Educational and cultural institutions

We provide practical expertise in the review of institutional licenses, the organization of specific training courses, as well as the handling of legal issues arising from institutional transformation, mergers, reorganization and changes to legal form. Our services also cover legal tasks related to the establishment and operation of private higher education institutions.

We have expertise in the regulatory practices of such institutions, the task in relation to public procurements, and also the identification of the applicable sectoral asset management requirements. We also provide legal services related to certain investment projects, like drafting contracts of designing, engineering and construction works, and handling legal issues arising from the applied public procurement processes.

We provide practical advice to institution owned companies to increase their operational efficiency and establish the required level of control mechanisms of their owners. We have expertise in handling company law issues related to the transformation of institutional companies and the development of their applicable inner regulatory practices as well. We also provide legal services concerning procurement procedures and labor law issues of institutional companies.

We provide legal advice and representation in litigation for lecturers, researchers, professors and executive staff employed by higher education institutions concerning employment contracts and the related liability issues. We provide practical expertise in employer succession and collective redundancies, as well as in preventing and managing labor conflicts arising from reorganization and outsourcing. We support our clients’ HR departments in the complex management of legal issues arising from employee qualifications, performance appraisals and benefits, and represent them in litigation.

We offer legal advice regarding student and pre-student status and legal representation in litigation in specific related matters, such as classification or reclassification of students to either full or partially scholarship-based courses or self-financed courses, the calculation or recognition of higher educational credits, and also examining the prerequisites for obtaining a final certificate and degree. We also provide legal advice and legal representation in litigation arising from certain decisions – or the absence thereof – adopted by institutions affecting students, such as disciplinary procedures or the single-acted termination of student status.

Concerning student labor, we assist in drafting and commenting on student employment contracts, and in handling legal questions regarding student employment agencies and their contractual relations.

We provide expertise in the practical application of the legal requirements for adult education institutions, the development of the appropriate legal and organizational structure, and their specific operational issues, such as the authorization and registration of such institutions. We also support the establishment of their required contractual frame, like adult training contracts and grant schemes.

We provide legal advice on data protection regarding higher education and adult education institutions, such as identifying the specific applicable data protection requirements, and we also carry out data protection compliance assessments according to GDPR regulations.

Our services include legal advice on establishment and operation of museums, theaters and other cultural institutions, specifically on the field of internal regulation, asset management and labor law We also provide legal support for event organization and ticket sale systems, copyright services for performing arts organizations, authors and holders of other related rights, as well as data protection compliance and data protection officer services.