Actively engaged in all areas of Business Law, Véronique Chodzko Legal Office provides advice and support to help make your legal strategy a key factor in keeping you ahead of the competition and strengthening your market position.

With expert knowledge of New Caledonian statutory compliance requirements coupled with our experience of International Law, Véronique Chodzko Legal Office provides advice and assistance in drafting contracts, deploying monitoring tools and identifying and excluding legal and regulatory risk in the implementation of your strategies and CSR approaches.

Reactivity

Integrity and transparency

Listening and empathy

Expertise

• Commercial and Business Law
• International Trade Law
• Contract Law
• Competition law
• Maritime and Transport Law
• New technologies Law
• Tax and Customs law applicable to

Corporate life of the company and CSR

 The Véronique Chodzko Legal Office assists companies form the time they are created, both for the day-to-day corporate monitoring and for specific transactions:

• Incorporation of companies, Associates’ Pacts,
• Delegations of authorities and responsibility,
• Legal protection of company assets,
• Mergers and Acquisitions,
• Assistance to Corporate Governance Strategy definition and CSR approaches
• Legal strategy,
• Assistance to Corporate crisis management and security.

Contractual practice 

Whether you are creating a business that your company is facing a new situation or intend to engage a project involving contractual relationships of varying complexity with others, locally or abroad, the choice of your agreements in your strategy and relevant approach, determines your success.

The Véronique Chodzko Legal Office assists and advises you in defining your contractual strategy as well as in the study, negotiation and drafting your agreements:

• General Terms and Conditions, set of contracts templates,
• Construction contracts: private works contracts, EPC/M contracts, sub-contracts, bank guarantees,
• Management of premises: leases, maintenance contracts.
• Local and international trade contracts: supply, distributorship agreements local and international purchases.
• Outsourcing and subcontracting transportation operations: land transport, maritime transport, port handling and equipment rental.

Legal assistance to foreign compagnies

The Véronique Chodzko Legal Office offers companies which are involved in feasibility studies, the design or the realization of their project, in New-Caledonia or abroad, a complementary support for:

• Due diligence, regulator audits,
• Legal risk surveys,
• Contract and Corporate Engineering,
• Assistance in negotiating and obtaining administrative approvals.

About Veronique Chodzko

Véronique Chodzko is a self-employed lawyer specialised in Corporate and business law. She has more than fifteen years’ experience in New Caledonia and worldwide.

Veronica worked as a corporate lawyer specialising in maritime and transport law for a major shipping and stevedoring group based in Noumea, New Caledonia, where she acquired extensive knowledge and experience in the areas of damage and litigation management and maritime practice.

She went on to take up a position as legal department head and steering committee member with one of the three global mining companies operating in New Caledonia.

Working with her team of lawyers and consultants specialised in various areas of local and international law, she developed and implemented the legal tools necessary to ensure the successful outcome of a major mining project: governance, CSR and “good neighbour agreements” contracts and procurement, construction, mine operations, taxation

Véronique was then assigned to the company’s Australia-based project construction team, working with their Australian subsidiary, where she gained in-depth knowledge and experience of change management & international project management.

Véronique developed her international law expertise by completing an 18-month degree course in advanced management in Canada.

During a career which was both specialised and broadly diversified, Véronique had acquired expert experience in the field of corporate legal strategy and she took the decision to set up her own independent Legal Office in 2008, offering her services to corporate clients.

Since then, Véronique has acted as consultant of choice for local and international businesses operating in a variety of areas, particularly the mining and oil & gas industries. She provides services to a portfolio of key clients, including regular updates and reviews of changes in New Caledonian legislation and advice and support in the development of strategies and action plans.

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