Dentons Rattagan Arocena — Slovakia

Dalimir Alen Gondek

Alen Gondek is an associate and a member of the Real Estate practice group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses his practice on real estate law, corporate and commercial law. He has experience with legal due diligence procedures in connection with acquisition of Slovak real estate or an equity interest in Slovak companies, together with the review and preparation of relevant documentation related to real estate projects and various acquisition transactions. · Real Estate

Drahomír Široký

Drahomír Široký is a senior associate in Dentons’ Bratislava office. In his practice, he specializes in M&A, corporate and real estate matters. He has been involved in several cross-border and domestic M&A transactions in various sectors and industries. He has extensive experience in leading and managing due diligence teams and in negotiating transaction documents for both buyers and sellers. Drahomír also advises clients on real estate transactions, including sales and purchases of properties, real estate due diligence and commercial lease negotiations. · M&A

Dávid Stanek

Dávid Stanek is an associate and a member of the Finance Practice Group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses his practice primarily on banking and finance transactions and certain corporate matters. David has gained extensive experience while working on projects related to M&A and corporate law issues, financings and banking, and capital markets related matters, and several due diligence reviews. · Banking & Finance

Erik Kožúrik

Erik Kožúrik is a junior associate and a member of the Corporate practice group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. Erik primarily focuses on complex corporate matters, domestic and cross-border M&A deals across various sectors, private equity transactions, joint ventures and restructurings. He also brings particular experience in trust funds and corporate finance. · Corporate / M&A

Juraj Gyárfáš

Juraj is a partner in Dentons' Bratislava office. He specializes in M&A, dispute resolution and competition law. He has advised sellers and buyers on numerous high-profile M&A deals in Slovakia and the wider CEE region, as well as on post-M&A disputes and related competition matters. Juraj is the author of the first comprehensive book on M&A in Slovakia and lectures on the topic at the Law School of the Comenius University and at seminars of the Slovak Bar Association. He also published the first commentary on the Slovak Arbitration Act and authored many articles on various topics of Slovak and EU Law. Since 2015 he has been a member of the Committee for the Recodification of Private Law and the Civil Code at the Slovak Ministry of Justice. · Corporate / M&A

Ján Dulovič

Ján Dulovič is a senior associate and a member of the Corporate practice group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses his practice on corporate, competition and regulatory law. · Corporate / M&A

Katarína Pecnová

Katarína Pecnová is a managing counsel in Dentons' Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on civil & corporate law including commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, environmental and competition for clients from different types of industries, inclusive automotive, retail, energy in connection with their business activities in the Slovak Republic · Corporate / M&A

Katarína Slezáková

Katarína Slezáková is a senior associate and a member of the Banking and Finance group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. In her practice, she focuses on banking and finance transactions including corporate lending, acquisition, real estate, development and project finance, issuance of bonds as well as M&A transactions mostly in the real estate sector. She has experience in competition law in the fields of banking, telecommunication and retail. Katarína has represented clients in civil and commercial litigations including representation before the constitutional court. · Banking & Finance

Kristína Kresťanková

Kristína Kresťanková is a junior associate and a member of the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Criminal law Practice in Dentons Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on dispute resolution, criminal law and constitutional law. Kristína has experience with representing clients in various fields of litigation and with representing clients before the Constitutional Court. In addition, she has experience with providing legal assistance to clients in relation to competition law, life sciences law and insolvency law. · Litigation

Magdaléna Karvaiová

Magdaléna Karvaiová is an associate and a member of the Corporate practice group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. In her legal practice, she mainly focuses on commercial law and corporate law. She has experience in providing legal advice to clients in relation to the implementation of different regulatory obligations including anti-money laundering, personal data protection and consumer protection. Her experience also includes advising clients on litigation and intellectual property law. · Corporate / M&A

Martin Mendel

Martin Mendel is a managing counsel in Dentons’ Bratislava office and a Co-Head of the Real Estate practice in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses his practice on real estate law, commercial law and also works on commercial litigation. Martin has extensive experience in real estate transactions, mainly assisting clients with (i) negotiating preliminary/non-binding documents, (ii) preparing legal due diligence reports, (iii) drafting and negotiating transaction documents and (iv) completing post-closing matters. He also provides legal advice to companies from various types of industries in connection with their business activities in the Slovak Republic, in particular in connection with the protection of their rights in administrative and court proceedings (including preliminary court protection), as well as in arbitration proceedings. Martin has worked as a lead lawyer on several real estate transactions in the Slovak Republic. He is an active speaker at conferences, primarily focusing on real estate issues. · Real Estate

Michal Distler

Michal Distler is a junior associate and a member of the Corporate practice group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses on corporate law. Michal also has experience in providing legal advice to clients in relation to litigation. · Corporate / M&A

Miroslava Jaššová

Miroslava Jaššová is a counsel and a member of the Dispute Resolution Practice and Real Estate Practice Groups in Dentons’ Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on dispute resolution, criminal law, public procurement and real estate law. · Dispute Resolution

Natália Hangáčová

Natália is a senior associate and a member of the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Criminal law Practice in Dentons’ Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on dispute resolution and criminal law. · Litigation

Nikola Salvová

Nikola Salvová is a junior associate and member of the Corporate Practice Group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. Her practice focuses primarily on employment law. Nikola provides clients with daily support on numerous corporate and employment law issues inclusive whistleblowing and court proceedings as well as processes related to the reorganization or dismissal of employees. · Employment Law

Nina Drgalová

Nina Drgalová is an associate and a member of the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Criminal law Practice in Dentons Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on dispute resolution, criminal law and constitutional law. She has experience with representing clients in various fields of litigation (medical malpractice claims, ownership disputes, contractual disputes), representing clients before the Constitutional Court and administrative authorities. · Litigation

Norbert Vizvári

Norbert Vizvári is a junior associate in Dentons´ Bratislava office and a member of the Real Estate practice group. He focuses his legal practice on real estate law, corporate law and public procurement law. He has experience with day-to-day legal assistance to both foreign and local clients, legal due diligence procedures and preparation of contractual documentation related to real estate projects and various acquisition transactions. · Real Estate

Patricia Dutková

Patrícia Dutková is an associate in Dentons’ Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on the life sciences and pharma industry. She has extensive experience in drug policy and the related legislative process including European legislation, especially in the area of reimbursement and pricing regulation of medicinal products. · Life Sciences

Patricia Gossányiová

Patricia Gossányiová is a partner and a Head of the Banking & Finance Practice Group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. Patricia has over 20 years of experience in advising on a wide range of financing issues. She focuses on syndicated lending transactions, debt instruments (including covered bonds), debt restructuring (both court and out-of-court), private equity (funds) and derivatives/treasury transactions. She also has a strong track record in financial market regulatory matters, including advising on mergers of financial institutions (first in 1998) and the first ever EU-passported Slovak branch of an EU bank (2005). She also co-drafted the Slovak netting legislation (2004) and the first Slovak netting opinion for ISDA. Patricia has represented financial institutions in proceedings before the regulator and in litigations at court. · Banking & Finance

Peter Kubina

Peter Kubina is the Managing Partner of Dentons’ Bratislava office and Head of the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Criminal law Practice in Dentons’ Bratislava office. In his practice, he focuses on dispute resolution matters in various areas ranging from criminal law and civil, employment and commercial litigation to constitutional matters and strategic litigation, as well as performing the function of an arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations. Peter occasionally lectures at Comenius University on topics related to constitutional law. He speaks Slovak and English. Peter was the Adviser to the President of the Slovak Republic for Law, justice and matters of constitutional law . Currently, he is legal counsel to the President of the Slovak Republic in constitutional litigation proceedings before the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic and other formal legal proceedings before other justice and law enforcement bodies. · Litigation

Peter Panek

Peter Panek is a counsel in Dentons´ Bratislava office and a member of the Real Estate practice group. He focuses his legal practice on real estate law, corporate law and data protection law. He has experience with day-to-day legal assistance to both foreign and local clients, legal due diligence procedures and preparation of contractual documentation related to real estate projects and various acquisition transactions. · Real Estate

Petra Štrbová

Petra Štrbová is a counsel and a member of Banking and Finance practice in Dentons’ Bratislava office. She focuses on advising both lenders and borrowers on, acquisition financing, real estate financing, project financing and general corporate financing transactions. She regularly advises all major Slovak banks on syndicated and bilateral loan transactions. Petra also has considerable experience in real estate transactions, including acquisitions, leasing, development and asset management. In 2021, she was named one of the 100 most important women in the legal business in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. · Banking & Finance

Radoslav Pálka

Radoslav Pálka is a counsel in Dentons’ Bratislava office and a member of the Banking and Finance Practice Group. He focuses his legal practice on capital markets and financial regulatory matters and has a parallel fully-fledged track record in M&A and corporate advisory. He has experience with numerous high-profile debt issuances covering sovereigns, investment-grade and high-yield corporate bond issuances and covered bonds. This is further supplemented by in-depth experience in various financial regulatory matters and advisory concerning e.g. alternative investment funds and market abuse rules. The M&A and corporate experiences include various buy- and sell-side transactions, whereas the corporate advisory is focused on the matters internal and regulatory of various public and private corporations. · Capital Markets

Richard Marcinčin

Richard Marcinčin is a senior associate and a member of the Banking & Finance Group in Denton’s Bratislava office. His practice focuses on corporate law and banking and finance. Richard has been involved in numerous financing transactions representing both borrowers and lenders. Richard’s experience also covers legal due diligence procedures, the drafting of various memorandums and legal analysis, advising clients on commercial lease terminations, as well as representing clients before the civil courts. · Banking & Finance

Róbert Vícen

Róbert Vícen is a senior associate and a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in Dentons’ Bratislava office. Robert is a versatile lawyer with experience advising on financial regulatory matters (including banking, MiFID 2, PSD2, insurance, financial intermediation, the enforceability of collateral and netting arrangements, crypto-assets), capital markets (bond issues), consumer finance, litigation (including construction, trademark, and consumer litigation), PPP projects and ICT regulatory matters. · Litigation

Soňa Beňo (neé Kurillová)

Soňa Beňo is a senior associate and a member of the Corporate Practice Group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on commercial and corporate law and has experience with providing legal assistance to clients in relation to medical devices regulation, waste regulation, personal data protection law and public procurement law. Her experience also covers legal due diligence procedures regarding acquisition of Slovak real estate or equity interest in Slovak companies. · Corporate / M&A

Stanislav Ďurica

Stanislav Ďurica is a partner in Dentons’ Bratislava office. His practice focuses on employment, general corporate, litigation and arbitration matters, data protection, as well as intellectual property. Stanislav advises Slovak and foreign multinational companies on all areas of individual employment law, in particular hiring, restructuring, transactions, employee transfers, personnel adjustment measures, terminations of employment and related disputes, with a particular focus on issues related to top management. He also provides clients with commercial advice in litigations and arbitrations, including those with international aspects. He has participated in a number of the largest due diligence processes in Slovakia and has significant experience preparing and reviewing a wide variety of legal documents, analyses and legal opinions. Regarding industrial property law, Stanislav advises foreign multinational companies on all areas, especially trademarks, unfair competition, trade secrets, trade names and protection of legal entities. He further assists clients on questions relating to proceedings and disputes before Slovak state authorities or EU authorities and courts, in transactions, registrations, oppositions, cancellations, licenses and other matters with respect to IP law in Slovakia, including disputes and settlements regarding unfair competition and infringement of IP rights. · Employment

Tatiana Jevčáková

Tatiana Jevčáková is a senior associate in Dentons’ Bratislava office. Tatiana focuses her practice on corporate, commercial, employment and real estate law. Tatiana has significant experience providing day-to-day legal advice to both foreign and local clients performing their commercial activity in the Slovak Republic, as well as with legal due diligence procedures regarding acquisition of Slovak real estate or equity interest in Slovak companies. Tatiana is also active in the regulatory sector in line with specific clients’ needs including on waste, environmental burdens, food regulation and consumer protection matters. · Corporate / M&A

Tomáš Pavelka

Tomáš Pavelka is a counsel in Dentons’ Prague and Bratislava offices. He specializes in competition and antitrust, regulatory, dispute resolution, and EU law. Tomáš is experienced in advising on all aspects of Czech, Slovak and EU competition and antitrust law, including in the areas of merger control, abuse of dominance, cartel procedures, unfair competition cases, as well as state aid matters. He has particular expertise in the digital tech, platforms and other telecommunications, construction, transportation and energy sectors. Tomáš also represents clients in litigation and arbitration proceedings, especially in cases involving public law or regulatory elements. · Competition / Antitrust