Legal services for automotive companies

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A dedicated team of lawyers of PwC Legal1, which specialises in working with automotive companies, supports the clients in resolving all legal issues they may have in their business operations, whether it involves incorporating, developing, restructuring or protecting a business.


We work with a wide range of companies in the automotive sector, including vehicle and cargo vehicle manufacturers, accessory equipment and spare parts vendors, assembly and sales companies, distributors, dealer networks, service companies, and financial subdivisions of automotive companies, as well as credit and insurance companies involved in the automotive industry.

How we can help

Legal support related to set-up & start-up
  • Comprehensive legal support for incorporating new manufacturing and/or trading companies in Russia and the CIS
  • Consulting on joint venture operations, including project structuring, procuring compliance with antimonopoly and other regulatory rules, joint venture set-up and its financing, exiting from investment projects
  • Legal support for investment projects, including selecting construction sites for vehicle and spare parts manufacturing facilities, preparing investment agreements, and representing a client company’s interests in negotiations with regional authorities
  • Conducting legal due diligence, including of construction sites for vehicle and spare parts manufacturing facilities
  • Legal support for projects related to conclusion and fulfillment of industrial assembly agreements
  • Legal support for plant construction, including project structuring, drafting agreements and other documents, and consulting on issues related to the importation and installation of industrial facilities and assembly lines
Legal support related to operational activities of companies
  • Legal support for organising, developing or restructuring various business relationships in the auto industry, including importation and supply of vehicles and components, interaction with logistics operators, insurance companies and dealers, warranty and post-warranty maintenance, marketing, and promotional programmes for dealers and consumers
  • Consulting on matters concerning real estate for the automotive industry, including organising production and warehousing facilities, creating training centres, and auto testing tracks and facilities
  • Consulting on antimonopoly issues, including analysing distribution and dealership agreements for compliance with antimonopoly rules, representing clients’ interests during antimonopoly audits, and settling disputes with the antimonopoly authorities both out of court and through litigation
  • Consulting on consumer law issues, as well as legislation on personal data protection
  • Consulting and comprehensive support on labour issues, including employment restructuring, staff reductions in force and layoffs, interacting with trade unions, performing legal due diligence of labour law compliance in auto sector companies, and assisting with settlement of labour disputes
  • Comprehensive support for protecting and using intellectual property in the auto business, including preparing new licence agreements and reviewing existing know-how transfer contracts, and structuring intragroup payments for intellectual property use
  • Consulting on environmental issues related to auto manufacturing operations

Our recent auto industry engagements

Projects related to set-up & start-up
  • Comprehensive legal support for a number of our clients (a large manufacturer of autocomponents and equipment, a large distributor of motor vehicles, etc.) with respect to structuring and establishing joint ventures with Russian partners, including preparation of all necessary agreements and other documentation
  • Representation of interests of one of the biggest car manufacturers during conclusion of the industry assembly agreement
  • Complex legal support for projects to incorporate and register the Russian subsidiaries of several major Japanese vehicle component manufacturers, including
  • consulting on developing an efficient corporate management structures, preparing Russian incorporation and registration documents, and supporting the registration process
Projects for operational activities
  • A leading Japanese vehicle manufacturer engaged us to consult on current operational issues in manufacturing activity, including warranty oblligations and consumer liability, etc,
  • Comprehensive legal support covering the full scope of legal issues related to the operations of a Russian subsidiary of a Japanese vehicle manufacturer, including legal structuring of business relations for the import and distribution of products, preparing foreign trade agreements and contracts with dealers, legal structuring of promotional programmes for dealers and consumers, and the company's advertising and marketing activities
  • Developing new distribution and development contracts, analysing existing agreements and service contracts for a number of automotive companies, including a major Japanese vehicle manufacturer and a British agricultural equipment manufacturer
  • Successful representation of interests of a leading foreign vehicle manufacturer in an audit conducted by the Russian antimonopoly authorities for compliance with antimonopoly rules
  • Complex consulting for several auto trading companies on protecting consumers’ personal data
  • Rendering legal support and consulting services to a leading global vehicle manufacturer on implementing a commercial secrets policy, including preparing all necessary documents
  • Consulting a number of international automotive companies on structuring of intra-group charges connected with the use of intellectual property and information technologies
  • A major foreign vehicle manufacturer engaged us to draft several licence agreements for the use of databases and software as a part of the group’s interaction with its dealer network

1Here and below, PwC Legal means "PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal CIS B.V."

 
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