Developing the enterprise by acquiring or merging with an entity of similar or complementary business profile can significantly accelerate the growth of the company’s value.
The process of purchase, sale or merger of the company with another entity requires considering legal and economic status of the acquired enterprise or its assets, as well as administrative limitations, business secrets, collaterals, responsibilities and warranties.
The attorneys from our firm provide advice during mergers with other entities or transactions of purchase/takeover of an enterprise. Our counselling services cover the entire preparation process, business valuation, organising and monitoring due diligence, preparing due diligence analysis (which includes a brief description of risks and solutions to problematic issues, as well as a clear action plan), coordination of the work of auditors and attorneys during the transaction, negotiation consulting. In the final phase we provide advice during the conclusion of negotiations in a merger transaction or final negotiations and signing the investment agreement.
counselling in cases related to labour law and environmental protection law.
Affre & Partners is a law firm specialising in competition law, which covers antitrust law, combating unfair competition and consumer law, as well as in industrial property law. We advise our clients in fields such as developing distribution policy, counteracting anti-competitive agreements and abuse of dominant position, consumer law and compliance of agreements and regulations with this law, as well as combating unfair competition, in particular in the fields of protection of reputation, advertisement law, protection of business secrets. As far as intellectual property law is concerned, we provide assistance in trademark, industrial design and patent registration, as well as in protection of know-how, technology transfer and other intellectual property rights.
We represent our clients in administrative proceedings before the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection and other authorities, including the Polish Patent Office and OHIM, as well as in legal disputes related to appeal procedures against administrative decisions and between entrepreneurs. We conduct audits and trainings for entrepreneurs, elaborate and implement compliance programmes.