Eastern Europe Desk

The recent years have put more and more focus on the eastern European countries for various reasons. Most actual one is the use of facilities in this area to stabilise the supply chain, but certainly also as markets to distribute products made in Germany. Last but not least there is great interest in acquiring real estate specifically for logistics projects or to set up new shopping malls.

GvW wants to meet this demand of its clients and has therefore built up a network with experienced colleagues in the individual Eastern European countries, which enables us to reliably advise our clients there as well.

We offer a comprehensive range of services here in order to support you in the realisation of your project together with our local colleagues and their knowledge of local conditions, taxes, subsidies, but also labour law. Some of these contact persons are based in Germany as European lawyers in their respective national law firms, so a very personal cooperation can be guaranteed.

We offer these services in the following countries:


Hungary


Czech Republic


Slovakia


Poland


Supply Chain

The past 2 years have led to a clear tendency to at least partially restructure the supply chains. Extensive dependence on supplies, especially from Asia, is to be avoided in the future. As a result, the Eastern European countries are clearly coming to the fore. They offer a high technical standard, excellent transport connections, significantly greater legal reliability than China, for example, and in many cases subsidies and grants that make such projects additionally economically interesting.

After all, our clients' expectations to this regard will be very different; from setting up their own companies to setting up joint ventures to the supply contract, ultimately also the logistical handling.

The following main areas of advice for supply chain projects are


Acquisition of companies (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland)


Formation of companies (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland)


Formation of joint ventures (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland)


Conclusion of supply contracts (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland)


Securing logistics (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland)


Of course, our colleagues and we also offer you continuous advice in the later stages of the daily work, if desired and necessary.

Distribution Agreements

The methods for distribution are vast and both we and our national partners are well acquainted with these different concepts.

Whether you want to install your own operation and even company in the respective country, including having some of your German employees move to the other country or to simply employ agents marketing your products, we can handle both from the national as well as the European prospective. Distribution certainly also includes the possibility for setting up a distributorship or even franchise.

For the distribution we do not just cover your legal needs in setting up these organizational and legal issues but can also handle the logistic background required to have your products on the spot where needed.

Even where the distribution is in combination with a research and development project, we are very much involved in these types of projects as well and can offer you the same quality of advice.

Here you find the country specific details of distribution agreements in


Hungary


Czech Republic


Slovakia


Poland


Acquisition of real estate

These types of transactions require an in-depth knowledge of both the legal requirements but also of the market standards. Here we believe we can offer something quite unique, as we combine the intense knowledge of your demands with the adequate knowledge of the local circumstances to be taken into account. Usually our clients are not just buying the piece of land but certainly already have the plan of building warehouses, production facilities or even shopping malls. All these different types of projects require specific knowledge and we can offer this type of service in the combination of a knowhow for the country of our client as well as of the country of the real estate. From the building permit to the financial backup we can assist in all the different aspects coming up with such transactions.

Details are provided for the individual countries on all the aspects.

Here you find the country specific details of acquisition of real estate in


Hungary


Czech Republic


Slovakia


Poland