Legal Consultancy Service

Investing in a foreign country can be advantageous and complex at the same time. At this point, taking a step forward without knowing related laws and regulations well can bring you extra costs that you didn’t consider or delays in your business.

As InvestLatvia.net, we provide legal consulting to you and represent you so that you can protect your rights in courtroom. Additionally, we provide necessary support and suggestions about legal topics out of courtroom. Thanks to our expertise in legal counseling and experience that we have, you can be sure that all your rights are under guarantee. Our expertise fields for which we provide legal support are as below:

• >>> CONTRACTS
• >>> LABOUR LAW
• >>> LEGAL ADVICE ON COMPUTER SOFTWARE
• >>> COMPANY FORMATION AND CHANGES
• >>> LEGAL ADVICE
• >>> LEGAL SUPPORT OF NATURAL AND LEGAL ENTITIES
• >>> LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN REAL ESTATE ISSUES
• >>> CLIENT REPRESENTATION IN COURTS AND ARBITRATION

CONTRACTS:

Legal processes, which are assured to be realized and followed, that are agreed upon between two or more people or parties are named as agreements. Agreements are prepared based on parties’ requests and at the end, approved by all parties. After that point, laws come in to protect any party’s rights based on that agreement.

• > Not following agreement requirements,
• > Ways to follow in case of annulment, cancellation and invalidness of an agreement,
• > Things to be requested from other party/parties,
• > Loss indemnification and similar cases are in the scope of law of contracts.

We track all processes within this scope for you and we protect your contractual rights. Except this, we create agreements in the fields shared below and we meet your requirements in these fields as well. Agreements that we can prepare for you are:

• >>> Loan agreements
• >>> Donation contracts
• >>> Employment contracts (including collective agreements)
• >>> Loan agreements
• >>> Support contracts
• >>> Supply and transportation contracts
• >>> Construction and other work contracts
• >>> Mortgage and surety agreements
• >>> Sale and purchase contracts;
• >>> Lease and rental agreements
• >>> Management contracts
• >>> Company (contractor) contracts and other civil contracts upon the customer’s request

LABOUR LAW:

Working rules, job definitions, labor contracts, labor related regulations and all other related details are in the scope of labor law. In order to prevent loss of a right and aggrievements, it is required to get labor law counseling. We meet your requirements at this point, thanks to our experience and expertise in this field. Services that we provide relating to labor law are as follows:

• >>> Advice in employment relations
• >>> Employment contracts and job descriptions to meet customer requirements and expectations
• >>> Developing work safety, internal order and fire safety regulations
• >>> Representation in courts and other labour dispute settlement institutions
• >>> Protection of confidential information and intellectual property
• >>> Competition limitations upon termination of employment relationships

LEGAL ADVICE ON COMPUTER SOFTWARE:

Due to the point technology reached today, many things are processed online. For such online processes, being compliant with information technology law has great importance so that future problems can be prevented. Therefore, it is very important to get legal consulting before taking a step related with anything about computer software field. With the support that we provide to you, you can run your business in this field flawlessly. We provide following supports:

• >>> Advice on legality of software, restrictions, and other specific licensing issues
• >>> Software audit, pursuant to the current RL legislation and producer licensing terms
• >>> Advice on software acquisition and license prolongation

COMPANY FORMATION AND CHANGES:

Company creation is an important process in which some official things are required to be done. Taking right steps during this process will save your time and money.

With legal consulting that we will provide to you, you will prepare all necessary documents and complete other complex requirements without any hassle. We will track many different processes for you. This way, you will complete this process flawlessly.

We perform activities of any complexity related to the preparation and submission of company documents to the Register of Enterprises:

• >>> Drafting Articles of Association and other necessary documents of a newly established company (IM, Ltd, PF, JSC, OJSC, PA, LLP etc.) for submission to the Register of Enterprises (including opening a bank account and document notarization)
• >>> Solutions for reducing foundation costs
• >>> Introducing changes to existing corporate documents (share capital increases and decreases, issuing new shares, reorganizations, mergers, changes of name and business address, changes in the composition of the members and the board, registration and cancellation of procuration, commercial pledges, changes to representation titles of members of the board, selling and buying company shares, etc.)
• >>> All other activities and advice related to changes in your company, in order to ensure the protection of your rights and material values from third parties.

LEGAL ADVICE:

No matter if it is personal or business related, everything you do has to be compliant with laws. At this point, we provide legal consulting to you about your activities in Latvia. So, we prevent you from experiencing legal problems and losing of any right accordingly. Legal advices that we provide to you are generally about the following fields:

• >>> Consultations on the legislation of the Republic of Latvia and solutions to current legal issues
• >>> Problem analysis and preparation of solutions to suit the client’s case
• >>> Representing the client’s interests in court (preparing applications, submission to court, maintenance of the claim, provision of the claim, lien on a debt estate and other necessary activities)
• >>> Representing the client’s interests in other state and municipal institutions

LEGAL CONSULTING FOR NATURAL AND LEGAL ENTITIES:

We provide legal consulting about activities of natural persons and legal entities in Latvia. We complete processes like ensuring conformity to laws, preparing necessary documents and preparing agreements based on related regulations for you. With our legal assistance, all your processes will be legitimate. The support that we provide is as follows:

• >>> Drafting contracts
• >>> Preparing documentation according to Latvian legislative requirements
• >>> Legal advice in legislation and recordkeeping issues
• >>> Representation of the client in relations with other companies, and state and municipal institutions

LEGAL CONSULTING ABOUT REAL ESTATE TOPICS:

All your real estate operations in Latvia must be in accordance with related laws. Buying and selling real estates, solving conflicts, preparing related documents, details about heirship problems and similar topics are in the scope of laws under real estate law. We provide assistance for you so that your operations regarding real estates are in accordance with such laws and regulations. Our assistance details are as follows:

• >>> Development of contracts for real estate purchase/sale, rent, lease, management, exchange, donation, sharing, actual division, exploitation, according to the customer needs
• >>> Advice when selling or buying real estate
• >>> Arrangement of real estate ownership formalities
• >>> Division and merging of real estate
• >>> Succession issues in real estate matters
• >>> Assistance in real estate insurance
• >>> Preparation of mortgages and surety documents
• >>> Representation of the client’s interests in real estate matters in courts, arbitration courts and other institutions

CLIENT REPRESENTATION AND ARBITRATION IN COURTS:

Legal conflicts are resolved in courts. You need to be there in person or represented legally. Within the context of legal consulting, we represent you in courts when necessary and we protect your rights to the end. We want you to know that regarding conflicts in criminal, administration and general law fields, we have high level of expertise. You are represented in court or during arbitration by expert lawyers.

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