Amendment to the Commercial Code 2018

Kindly let us briefly inform you on changes introduced by the latest amendment to the Commercial Code.

Main themes of the Amendment include:

1.            violation of trade secret: definition and procedural remedies

2.            restrictions and additional obligations applicable to mergers

3.            liability of controlling shareholders for bankruptcy of the company

4.            company’s own resources: capital funds

5.            other changes.

Most of these changes will come into force on 1 January 2018. Few exceptions became effective on the date of publishing the Amendment in the Collection of Laws, i.e. on 8 November 2017, or will become effective on 1 September 2018.

Updates on amendment to the Commercial Code are being prepared with the partnership law firm Bartošík Šváby.

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Amendments Commercial Code 2018