badokh

Energy, Industry, Infrastructure

For more than 20 years, our experts have devoted themselves to the issue of energy, industrial, and infrastructure projects, representing major Czech and multinational corporations and financial institutions; they are the leading Czech experts in the field.

For our clients, we procure and coordinate integrated legal advisory services pursuant to Czech law, the law of the investor's or supplier's country of origin, or the law governing the transaction (such as English, Austrian or Swiss law, to name but a few).

Within the field of energy, industrial, and infrastructure projects, BADOKH provides legal and tax services especially in the following areas:

• drafting and negotiating contracts for work, supply contracts, and agreements on the provision of services;

  • EPC contracts and other, similar contracts;

  • individually drafted agreements and agreements pursuant to FIDIC standards;

• foreign industrial investments in the Czech Republic within the context of greenfield or brownfield projects;

• investments into the energy sector, industry, and infrastructure;

• energy-sector and infrastructural regulatory rules, licenses, and permits; interaction with regulatory authorities and other government bodies on the national, regional, and local level;

• public contracts;

• environmental law;

• building law;

• labor law;

• PPP projects;

• competition;

• administrative law;

• corporate law:

  • establishment of domestic and foreign branch offices and holding groups;

  • legal structuring and tax analysis;

  • procurement of licenses and permits;

  • assistance with regulatory, corporate governance, financial, labor-law, and tax issues;

• drafting and negotiating finance documents:

  • representation of investors and financial institutions;

  • structuring financial transactions;

  • drafting credit agreements, security documents, insurance contracts, and side agreements;

  • harmonization of contracts for work with financing concepts;

• representation of clients in disputes:

  • domestic and international litigation and arbitration;

  • legal pre-litigation assessment;

  • assistance in mediation or other forms of alternative dispute resolution;

  • assistance with the enforcement of decisions and the collection of claims.

BADOKH always takes great care to ensure the effective tax structuring of energy, industrial, and infrastructure projects. Moreover, our experts are highly experienced in all areas of M&A, corporate, contractual, and financial law, and regularly assist clients in reaching strategic and tactical business decisions also as regards the structuring of related financial issues.