Hjulmand Kaptain

Mergers & Acquistions

Are you about to buy or sell a company? Or has the time come to transfer ownership under an estate planning procedure? If so, you should remember to keep the commercial overview and secure your business transfer by means of competent counselling on all legal and practical matters.

HjulmandKaptain advises Danish and foreign companies on all legal and practical matters in connection with mergers and acquisitions in Denmark and abroad. This applies, whether or not it is about a share purchase or a business transfer (i.e. assets/liabilities).

A merger or acquisition may pose several problems, if not handled professionally. Therefore, many things must be taken into account. For example, relevant information must be procured; the agreement must contain the warranties required for both the buyer and the seller; the tax affairs and the consequences of the transfer must be sufficiently examined; and in other respects, the transfer must be duly completed, in every way and respect.

This means, among other things, that a number of legal disciplines must be mastered, and not least is it important to keep the commercial overview to be able to complete securely any business transfer. HjulmandKaptain possesses the required expertise, conferring with in-house specialists within each specific subject area, whenever needed.

HjulmandKaptain is also highly experienced in the completion of legal due diligence, both when preparing a business sale and when completing the actual transfer of the business.

In our experience, a business transfer has the best chances of turning out successfully, if completed in close cooperation between the company, its management and owners and the advisers involved, particularly the attorney and the auditor.

For several years, HjulmandKaptain has been and still is currently involved in a huge number of mergers and acquisitions within many different lines of businesses. This means that HjulmandKaptain has wide experience in this area, making sure that the companies and their shareholders and owners receive the proper counselling.

In connection with mergers and acquisitions abroad, HjulmandKaptain is also capable of offering advice by means of its international cooperation partner, viz. International Jurists

Protect your company’s name, logo, invention or design against imitation

When developing a new product, an invention or a design, protection of intellectual property rights may be relevant.

An increasing number of companies are rightly focusing on intellectual property rights (IPR) as a natural consequence of a major development work. Only in so doing, can they prevent others from imitating or copying their ideas.

If you want to be sure that others do not imitate your company’s logo, name, design or invention, you should consider seeking legal protection.

HjulmandKaptain has many years of experience in counselling within intellectual property law, and we are always ready with assistance in your particular case.

There are different options of legal protection within IPR. Whether you need to register a trademark or a utility model or apply for design protection, copyright or a patent depends on what kind of protection you need.

What Danish acts apply to what products/creations?

• The Patents Act protects inventions
• The Utility Model Act protects technical creations
• The Trademark Act protects distinctive marks
• The Design Act protects the appearance of industrial products
• The Copyright Act protects artistic and literary works

HjulmandKaptain provides advice within all the above-mentioned areas concerning IPR, advising both businesses and private individuals on the many issues pertaining to intellectual property law.

Is protection of a product, logo or name relevant to you?

Intellectual property law is relevant to all types of businesses, regardless of size and trade, as the intention of the law is to protect you and your company against others exploiting your invention, identity or product.

Many companies experience that their intellectual property rights are being infringed because their design or patent is being imitated, copied or violated in other respects, and the only way to avoid this is by being at the leading edge and applying e.g. for patent or design protection.

Get a free IPR check

Instead of waiting to integrate intellectual property law until there is a serious problem or it is simply too late, you may request a free IPR check from HjulmandKaptain in order for your company’s basis of existence to be defined and protected. <View here for more information about our free IPR checks>

Legal counselling from specialists in IPR

Should you have any questions of how to protect your product, name, logo or invention, or if you need any advice due to infringement of your company’s intellectual rights, please do not hesitate to contact our specialists in IPR.

Debt Collection

How to obtain payment of your entitlements! HjulmandKaptain has the largest and most efficient debt collection sector in North Jutland - we ensure that you get your money.

HjulmandKaptain advises business owners and private individuals on how to collect or recover debts resulting from overdue invoices, mortgages, or other payments agreements. Two experienced debt collection lawyers and five secretaries are permanently attached to our debt collection sector, because we take debt collection seriously at HjulmandKaptain.

We are always updated on any new laws within debt collection, keeping our clients continuously informed by means of news letters and counselling, thereby ensuring that each of our clients obtains the best possible result in his or her specific case.

We conduct legal proceedings, preparing debt collection cases for hearing by the enforcement court.

HjulmandKaptain is certified with RKI Kredit Information A/S (Credit Information) as a link partner, thereby ensuring that those of our clients’ debtors having negative credit records are registered with the credit information agency.

Our debt collection lawyers have wide experience in conducting forced sales, primarily for mortgagees of real estate but also for those of our clients having levied execution against debtors’ real estate by means of enforcement proceedings. We prepare particulars of sale for the purpose of forced sales, and we ensure that our clients obtain the legal position and advice required in connection with forced sales.

If in need for a debt collection lawyer, please feel free to contact us on tel.: +45 7015 1000 or email to: [email protected].

Employment Law

How to obtain the best advice on employment law in order for you to take good care of your business and your employees - even if you have to dismiss them. HjulmandKaptain offers specialized counselling within employment law. Primarily, we act as advisers for companies, but we also assist executive officers, senior executives, salaried employees and other employees in both the private and public sectors in cases concerning the legal status of the individual employment relationship.

Employment law involves various legal disciplines. As a full-service law firm, we exchange knowledge interdisciplinary and may thereby professionally solve problems pertaining to employment law, bordering and overlapping other legal disciplines, such as company law, tax law, insolvency and corporate reconstruction, and mergers and acquisitions.

Advice may with advantage be sought abreast for the purpose of ensuring carefully prepared and individually adapted employment contracts, formulation of clauses and employment policy, etc.; however, our assistance comprises all questions before and during the employment as well as hand­ling of notices of termination and cases of summary dismissal. In excess to counselling, Hjulmand­Kaptain has prepared and conducted a large number of cases pertaining to employment law before the courts of law and arbitration tribunals.

Real Estate

When it comes to leasing, purchasing of real estate or call for tenders and invitation to submit tenders, there are many rules and pitfalls. It may often be necessary to team up with a lawyer having the right legal expertise and experience. Remember that your lawyer will take good care of you, when you deal in real estate - not many others do.

Please feel free to contact us, if you have any questions or need advice or guidance.

Insurance

HjulmandKaptain can assist with all kinds of questions in relation to insurance, both when taking out insurance and when estimating a damage.

Questions when taking out insurance:
Counselling on insurance matters forms a natural and necessary part of corporate counselling. At least once every year, all companies ought to review their insurance conditions for the purpose of ensuring that the coverage corresponds to the company’s risk.

Typical questions concern securing that the insurance sums are sufficient (which is particularly relevant for growing companies) and insurance of liability and transports.

The natural time for such review is when the company is preparing its annual report, but of course, the review may take place at any time that is most practical to the company.

HjulmandKaptain has no financial advantage in taking out insurance for companies and may therefore also advise on alternative methods instead of insurance for the purpose of mitigating the company’s risk.

To HjulmandKaptain, insurance consultancy is typically an integral part of consultancy on contracts, quality management and general terms and conditions.

Questions concerning damage:
In case of damage, HjulmandKaptain is prepared to assist the insured party in obtaining the compensation claimed under the insurance agreement, typically by participating in negotiations with the insurance company and examining written insurance offers.

HjulmandKaptain can also assist in referring cases to complaints board, in particular the Insurance Complaints Board (private cases) and the Labour Market Insurance (personal injury).

According to law, an insurance company shall cover all attorney’s fees and expenses reasonably incurred by the injured party in connection with the advancement and calculation of a claim against the insurance company. HjulmandKaptain can assist in calculating and collecting such amounts.

Criminal Law

HjulmandKaptain has a team of criminal lawyers offering legal assistance within all areas of Danish criminal law, e.g. offences of special acts, traffic offences, offences of transport regulations e.g. regarding driving periods and rest periods, tachograph offences, violations of the Danish Working Environment Act, and tax and VAT evasion.

We offer legal assistance to both private individuals and businesses.

Our specialists have many years of experience as defence counsels, appearing before the district courts daily and the high courts frequently. We continue to improve our qualifications for the purpose of being updated on the latest legislative changes and legal practice within criminal law.

Our defence is always focused, engaged, meticulous, competent, and efficient, thus ensuring our clients the best possible defence.

We represent our clients during all stages of the case - in inquiries as a suspect, in custody, and as charged during the trial.

Our specialists are often appointed as legal representatives with the task of protecting the victim’s interests to best effect.