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Legal transactions in the Republic of Croatia are increasingly common in the purchase of existing companies that participate in the market of the Republic of Croatia. Purchases of existing companies take place in relation to trading companies in various economic activities. When buying existing companies that perform a certain activity, i.e. taking over these companies, it is necessary to prepare appropriate legal due diligence, which will establish that the company is legally eligible for takeover.

When buying real estate in the Republic of Croatia, it is very important to ensure the legal security of the buyer in each individual transaction, that is, legal work aimed at buying real estate. The purchase of real estate in the Republic of Croatia is primarily regulated by the provisions of the Law on Property and Other Real Rights and provisions of the Law on Land Registers.

A large number of people inherit real estate from their legal ancestors in certain shares with third parties. As a rule, co-ownership of real estate by several co-owners often leads to the impossibility of agreement on the division of the real estate and/or the manner of its use.

A trading company can have one or more branches where it performs its activities.

A branch office is established by a decision made by the competent body of the company in accordance with the statement of incorporation of the company or the social contract, i.e. the company's statutes.

The company is the name under which the trading company operates and under which it participates in legal transactions.
The trading company's company must be clearly distinguished from the company of another trader based in the Republic of Croatia.

In legal transactions, contracting parties often decide to enter into a pre-contract for various reasons, such as the current lack of financial resources, for which it is necessary to obtain a loan from the bank, or mistrust of the long party due to the fear that the item will be sold to a third party who subsequently offers a higher price than it .

A real estate purchase agreement (also called a real estate purchase agreement) is in practice the most common legal basis for a derivative (derivative) way of acquiring real estate ownership rights, in which the ownership rights of the ancestor (seller) are transferred to the acquirer (buyer) based on a legal transaction - a contract of buying and selling.

In a large number of construction projects for the construction of residential buildings or detached buildings, houses, natural persons participate as investors. Natural persons participating as investors are increasingly foreign citizens, citizens of the European Union as well as citizens of other countries.

In misdemeanor and criminal proceedings in the Republic of Croatia, the parties to the proceedings are often foreign nationals, from the territory of the European Union as well as third countries.

Foreign citizens in criminal proceedings have the same rights and obligations as Croatian citizens, and which rights and obligations are regulated by the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act and the Criminal Code.

Foreign citizens, citizens of the EU, who own real estate in the Republic of Croatia have the right to obtain a permit to provide solutions for the provision of household accommodation services.

One of the entries in land registry law is the entry of a dispute. It is a frequently used institute with very significant legal effects, which you will learn more about by reading this article.

In the Republic of Croatia, foreign citizens can acquire real estate under special conditions prescribed by the Law on Property and Other Real Rights. In relation to the conditions for the acquisition of property rights set by the law in question, those set for the acquisition of real estate by foreigners who are not citizens of the EU member states differ from those set for the acquisition of real estate by foreigners who are citizens of the EU member states.

Each building, depending on its purpose, must be designed and built in such a way that during its lifetime it fulfills the basic requirements for the building and other requirements, i.e. conditions prescribed by the Law on Construction (Official Gazette 153/13, 20/17, 39/19, 125/ 19) and special regulations.

The fact that you entered into a contract for the purchase and sale of an apartment, paid the costs of signature verification and sales tax, and paid the purchase price does not mean that you have become the owner of the property. It is necessary to register the right of ownership first, and you become the owner of the property only after registration in the land register.

The gift contract is regulated in the Obligatory Relationships Act (Official Gazette 35/05, 41/08, 125/11, 78/15, 29/18, 126/21, 114/22, 156/22, 155/23) as a bilaterally binding contract that is created when the donor undertakes to leave a thing or property right to the donee without countermeasures, and the donee accepts it.

Setting up a limited liability company can be challenging, but with the right guidance, it can become quite simple. In this article, we will consider the key steps and essential information that are necessary for the successful establishment of a limited liability company in Croatia.

The measure of guarantee and the measure of pre-trial detention are inextricably linked, because the guarantee represents the realization of the principle of proportionality (Art. 95, paragraph 2), which obliges the court to abolish pre-trial detention and instead determine a milder measure as soon as the conditions exist that the same purpose can be achieved with such a measure.

Pre-trial detention is a measure to ensure the presence of the defendant in criminal proceedings, which represents the deprivation of an individual's freedom, and is mostly legally regulated in Chapter IX. of the Criminal Procedure Act (Official Gazette No. 152/2008, 76/2009, 80/2011, 91/2012, 143/2012, 56/2013, 145/2013, 152/2014, 70/2017, 126/2019, 126 /2019, 80/2022).

The European Arrest Warrant as an institute of international criminal legal assistance that replaced extradition within the European Union is also applied in the Republic of Croatia.

The partnership agreement is regulated by Article 637 of the Civil Obligations Act (Official Gazette “Narodne novine” nos. 35/05, 41/08, 78/15, 29/18), which reads: In a partnership agreement, two or more persons mutually commit themselves to invest their work and/or assets in order to achieve a common goal.

What is Clausula Intabulandi? Why is it needed and who issues it? In every purchase and sale or any other way of acquiring and transferring rights to real estate you come across the legal term Clausula Intabulandi, which represents one of the essential elements of many contracts.

Considering the high value of the subject matter of the contract, the participation of a large number of persons and the scope and complexity of the work itself, in practice a construction contract is an extremely complex legal transaction.

Protection of possession is possible in the event that a certain person wilfully interferes with another person’s possession, whether by disturbing them in their possession or by depriving them of their possession, ...

Act on Property and Other Real Rights (official gazette “Narodne novine” no. 91/96) sets out various ways of dissolving co-ownership over property, specifically the division of moveable property by physical division, of immovable property by geometric division, and it also sets out a civil division, dissolution by payment, dissolution on several things at the same time i.e. the so-called distribution by equivalents and dissolution by establishment of condominium ownership.

How to find out if the land is classified as building land is one of the most important questions you should ask yourself before buying the land on which you plan to build.

In order for the buyer to pay the purchase price as safely as possible, and the seller to hand over the property to them, it is necessary that they adhere to the established process of real property purchase and sale. Therefore, this article shall explain how exactly does the process of real property purchase and sale work.

An employment agreement, as a legal agreement which regulates the relations between the worker and the employer, may be terminated unilaterally, by mutual consent, or judicially. i.e., a unilateral, judicial and consensual termination of the employment agreement are possible, and this article shall explain them in more detail.

In accordance with the provisions of the Act on Ownership and Other Real Rights (official gazette of the Republic of Croatia ˝Narodne novine˝, No. 91/96, 73/00, 114/01, 79/06, 141/06, 146/08, 38/09, 153/09, 143/12, 152/14, 81/15,94/17) possession is acquired when the acquirer establishes his factual authority regarding things, e.g. entering into possession of real property, regardless of whether their factual authority is established by a unilateral act, which is known as the original acquisition of possession, or the factual authority was transferred to them, which is known as a derivative form of acquiring possession.

Protection of the dignity of workers is one of the fundamental rights of employment. If you have workplace issues, doubts or questions, do read this article which deals with the application for the protection of the dignity of workers.

The right of ownership is a real right on a particular property which authorises its holder to dispose of the thing and the benefits it entails as they see fit, and to exclude everyone else from such disposition, if that is not contrary to other people's rights or legal restrictions. The right of ownership means the right to own, use and dispose with one's thing.

Pursuant to the Companies Act (official gazette of the Republic of Croatia ˝Narodne novine˝, Nos. 111/93, 34/99, 121/99, 118/03, 146/08, 137/09, 152/11, 111/12, 68/13, 110/15, 40/19 ) one or more limited liability companies may be acquired by another limited liability company without carrying out the liquidation procedure by transferring the entire assets of one or more acquired companies to the acquiring company in exchange for shares in that company.  The purpose of this article shall be to explain the process of the acquisition of limited liability companies, as defined by the previously mentioned act.