The specialised advisory group for agriculture, food, and forestry is a team of professionals focusing on specific areas with connections to the relevant public authorities and detailed knowledge of the agricultural environment and related issues and provides comprehensive legal services to its clients.
- Extensive know-how relating to subsidy programmes for agriculture
and forestry at the Czech and EU level and the regulation of farming
cooperatives
- Relations between the shareholders and partners of agricultural
companies, commercial contracts (including distribution contracts), and
resolution of contractual relations, including EU law and other foreign
jurisdictions
- Purchase, sale, and disposition of agricultural land, farm animals, and agricultural and food technology and equipment
- Purchase and sale of agricultural and food processing companies.
Close cooperation with a specialised M&A team (45 lawyers) focusing
on mergers and acquisitions and acquisition financing with extensive
experience in structuring and negotiating acquisition financing
contracts, etc.
- Legal advice relating to public authorisation of mergers and
acquisitions in preliminary impact assessments for domestic and
international mergers on the market and the likelihood that these
mergers will be authorised without restrictions, as well as
representation in proceedings before competition offices
- Cooperation with ministries and other public authorities and
government organisations, including the Ministry of Agriculture, the
Maintenance and Guarantee Fund for Farming and Forestry, the Czech Trade
Inspection Authority, and others, as well as contributing to creating
and commenting on legislative drafts in areas concerning agriculture and
food and related legislative processes
- Exclusive legal partner of the Agricultural Association of the Czech Republic
