Terms of Business
Business Clients
Last updated: 26 September 2026
These Terms of Business apply to professional services provided by Artlex Consult s.r.o. where they are incorporated into or referenced by an engagement letter, proposal, statement of work, order confirmation or other written engagement document. They are intended primarily for clients acting in the course of business or professional activity.
1. Contracting Provider
Unless an engagement document expressly identifies another provider, services governed by these Terms are supplied by:
Artlex Consult s.r.o.
Registered office: Kurzova 2222/16, Stodůlky, 155 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic
Company ID (IČO): 17286417
Registered in the Commercial Register maintained by the Municipal Court in Prague, Section C, File No. 369409
Email: info@artlexconsult.com
Artlex Consult s.r.o. operates under the LEX ARTA brand. LEX ARTA itself is not the contracting party.
2. Separate Providers
An enquiry or project may involve more than one service provider.
Depending on the scope, jurisdiction and regulatory requirements, Artlex Consult s.r.o. may introduce, refer or, where appropriate and lawful, transfer a prospective client or part of a matter to another independent provider. Artlex Consult s.r.o. may likewise receive introductions or referrals from other providers.
Unless expressly agreed otherwise: each provider enters into its own engagement for the services it supplies; each provider is responsible for its own professional work; fees payable to another provider are separate from fees payable to Artlex Consult s.r.o.; and no provider has authority to bind another provider merely because they cooperate on the same project or use a common commercial brand or project structure. A referral or transfer of an enquiry does not itself assign an existing Artlex engagement or transfer contractual responsibility to another provider.
A referral or introduction does not create a partnership, joint venture, agency, fiduciary relationship or joint liability between independent providers.
3. Acceptance of an Engagement
No engagement exists merely because an enquiry has been submitted, documents have been sent, a meeting has taken place, preliminary scope has been discussed, a quotation has been requested or Artlex Consult s.r.o. has been referred a prospective client by another provider.
An engagement begins only when Artlex Consult s.r.o. has accepted the matter in writing or otherwise clearly confirmed commencement under agreed commercial terms.
Artlex may carry out proportionate client-acceptance, conflict, sanctions or risk screening as part of its own risk-management processes. Where a separately engaged provider is legally required to carry out AML/KYC or other regulated onboarding, that provider is responsible for its own procedures.
4. Nature of Services
Artlex Consult s.r.o. provides regulatory, compliance, AML/CFT, financial-crime, data-protection, licensing-support, governance, risk, training and related advisory services within the agreed scope.
Artlex Consult s.r.o. is not a Czech law firm and does not undertake services reserved by applicable law to persons holding a professional licence which Artlex Consult s.r.o. does not hold.
Where reserved or locally regulated professional work is required, the client may be referred to or separately engage an appropriately authorised professional.
5. Excluded and Separately Provided Activities
Artlex Consult s.r.o.'s advisory engagement does not include company incorporation, provision of a registered office or accommodation address for another legal entity, nominee functions or other trust and company service provider activities.
Without limiting the above, Artlex Consult s.r.o. does not undertake as its own service under these Terms the incorporation of legal entities for clients, provision of a registered office or accommodation address for another legal entity, nominee shareholder or comparable nominee functions, or other trust and company service provider activities where these fall within a separately regulated or AML-obliged activity under applicable law.
Artlex may provide regulatory advice concerning corporate structures, licensing requirements, governance, market entry or the selection of an appropriate jurisdiction. This advisory work is distinct from actually carrying out a regulated corporate or TCSP service for the client.
Where implementation requires a local corporate services provider, trust and company service provider, advocate, notary or other regulated professional, Artlex may make an introduction or coordinate communications. For company incorporation, registered-office, nominee and other trust and company service provider activities, the relevant provider contracts directly with the client, carries out its own onboarding and AML/KYC procedures and remains responsible for its own service.
6. Scope and Deliverables
The agreed engagement document will specify, where applicable, the scope, assumptions, jurisdictions, deliverables, client responsibilities, timetable, professional fees, third-party dependencies and exclusions. Services outside the agreed scope require additional agreement.
7. Client Responsibilities
The Client must provide complete, accurate and timely information reasonably required for the engagement.
The Client remains responsible for business decisions, accuracy of information supplied, implementation decisions, filings or actions expressly allocated to the Client, obtaining approvals from its management or governing bodies and informing Artlex of relevant changes.
Artlex may rely on information supplied by the Client unless verification is expressly included in the scope or circumstances indicate that further clarification is necessary.
8. Regulatory and Licensing Matters
Artlex Consult s.r.o. may assist with regulatory analysis, readiness, applications, remediation and communications within the agreed scope. Final decisions remain with the relevant regulator, authority, bank, payment provider, registry or other third party.
No authorisation, licence, registration, account opening, regulator response or other external outcome is guaranteed.
9. Third-Party and Specialist Input
A project may require independent local counsel, tax advisers, auditors, cybersecurity professionals, technical consultants, translators, notaries or other specialists.
Where the Client contracts directly with such a provider, that provider is responsible for its own services.
Where Artlex procures a specialist as a subcontractor within its own agreed scope, the applicable engagement documentation will determine responsibility and commercial arrangements.
10. Fees and Expenses
Fees are specified in the relevant engagement document. Unless otherwise agreed, additional work outside scope may require a revised quotation, change order or separate engagement.
External costs and third-party expenses are payable where agreed or reasonably incurred within an approved project scope. Applicable taxes will be handled in accordance with the law applicable at the relevant time.
11. Payment
Invoices are payable within the period stated in the engagement documentation or invoice. Artlex may suspend work where an undisputed invoice remains overdue after reasonable notice.
12. Confidentiality
Artlex will treat non-public client information as confidential and will use it only for legitimate purposes connected with the engagement, professional administration, legal or regulatory obligations, risk and conflict management, establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, or another purpose authorised by the Client.
Confidentiality does not apply to information which is lawfully public, independently developed, already lawfully known or lawfully obtained from another source without an obligation of confidentiality. Disclosure may also be made where required by law, court order or competent authority.
13. Data Protection
Each party will comply with applicable data-protection law in the role it performs.
Artlex Consult s.r.o. generally acts as an independent controller in relation to client administration, communications, conflict and risk management, billing and its own legal obligations.
Where Artlex processes personal data solely on documented instructions of the Client as a processor, appropriate data-processing terms will be entered into where required.
Further information is contained in the Privacy Notice.
14. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise agreed, after payment of applicable fees the Client may use engagement-specific deliverables for the purpose for which they were prepared.
Artlex retains ownership of its pre-existing know-how, methodologies, templates, frameworks, generic materials, internal tools and reusable professional knowledge.
Deliverables prepared for a particular Client must not be relied upon by a third party without written agreement.
15. Reliance and Use
Advice and deliverables are prepared for the agreed purpose and on the basis of the facts, assumptions and law relevant to the engagement.
Unless expressly agreed, Artlex has no continuing obligation to update a completed deliverable because of later changes in law, guidance, facts or regulatory practice.
16. Conflicts and Professional Independence
Artlex may decline or cease an engagement where continuation would create a legal, regulatory, sanctions, conflict, professional-independence or material risk issue. Where reasonably possible, appropriate notice will be provided.
17. Limitation of Liability
Any engagement-specific limitation of liability will be stated in the relevant engagement document and will apply only to the extent permitted by mandatory law.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where such exclusion or limitation is prohibited by applicable law, including liability that cannot validly be excluded or limited under mandatory Czech law.
Artlex is not liable for the independent acts or omissions of a third-party provider contracted directly by the Client.
18. Termination
Either party may terminate an engagement in accordance with the relevant engagement document.
Artlex may also terminate or suspend services where continuation would be unlawful, professionally inappropriate, materially conflicted or prevented by the Client's material breach.
Accrued payment and confidentiality obligations survive termination as applicable.
19. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
Unless expressly agreed otherwise in the engagement document, engagements with Artlex Consult s.r.o. are governed by Czech law.
Disputes are subject to the jurisdiction of the competent courts of the Czech Republic unless mandatory applicable law requires otherwise.
20. Entire Engagement
The applicable engagement document together with these Terms constitutes the agreement for the relevant services. Where there is a conflict, the specific engagement document prevails over these general Terms.