LEGAL CONSULTANCY

We provide high quality legal consultancy tailored to our clients’ specific needs and interests.

In the field of legal consultancy, our focus is mainly on legislation regulating trade unions and their operating as well as dealing with strikes and boycotts in shipping worldwide. We are specialized and we have extensive experience in dealing with industrial relations in the maritime industry, predominantly in relation to the rights and obligations of trade unions, collective bargaining process and Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) and their enforceability and in regard to the prevention and settlement of various types of labour disputes in general and of strikes and boycott actions against ships and we provide advice and consultancy in relation to the legislation dealing with these subjects worldwide.

We also provide legal advice, consultancy services and assistance in the following areas:

  • Maritime Law:

Read more about our intermediation and consultancy services in relation to maritime matters here.

  • Labour and Social Security Law:

We provide our services concerning labour relations and any labour force related issues, trade union operating, strikes, etc. and we offer preparation of internal company’s policies and documents, as well as employment agreements and any other necessary documents dealing with employment/labour.

  • Civil Law:

We offer legal advice and consultancy in various areas of Civil Law, such as Contract Law (i.e., reviewing or preparation of various kinds of contracts for companies and individuals and other needed documents for clients in line with the relevant legislation in Slovenia and in other countries worldwide, providing legal opinions and explanations, etc.), Real Estate Law (i.e., drafting, reviewing and consultancy regarding real estate contracts, such as sales contracts, deeds of gift, lease contracts and other real estate related contracts, consultancy when buying, selling or leasing real estate, due diligence on the legal status of the real estate, land registry proceedings, etc.), Inheritance Law and Family Law.

  • Tax law:

We are cooperating with external experts to provide clients with a comprehensive approach in business and personal tax matters, both in Slovenia and around the world, in order to assist in enabling tax-optimal business.

  • Commercial and Corporate Law:

We provide legal advice, consultancy and assistance in all stages of business from establishment of companies and creation of legal acts, legal due diligence procedures, meaning providing analysis of the organizational and legal structure of the company, review of all information relevant to the company’s business operations and assessment of its legal position, to procedures for acquisitions, divisions, mergers and termination of companies.

  • Personal data protection:

We also offer our services in relation to Personal data protection law, such as inspecting and preparing company’s acts and policies to make sure that the company’s operations and approach to data protection are compliant with the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), which went into effect on May 25, 2018, for companies and organisations operating within the EU and those outside the EU that offer goods or services to individuals in the EU, and with other relevant regulations on the protection of personal data at the international level.

  • Passenger rights:

We offer advice, consultancy and assistance in relation to passenger rights and we assist our clients in exercising them, such as entitlement to compensation and reimbursement of costs in certain cases, etc., with our area of expertise being air travel.