| Bogsch & Partners is an independent law firm advising
clients in all areas of commercial, corporate and business law, M&A,
antitrust, real estate, finance, tax, labour and regulatory law.
Corporate and business law
The main profile of the Firm is corporate and business law, with special
emphasis on acquisitions, investment projects, real estate development
of companies, furthermore tax law, competition law, advertisement law,
media law, environmental law and generally all the civil law fields, that
are closely connected with the establishment and business operation of
domestic companies, and Hungarian subsidiaries or branch offices of multinational
firms. Our services also include providing the foreign mother companies
with the advice and support in all legal aspects that are necessary for
them.
Intellectual Property
The expertise of Bogsch & Partners is widely acknowledged in all intellectual
property matters, including patents, trademarks, registered designs and
copyrights. The Firm provides professional services in relation to application
and registration matters, searches, market surveys, monitoring and watching
services as well as transactional IP due diligence.
Bogsch & Partners has an extensive experience in advice and legal
representation in infringement and piracy cases as well as in other IP-related
litigation at the Hungarian Patent Office and courts. The Firm provides
expert advice on dealing with intellectual property assets, such as trademark,
brand name and copyright portfolios, further on IP and technology transfer,
licence and royalty matters, including tax aspects.
Information technology, media, e-commerce
The Firm is frequently requested to advise on technology related commercial
and regulatory issues, which comprise information technology, computer
software, trading on the Internet, e-business, domain name registrations
and disputes, media regulations and telecommunication services, as well
as franchising, marketing, advertising and unfair competition aspects together
with legal assistance concerning consumer protection and data protection
compliance matters.
Real estate
Bogsch & Partners, acting for its clients, has accomplished a great
number of important investments involving acquisition, development and
sale of real estate, such as major office buildings in Budapest, green-field
investments of a leading IT-company in Székesfehérvár,
acquisition and sale of several plants throughout Hungary and the establishment
and continuous operation of a whole restaurant chain of the largest fast
food operator in Hungary.
Labour, environmental, health and safety
Our practice on all legal and regulatory aspects of labour, environmental,
health and safety matters developed widely throughout the professional
advice for establishment and business operation of Hungarian companies.
This activity includes assistance concerning domestic or foreign employment
and labour permit issues, handling of claims arising from collective interests
and trade union conflicts, drafting and concluding of collective bargaining
and factory agreements, legal advice on lay-off, restructuring, take-over,
lease and allocating of employees, as well as all aspects of outsourcing
schemes. Bogsch & Partners’ expertise covers labour disputes
and litigation cases, further establishment and operation of various employment
systems and their harmonization with quality assurance/management systems.
Competition law
Cartel, antitrust and merger control issues have become the first in which
field European legal regulations had to be thoroughly looked at and the
competition practice of Bogsch & Partners is widely acknowledged both
in project based advice as well as in representation before the Competition
Office by clearance and complaint filing and in front of the respective
Courts.
EU law
With the accession of Hungary to the European Union the Acquis Communautaire
became part of Hungarian law as of 1 May 2004, however, Bogsch & Partners
had been involved for over a decade in advising its clients on all aspects
of EU regulations and harmonization of Hungarian legislation with the EU
rules. The members of the Firm are well-qualified in all major applicable
fields of commercial law as to their European aspects and sophisticated
data room and on-line links to information databases have been established
to provide appropriate update information for them at any time. |  |