In August 2023, Guozun Law Firm’s Croatia office was successfully launched and put into operation. The office is located in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. As a key node in Guozun’s global legal service network layout in the Central and Eastern Europe region, it focuses on providing full-process, one-stop cross-border legal services for Chinese-funded enterprises going to Croatia and Croatian enterprises connecting with the Chinese market.
Guozun Croatia Office has deeply cultivated the local legal market and has formed a composite professional team proficient in Croatian local law, the EU legal system, and Chinese law. It possesses service capabilities covering all business fields, can directly connect with Croatian local judicial, regulatory, and commercial resources, efficiently resolve various legal needs in cross-border investment, trade, and operations, and provide clients with precise, compliant, and efficient legal solutions.
Core Business of Guozun Croatia Office
Corporate and M&A Legal Services
Providing full-process services for two-way China-Croatia investment, corporate mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and cooperation, company establishment, equity restructuring, corporate governance, due diligence, transaction structure design, closing implementation, and post-investment compliance management.
Competition Law and Compliance Business
Covering EU and Croatian antitrust, merger filing, anti-commercial bribery, regulatory compliance, industry compliance system establishment and rectification, and enterprise internal control risk prevention.
Banking and Financial Legal Services
Covering cross-border financing, project financing, private equity funds, financial leasing, asset securitization, financial institution compliance, financial dispute handling, debt restructuring, and non-performing asset disposal.
Real Estate and Construction Projects
Handling real estate transactions, leasing, mortgages, guarantees, construction project bidding and tendering, contract management, engineering claims, infrastructure project development, and full-cycle legal support for commercial real estate.
Intellectual Property and Data Protection
Providing application and rights protection for EU and Croatian trademarks, patents, and copyrights, intellectual property licensing, infringement litigation, data privacy protection, IT compliance, and digital asset compliance management.
Cross-Border Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
Acting in international commercial arbitration, cross-border litigation, mediation and settlement, and handling complex cross-border cases such as international trade disputes, investment disputes, contract breaches, and intellectual property infringement.
Energy and Infrastructure Investment
Providing full-cycle legal services for new energy, traditional energy, and large industrial projects, including investment development, compliance review, contract structuring, operation and maintenance, and project dispute handling.
Bankruptcy Restructuring and Crisis Management
Providing services for corporate bankruptcy liquidation, restructuring and reorganization, debt disposal, corporate crisis response, asset revitalization, and risk resolution.
International Trade and Customs Law
Handling the drafting of bilateral China-Croatia trade contracts, tariff compliance, response to trade barriers, import and export regulation, and legal protection for cross-border logistics and supply chains.
Labor and Human Resources Law
Covering cross-border employment, employee dispatch, labor disputes, social insurance compliance, layoff placement, employment risk prevention and control, and employee handbook drafting.
Immigration and Residence Planning
Providing Croatian residence permits, EU Blue Card, family reunification, naturalization consultation, and cross-border identity and business residence planning for corporate executives and business persons.
The establishment of Guozun Croatia Office is an important measure by Guozun in response to the Belt and Road Initiative and in serving China–Central and Eastern European countries cooperation. Centered on Zagreb, the office radiates to multiple Central and Eastern European countries such as Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro, breaks through the geographic and regulatory barriers of China-Croatia cross-border legal services, and provides solid legal protection for bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
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