Notaries
The activities of a notary are fundamentally different from those of a lawyer. While a lawyer represents particular interests – those of his client – a notary is more neutral. As independent holders of a public office, notaries record legal transactions and take care of other tasks in the precautionary administration of justice. They are to try and find adequate solutions which balance the parties’ interests.
As notaries we regard ourselves as modern service providers who formulate contracts in the best interests of the parties. We closely cooperate with other advisers such as lawyers and tax consultants. In the rare cases in which we do not draft our documents ourselves we closely examine standard contracts and other documents. If we believe that certain issues might be handled better or differently, we make proposals to that effect.
The focus of our notary work is on corporate law, real-estate law and succession and family law.
- In corporate law, preparing corporate agreements, partnership agreements and decisions, taking notes of partner meetings, supporting company transformations such as mergers, spin-offs and changes in the legal form, preparing and implementing corporate transactions (asset or share deals) and drafting and certifying commercial register entries are only some of our services.
- In real-estate law, we work mainly on formulating, certifying and implementing property transfers, creating charges on properties, usufructuary rights, easements, preferential purchase rights etc, establishing residential or partial ownership and creating hereditary building rights.
- In family and succession law notaries usually act as advisers on the structure of private assets, on succession and on corporate succession. In particular, they draft and certify marriage and partnership contracts, separation and divorce agreements, testaments and succession contracts, donations and agreements on early succession.
Since we act not only at the national, but also at the international level, we will of course draft and certify contracts and other documents in English, too.