Project implementation and financial settlement – legal support

The firm supports businesses planning changes to project implementation, responding to enquiries from funding institutions or requiring a review of documentation before submission. Our starting point is an assessment of the obligations arising from the grant agreement, funding application and programme documentation. On this basis, we determine whether the proposed actions are permissible, their implications for funding and the procedures that must be followed.
When changes to the project timetable, budget or scope of work are proposed, we assess their impact on project indicators, deadlines and the funding recipient’s other obligations. We prepare requests for approval of changes, justifications for amendments to grant agreements and responses to enquiries from funding institutions. In matters concerning financial settlement, we assess expenditure eligibility requirements and documentation confirming the completion of project tasks, and assist in preparing explanations relating to payment applications and reports.

In R&D projects, a key area of legal advice concerns the implementation and commercialisation of project results. We assess obligations relating to the commercial exploitation of those results, the deadlines for fulfilling those obligations and the documentation required to demonstrate that project indicators have been achieved. We also examine the implications of planned transactions, changes in ownership and transfers of rights to technology in light of the conditions attached to the funding awarded.
Working with AK-LAW may involve ongoing consultations with management boards and project teams, assessing specific decisions or preparing documentation and formal submissions to funding institutions. We tailor the scope of our legal advice to the stage of project implementation and the obligations for which the business is responsible.