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Automotive
PETERKA & PARTNERS advises various industry players such as automobile manufacturers, car importers, dealerships, manufacturers of other transportation vehicles (buses, train carriages, and so on), and manufacturers of parts and components, on a wide range of issues including:
- market entry (greenfield/brownfields projects) and exit
- mergers and acquisitions, joint-ventures, spin-offs
- investment incentives, financing
- various commercial agreements (distribution, licensing)
- labour issues including collective redundancies, employee stock ownership plans, and so on.
- intellectual property (rights, registration and protection)
- competition law (merger clearance, distribution, pricing policy)
- corporate restructuring
- litigation including tax litigation
Contacts and references
Iveco Czech Republic (CZ): legal advisory services to Iveco Czech Republic, one of the leading producers of line buses in Europe, on preparing contract documents and a legal assessment of a transaction in connection with the planned supply of buses through a dealer and its financing by a leading Czech bank. Value of the transaction nearly €14 million.
Peugeot Slovakia (SK): Comprehensive legal advisory services to Peugeot Slovakia, a member of the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group, on the acquisition of a local car distributor and repairer in Bratislava, including competition clearance and related corporate issues.
Renault Slovakia (SK): representing Renault Slovakia, a distribution company of a world renowned car producer, in litigation on the protection of its trademark rights to an internet domain name and litigation against its Slovak distributors.
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