Legal services

Since its inception, our office has profiled itself as an office with a strong emphasis on the area of contentious agenda, particularly focusing on commercial disputes related to out-of-court and judicial debt recovery. Our office has a particular expertise in disputes related to international freight road transport, where our clients have consistently experienced exceptionally high success rates. Additionally, we offer comprehensive management of receivables, including monitoring changes in debtors' ownership and asset structures.

An important area of our law firm's activity is legal advice related to the preparation, implementation and sale of development projects, especially residential and multifunctional buildings and complexes. Within the legal advisory services, we focus both on the preparation and commenting on transaction documentation related to the acquisition of building land or objects intended for the implementation of future projects (asset deals) or the acquisition of equity participation in companies implementing the construction of projects (share deals), as well as on complex advisory services related to the retail sale of completed projects, including the setting of the optimal transaction model and the preparation of all related documentation. During the time of our activity in this area, our law firm has already legally covered the implementation of several dozen smaller and larger development projects and therefore has an extremely rich experience.

One of the key areas of our firm's practice is land and agricultural law. The services of our law firm in this area can be described as unique due to the fact that we are able to provide our clients not only with standard legal advice concerning the normal operation of agricultural enterprises, but also with comprehensive management of the client's use relations to agricultural land. In this regard, our firm uses unique technical solutions (including special information technology software) and know-how, thanks to which we are able to provide agricultural enterprises with the updating and management of all legal titles to the land in their use, including the resolution of related land use disputes. Thus, in the specific conditions of general extreme fragmentation of ownership and use titles to agricultural land, our clients are able to gain a significant advantage over their competitors.

A specific area in which our law firm has been providing legal services on a large scale for a long time is the area of management and operation of large business and administrative centres. Our law firm provides legal advice to a number of well-known shopping centres located in various regions of Slovakia. In this area, we provide our clients with comprehensive services for contractual relations with a primary focus on lease relations for individual operations in the centre, as well as the management of the centres' receivables, including their out-of-court and judicial recovery.

Administrative law is another core focus of our firm. As specialists in administrative proceedings, we provide legal services across a wide range of matters, whether governed by the general procedural code (Administrative Procedure Code) or specific legislation for particular types of proceedings. Our expertise covers areas such as zoning and construction, cadastral matters, Water and Waste Act proceedings, as well as specialized cases like sublease arrangements for substitute land under the Agricultural Land Lease Act. We offer comprehensive representation, including the preparation of appeals and administrative actions to review the legality of decisions made by administrative authorities.

Our law firm is also intensively involved in the area of tax law with a particular focus on tax audits and related tax proceedings. In particular, we provide our clients with legal advice consisting in representing clients before the tax authorities, as well as in preparing and applying defences in the event of unjustified tax assessments or penalties. A specific type of legal services in this area is also the preparation of administrative actions and cassation complaints aimed at reviewing the legality of decisions of the tax administrator and the Financial Directorate of the Slovak Republic and representing clients in relevant court proceedings before administrative courts. Our clients enjoy a high success rate in these proceedings. We also provide our clients with expert opinions on the application of tax regulations in complex transaction models.

Since its inception, our firm has been deeply involved in company and insolvency law. We offer comprehensive legal advice on the establishment of new legal entities, particularly companies and cooperatives, and represent clients before relevant authorities throughout the processes of entity formation, organizational changes, legal transformations, and business terminations (including liquidation). We also monitor the legal status of our clients' debtors and, when insolvency proceedings are initiated, guide our clients through the process, ensuring their claims are filed and their creditor rights are fully exercised throughout the insolvency or restructuring until completion.

For our clients, we prepare customized GDPR documentation in accordance with the EU Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and Act No. 18/2018 Coll. on the protection of personal data as amended.

In the area of intellectual property law, we are primarily engaged in the preparation and review of contractual documentation in the area of copyright and copyright-related rights as well as in the area of industrial property rights or protection of trade secrets or know-how. We represent clients in trademark and utility model registration proceedings at the national level. A special area in which we have many years of experience is the area of domain law, including representation in domain disputes.

In the area of employment law, we provide comprehensive legal advice on drafting and review of employment contracts and agreements on work performed outside the employment relationship, or internal labour regulations. We particularly focus on legal advice in connection with termination of employment or collective redundancies. We also have extensive experience in legal representation of clients in employment disputes.