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Legal advice for startups

Nowadays, startups represent a modern form of business that enjoys great popularity. However, establishing a company and starting a business is a demanding process that requires comprehensive knowledge, including in the field of law. In the case of startup projects, we provide comprehensive legal services, from the establishment of the company and throughout its entire existence. Our law firm cooperates with a number of companies operating in various market sectors, which can provide you with potential business partners or investors for your project. If you decide to use our services, we will provide you with:

CORPORATE SETUP

A stable house cannot be built on a bad foundation, and the same applies to setting up a company. The suitability of a company's corporate structure can generally be assessed from two perspectives: a "fraud-proof" structure of the powers of partners and statutory representatives, and a clear arrangement of relationships with a view to the possible future entry of an investor. The basic documents governing the internal relations of a company are the articles of association or the memorandum of association and the company's statutes, the quality of which is essential for a clear definition of mutual rights and obligations. However, Section 66c of Act No. 513/2011 Coll. The Commercial Code also provides for the possibility for partners in commercial companies to define their mutual rights and obligations arising from their participation in the company in separate written agreements, known as partnership agreements or shareholder agreements. Written shareholder agreements or shareholder agreements may regulate any rights and obligations of shareholders, provided that they do not conflict with the legal order or good morals. Within the meaning of the Commercial Code, these include in particular:

1. the manner and conditions for exercising rights associated with participation in the company,
2. the manner of exercising rights related to the management and administration of the company,
3. the conditions and scope of participation in changes to the registered capital, and
4. ancillary agreements related to the transfer of participation in the company.

Our services:

• legal advice in the area of commercial company law,
• establishment of any form of commercial company,
• drafting or commenting on shareholder agreements.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION

The greatest asset of most young companies is their intellectual property, or the intellectual property of their partners, the threat to which can pose an existential risk to these companies. Intellectual property is intangible property that is the product of the intellectual activity of its author. Rights to intellectual property arise either automatically, i.e., by the very act of "creation," as in the case of copyright, or by registration, in the case of industrial property. Trademarks, utility models, and patents are the most commonly registered types of intellectual property.

Copyright regulates the legal relationship between the author and the work, whereby a work is considered to be any work in the field of literature, art, or science that is the unique result of the author's creative intellectual activity perceptible by the senses, regardless of its form, content, quality, purpose, form of expression, or degree of processing. Copyright is acquired at the moment of creation of the work, i.e., it is "sufficient" to write a song or paint a picture for the author to be entitled to the rights arising from their authorship.

Unlike copyright, industrial property rights are acquired by registering them in the relevant register maintained by the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic. Trademarks represent the right to and protection of verbal, graphic, or combined representations of designations that have so-called distinctive character. A patent application is used to apply for a patent, which is a protective document granted for an invention and which entitles the owner to use the invention for a certain period of time. I

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