs of the country you are looking to do business in. The lawyers in WLN know each other personally, deliver work of the highest standards, and provide their clients with the highest level of cross-border professional advice and representation.
Typical cross-border services include:
- the establishment of companies or businesses abroad;
- advice or litigation with regard to employment-related issues in foreign subsidiaries;
- the acquisition and restructuring of enterprises abroad;
- due diligences;
- trade-agency agreements;
- purchase or sale of real estate;
- debt recovery.
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