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Corporate veil and its limits in the Czech Republic
Vorlíček, Antonín ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Pelikán, Robert (referee)
Corporate veil and its limits in the Czech Republic This thesis deals with the corporate veil of a company and related legal institutes. Moreover, the thesis interprets instruments that can lead to responsibility or liability of shareholders for the company's obligations. The thesis identifies three model situations related to the corporate veil and the question of its possible pierce that are recognized by foreign legal systems. The first chapter of the thesis focuses on the description of basic Czech legal institutes connected to the corporate veil, which are the concept of legal person and its legal personality, classification of legal persons and separate ownership of a company and a shareholder. The end of the first chapter is focused on a description of corporate veil itself and foreign doctrine of piercing the corporate veil. The second chapter of the thesis describes instruments of Czech company and civil law which may result in piercing the corporate veil between the shareholder and the company. Shareholder's statutory liability, cases of business groups (influence, controlling, and concern) and other theoretical institutes that are potentially able to conclude delict liability of a shareholder for obligations of the company: principles of fair act, and prohibition of apparent abuse of a...
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Duty of care, skill and dilligence in Czech court case law
Klusáková, Barbora ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Patěk, Daniel (referee)
1 Abstract The purpose of the diploma thesis "Duty of care, skill and dilligence in Czech court case law" is to analyze the case law of the Czech courts with regard to the legal regulation of the institution "duty of care" and to the opinions of the legal doctrine. The thesis consists of three main chapters. The first chapter deals with the theoretical and historical bases of the care of a proper manager, it encounters especially the issues of corporate governance and the Roman and Czech historical development of the term. The second chapter is focused on the current concept of proper managerial care and its partial aspects. The argumentation of the court with regard to the conclusions of the legal doctrine is analyzed and criticized in more detail. The last chapter presents the institute of the rule of business judgment, corrective standard of care. Its principles and conclusions of the court are examined in more detail. The analysis showed that the case-law conclusions of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic are applicable even after changes in the legal framework within the recodification of private law, albeit with minor exceptions. In particular, the case law of the Criminal Senate and some of its conclusions are criticized. Nevertheless, it can be summarized that we can rely on the interpretation...
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Business Corporation v. Trust Fund from a Creditor's Point of View
Kolenský, Lukáš ; Josková, Lucie (advisor) ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (referee)
Business Corporation v. Trust Fund from a Creditor's Point of View Abstract This diploma thesis deals with the analysis of the legislation regulating the functioning of limited companies and trust funds, specifically the issues of importance for the position of their external and residual creditors. The main goal of the thesis is to compare the mentioned entities and to gradually answer the question, which of them is more attractive for the creditor's position, and under what conditions respectively. The thesis is composed of a relatively shorter general part and of a main special part, together internally subdivided into eight partial articles. Regarding the applied methods, the thesis mainly uses analysis and comparison of domestic legal rules; the case law, mostly domestic, is quoted in order to present concrete manifestations of general rules in real instances. Following the definition of the subject of the thesis in its introduction, the general part firstly defines and examines, to the extent necessary, the concept of limited company, trust fund and the person of a creditor. In addition thereto, the thesis provides an explanation of the consequences of defects in legal acts. Special part of the thesis firstly concentrates on the issues of importance to the creditors arising in connection to the...
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Legal regulation of content of B2C contracts (from the perspective of consumer protection)
Opolzerová, Kristýna ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (referee)
1 Legal regulation of content of B2C contracts (from the perspective of consumer protection) Abstract This diploma thesis is dedicated to the legal regulation of the content of the consumer contract from the perspective of the consumer. In particular, the thesis is aimed at the adjustment of the unfair terms regulation which analyses profoundly. The transposition of the European regulation and possible shortcomings are evaluated. The thesis is divided into six main chapters, which develop the topic from general basics to the specific aspects of the consumer protection against unfair terms used by the entrepreneurs. The first chapter deals with the consumer protection in general, presents the main characteristics of consumer law and outlines the most important sources of legal regulation, including constitutional principles. The second part specifies the essential definitions related to the topic and used throughout the diploma thesis. The emphasis is given to the problems associated with the concepts of consumer contracts and entrepreneurs and consumers as contractual parties. The third chapter looks id detail into the subject of unfair terms when it comprehensively deals with the general definition of unfair clauses in the Unfair Terms Directive and the Civil Code. The emphasis is given to the each...
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Concurrence of membership in the governing body of a limited company and employment in the same company
Liška, Štěpán ; Čech, Petr (advisor) ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (referee)
Concurrence of membership in the governing body of a limited company and employment in the same company The purpose of this master thesis is to provide comprehensive answer to the question of the admissibility of the concurrence of the function of a member of the statutory body of a capital trading company and employment relationship with the same company (concurrence of functions), especially with regard to the change of legislation brought by the recodification of private law effective from 2014. With the concurrence of functions, it is necessary to distinguish between situations where the subject of the employment relationship are actions falling within the competence of the statutory body (identical concurrence) and when the subject of the employment relationship are other actions (non-identical concurrence). The question of the concurrence of functions is a frequently discussed topic. That is mainly for the reason that many companies have established relationships with members of their statutory body in this manner. The area of the concurrence of functions was in the past and still is insufficiently statutory regulated. Most of the rules in this area are, therefore, inferred by case-law. The thesis is divided into six chapters. In the first part of the thesis, the basic theoretical concepts...
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Pledge over business enterprise and its part
Zabadal, Michal ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Josková, Lucie (referee)
This thesis focuses on selected interpretation issues accompanying the particular stages of the existence of a pledge over a business enterprise. First, the thesis provides the basic definition of a business enterprise, with an emphasis on the characteristics relevant for the pledge purposes. In addition to the analysis of its legal definition, the thesis comes to defining the business enterprise as a special kind of a collective asset. The text further focuses on the moment the pledge over the business enterprise is created. It concludes that the pledge over the business enterprise itself, including each individual asset forming it, is created upon constitutive registration in the registry of pledges. The centrepiece of the analysis supporting this conclusion is represented by the concept of a business enterprise as a functional unit, which is dealt with as a such by the law, and not only in connection with the creation of a pledge. The next part of the thesis addresses the consequences of this mode of creation of a pledge for the protection of the good faith of third parties. It comes to the conclusion that, if a third party acquires a right in rem to a particular asset forming the pledged business enterprise, in good faith in the absence of its encumbrance, where the pledge over the business...
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Advance payments of the share in the profit of limited companies
Bastlová, Michaela ; Čech, Petr (advisor) ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (referee)
Advance Payments of the Share in the Profit of Limited Companies Abstract This thesis deals with advance payments of the share in the profit concerning the limited companies. Its aim is to analyse in more detail this for practice relatively new legal institute, to deal with its relatively brief regulation in the Business Corporations Act, and to offer possible solutions to some still doctrinally unfinished issues. It also attempts to outline the wider context of the current legislation of advances of the share in the profit, especially their historical development, relevant European law and also some foreign legal regulations. The amendment to the Business Corporation Act, which is currently under consideration, is reflected as well. The thesis is divided into four main parts. The first part defines conceptually advances in civil law and advances of the share in the profit. The regulation of advances of the share in the profit and its historical development is introduced, and the possibilities of using this institute are listed. In the second part, the particular conditions for the paying of advances of the share in the profit are analysed in detail. Among other things, the issue of time applicability of the interim financial statements is also examined, together with its possible replacement by an ordinary...
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(Non-)transferability of shares in business corporations
Coufal, Ondřej ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Josková, Lucie (referee)
(Non-)transferability of shares in business corporations Abstract This diploma thesis deals with (non-)transferability of shares in unlimited partnership, limited partnership, limited-liability company and joint-stock company. A share represents participation of a shareholder in business corporation. Each form of business corporation has a different modification of share transferability in the Business Corporation Act. Transfer of share is either prohibited, limited or allowed without any limitation. The rules on transferability also differ as to whether shareholders may deviate from them or not. The differences are mainly due to the personal or capital nature of the business corporation. The aim of this work is to determine the reasons which led the legislature to current transferability of shares in business corporations and to assess whether this legislation an appropriate solution is. The diploma thesis is structured into five parts. The first part deals with the theoretical introduction and defines a share and business corporations. The second and third part of the diploma thesis provides a detailed analysis of the transferability of the share in business companies, including the explanatory uncertainties and discussions that the current legislation raises. Part of the second part is also the...
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Relevant markets in the energy sector (in decision-making practice of the Office for the Protection of Competition)
Kujaníková, Tereza ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Horáček, Tomáš (referee)
Relevant markets in the energy sector (in decision-making practice of the Office for the Protection of Competition) Abstract The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the issue of relevant markets delineation in energy sector. More precisely, to determine which relevant markets have been identified in this sector by the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition, eventually by the European Commission. The reason for my research derives from absence of any comprehensive study dealing with the subject matter, despite its essential importance both for competitors and competition itself. To identify relevant markets is a prerequisite for ruling competition cases by antimonopoly authorities (while assessing concentration of undertakings, abuse of a dominant position or anticompetitive agreements). The thesis is composed of three parts, each of them dealing with different aspects of relevant markets delineation. Part One is introductory and defines scope and basic terminology used in the thesis: competition, competitors and energy. Part Two examines more closely methodology of identifying relevant markets. This part consists of five chapters. Chapter One focuses on relevant market definition and its importance. Chapters Two to Four deal with different perspectives of its delineation, i.e. product, geographic and...
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Contract to transfer share in limited liability company
Bujgl, David ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Čech, Petr (referee)
Contract to transfer share in limited liability company Summary Purpose of this diploma thesis is to draw attention to selected aspects of a contract to transfer a share in a limited liability company and to outline possible solutions to several interpretation issues arising out of the Act on Business Corporations. In the first chapter the author describes a change introduced by the Act on Business Corporations that allows creation of different types of shares in a limited liability company. Different rights and obligations may be connected with such shares. The author focuses on the division and description of selected rights and obligations and their impact on the content of the contract to transfer a share in a limited liability company. In the second chapter the author describes the contract to transfer a share in a limited liability company from the parties' point of view and their motivation to enter into such contract. The author of this thesis also compares the contract to transfer a share in a limited liability company with the acquisition of the company's assets and focuses on their practical advantages and disadvatanges. Furthermore, the second chapter outlines possible contract types that may be used for transfers of a share in a limited liability company. The third chapters deals mainly with...
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