Our services.

In mergers and acquisitions (M&A), our firm focuses on providing legal advice on the purchase and sale of companies. Our advice accompanies the client through the entire transaction – from the initial planning stage and the negotiation of term sheets, through due diligence, to the closing of the transaction itself and post-acquisition integration.

Given our insolvency practice, we specialise in acquisitions of businesses in distress, known as Distressed M&A. These are exceptionally complex transactions in which an investor with free capital acquires endangered assets, so-called distressed assets. Acquiring assets from a business in bankruptcy or restructuring gives the investor a price advantage, but on the other hand it conceals legal risks. Contracts, hidden liabilities, unsettled employment relationships and the strict rules on realisation under the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Act require a special approach, and that is what we strive to deliver.

Finally, we set up the most suitable corporate structures immediately after the transaction is completed, ensuring the smooth operation of the acquired business (so-called corporate structuring).

Divorce proceedings and minor children.

We guide clients through the entire divorce process. We know that every divorce is unique – from those where the spouses are able to reach a reasonable agreement to highly contentious disputes. The foundation of our work in this area is the comprehensive arrangement of parental rights and responsibilities towards minor children. We advise on proposed models of personal care, including

We assist and represent clients in determining fair and appropriate maintenance that reflects not only the actual needs of the child but also the real and demonstrable income and financial circumstances of both parents.

Settlement of marital property.

The formal end of a marriage is usually followed by the most complex legal and economic phase: the comprehensive settlement and division of the property acquired so far under the regime of jointly owned marital property.

In practice, jointly owned marital property often concerns more than dividing a flat and a car; it involves extremely complex structures – the valuation of business shares acquired by one spouse during the marriage, the settlement of funds invested in shares, funds or cryptocurrencies, the division of business profits, the handling of joint mortgage and business loans, and the settlement of contributions and investments from one spouse’s separate property into the joint property.

In real estate, we provide our clients with legal services related to property transfers, complex lease relationships and large-scale construction. For clients carrying out development projects, we provide legal services from the very birth of the idea, the so-called greenfield stage.

We carry out comprehensive legal due diligence of land and acquisition titles (title search) and handle land consolidation and changes of land type. We guide developers through zoning proceedings, building permit proceedings and environmental impact assessment (EIA) proceedings.

We prepare works contracts with general construction contractors. Finally, after successful final building approval, we handle the sale or lease to end clients. We prepare transaction documents covering liens, easements, security transfers of rights and the escrow of the purchase price through notarial custody or bank escrow arrangements.

Tax audit: We represent clients from the moment a business receives notice of the commencement of a tax audit. A tax audit requires not only supporting accounting records but above all the strict protection of the audited entity’s procedural rights. We make sure officials do not exceed their statutory powers, prevent unlawful gathering of evidence, raise well-founded legal objections, take part in witness hearings and rigorously comment on tax audit reports.

Our goal is to dispel the tax administrator’s doubts before it issues a decision assessing additional tax, which may have devastating consequences for a company.

Where the financial administration issues an unlawful decision (e.g. denying the right to deduct value added tax on the grounds of the taxable person’s alleged involvement in a chain of transactions tainted by tax fraud), we pursue ordinary and extraordinary judicial remedies on behalf of our clients. We provide legal representation in proceedings before the administrative courts and the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic, in which we prepare and file qualified administrative actions and related procedural submissions in the context of the settled case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In this way we protect the property rights of taxable persons against unlawful interference by public authorities.

This practice is also closely integrated with our insolvency and transaction (M&A) work, in which we advise clients on the comprehensive identification and mitigation of tax risks in cooperation with tax advisors and auditors.