Cechová & Partners — Slovakia
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About
The firm: Čechová & Partners is an independent Slovak law firm with a 35-year history. Since our establishment in 1990, we have been solving our clients’ legal issues in the areas of Slovak and European law. Our skills are reflected in our work and the satisfaction of our clients, as well as by our top ratings in numerous international and Slovak legal rankings every year. Our primary focus is on corporate clientele. Our clients include foreign companies (often multinational organisations and their subsidiaries), as well as large international law firms and local businesses. We are delighted that many of our clients return to us and have sought our advice on a regular basis for many years. With some of our clients, we cooperate almost on a daily basis. With others, we work on specific individual projects. Our attorneys speak many different languages – Slovak, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, Italian. Therefore, we are able to communicate with our clients better and also understand their requests from their perspective. This is part of our first value – Professionalism. We view our clients as our partners. We are able to bring together a comprehensive team of experts, enabling us to provide clients with advice on different types of agenda. Our second value is – Flexibility. We know that only having good knowledge of the law is no longer enough if we want to be among the best. We aim to identify and adapt to unique and changing requirements as rapidly as possible. And last, but not the least, our main value – Integrity. We value the trust that our clients place in us. We work in line with the principles of decency and honesty, which we put first in the relationship between our law firm and clients. In recognition of these values, we advocate the principles of the fight against corruption, and apply the principles of internal compliance. We encourage all of our employees to adopt the same approach. ### Areas of practice M&A transactions: M&A advice forms the core of the firm’s practice. Čechová & Partners regularly advises foreign investors, multinationals and local clients on a variety of M&A and restructuring matters. Competition and antitrust: the team acts on a broad range of competition matters including compliance issues, representing clients vis-à-vis the Slovak competition authority in antitrust investigations. Corporate and commercial: Čechová & Partners is regularly involved in a large number of corporate matters, as well as contract drafting and reviews, including the areas of commercial, financial and civil contracts. Labour and employment: the practice is one of the largest in Slovakia and provides full employment and labour law assistance including employment contracts, employment termination, damage actions, works councils, collective bargaining, anti-discrimination, employee data protection, health and safety at work, employee pensions, share plans and benefits. Banking and finance: The firm’s clients include banks, facility arrangers, foreign investors, security houses, financial institutions and insurance companies. Data protection and privacy: Čechová & Partners advises on standard data protection duties of controllers and processors, notifications and registrations, communication with the local authority, internal documentation, security of personal data, monitoring, cross-border transfers, binding corporate rules, privacy shield, and further aspects of the new GDPR. Real estate and construction: Čechová & Partners gained respectable experience in the field of real estate development, advising in significant real estate deals to major international clients, investors, private equity funds, developers, banks, other providers of financing, property managers and other clients, dealing with all aspects of real estate transactions. Regulatory and compliance: regulatory assistance is a key area, in particular in the fields of pharmaceuticals, food, IT, privacy, consumer protection, product safety, energy, transportation, postal services and public procurement. The law firm is a leading team in life sciences matters, including promotion, reimbursement and clinical trials. Compliance reviews and forensic assistance are also of prominence. Dispute resolution: Čechová & Partners’ litigation team represents clients in various types of disputes at courts, arbitration tribunals and in administrative proceedings. Insolvency and restructurings: Čechová & Partners regularly advises its clients on insolvency and restructuring matters while Katarína Čechová, partner, is licensed as a bankruptcy and restructuring trustee. ### Languages - Slovak - English - French - German - Russian - Czech - Hungarian - Italian ### Memberships - Lex Mundi - World Services Group - IBA - AIJA - Slovak Bar Association - American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) - Camera di Commercio Italo - Slovacca ### Staffing Figures - 26 Number of lawyers
Office locations
Bratislava
Bratislava
Cechová & Partners Uniq Staromestská Staromestská 3 811 03 Bratislava Bratislava Slovakia 040 01 Košice Business Centre Košice ŠTúrova 27
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Katarína Čechová
Partner. During 40 years of continuous legal practice Katarína advised and represented clients in a wide range of transactions and legal cases, and has gained the most extensive experience and expertise in various areas of Slovak commercial laws, particularly in M&A work, reorganizations and restructurings, domestic and cross border mergers, corporate finance, and project financing. She is also a recognized expert in business dispute resolution and active as an arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations. · Corporate / M&A
Kristína Maschkanová
Attorney/Senior Associate. Kristína Maschkanová is an associated attorney at our law firm with 15 years of legal practice. She is primarily involved in corporate law, contract law, and intellectual property law. Kristína has experience in providing legal services to Slovak and foreign clients in company law, regularly participates in due diligence reviews. She advises clients on matters concerning mergers and acquisitions, as well. In addition, Kristína deals with intellectual property law and provides legal assistance in connection with information technology. She represents clients from various areas of business in court proceedings. As part of her dispute resolution agenda, she represented one of the leading insurance companies in Slovakia in several proceedings. · Corporate / M&A
Lenka Šubeníková
Lenka Šubeníková is a partner at Čechová & Partners and leads the firm's M&A practice and real estate practice. In real estate, she specializes in project developments, real estate acquisitions and sales, tenancy relations and construction law. In M&A, Lenka represents clients in cross-border as well as local transactions in a variety of business sectors and she also advises on joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and shareholder disputes. Lenka is also a key member of Čechová & Partners' employment practice, advising clients on employment issues in transactions, corporate reorganisations, and on all issues related to companies entering the Slovak market and starting operations in Slovakia, including creating and defining various processes and policies in the field of HR and day-to-day HR issues. Lenka also represents clients in collective bargaining with trade unions and advises on matters related to trade unions. · Corporate / M&A
Marek Holka
Partner. Marek primarily deals with competition law and pharmaceutical law. He is regularly involved in cases of control of concentrations. In the pharmaceutical industry, Marek regularly assists clients in reviewing their distribution models, preparation of contracts with wholesalers, pharmacies, healthcare professionals and other partners, in proceedings concerning reimbursement of medicinal products, review of advertising and educational materials, preparation of contract documentation for biomedical research and clinical trials, as well as in other activities in the area of pharmaceutical regulation and compliance. · Competition
Marek Varga
Attorney/Senior Associate. Marek Varga has worked for our law firm as an associate since 2019 and since 2022 as an attorney. He is primarily involved in corporate law, commercial law, insolvency law, and litigation. · Corporate / M&A
Michaela Jurková
Partner. Michaela Jurková is a partner in Čechová & Partners with more than 15 years of professional experience in corporate and contract law. In addition to the aforementioned legal areas, she is primarily involved in project financing and financial regulation at the present time. Michaela is the head of IP practice of the firm, responsible for providing legal services in the area of intellectual property rights, focusing on trademarks, Internet domain names and copyright (including software rights). In the areas of corporate and contract law, she advised clients on transfers of assets and businesses, acquisition and sale of shares and ownership interests in companies, and mergers of companies, including cross-border mergers. A significant part of her legal practice consists of advising clients on financial transactions both on the part of creditors and debtors, assessing, in particular, Slovak law aspects of facility agreements and related collateral to be provided by Slovak entities, including subsequent implementation of documentation. Michaela has advised many clients from the energy sector (electricity, gas, heat) on regulatory aspects of business in this sector and compliance with regulatory requirements, including the preparation of legal opinions on compliance of Slovak law with EU legislation. · Corporate / M&A
Michal Šimunič
Attorney. Michal advises various international clients having its subsidiary in Slovakia on corporate matters, regularly assists clients in various internal reorganisations and participates in due diligence reviews focusing mainly on corporate law aspects. In the area of real estate law he focuses on lease agenda and lease negotiations. He also regularly advises clients in matters related to bankruptcy and restructuring. · Corporate / M&A
Miroslav Zaťko
Partner · Corporate / M&A
Peter Fedor
Attorney / Senior Associate. Peter Fedor started to work in our law firm as an associate in 2016. After having successfully passed the bar exams, in May 2020 he expanded our team of attorneys. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic), where he received first-class honours and obtained his master’s degree in 2016. · Labour & Employment
Simona Haláková
Partner. Simona is a head of banking & finance regulatory practice and regularly assists to financial services clients active in the fields of banking, finance, trading with derivatives and securities, payment services, collective investment, insurance & reinsurance, etc. Simona is instrumental in advising clients from energy and network industries sector, including areas of nuclear power sector and renewables and leads projects in the area of exploration and production of oil and gas. Simona has gained significant experience in the area of M&A while serving international and domestic undertakings active in banking, telecommunications, automotive industries, engineering, gambling and private equity sectors. Simona acts as a project leader in asset and business transfer projects and transactions, including corporate reorganizations, transfers of employees and outsourcing projects. Simona regularly advises clients on the various aspects of corporate and commercial law. · Banking & Finance
Tomáš Maretta
Managing Partner. Tomáš is an expert in the area of competition and antitrust law. During his twenty one years practice in the firm he has been involved in a number of transactions and was instrumental mainly in antitrust and merger control advice. He successfully assisted to a number of international and domestic undertakings being active mainly in pharmaceutical, chemical, automotive, energy and manufacturing industries, engineering, banking and private equity sectors in connection with local merger clearances. Tomáš has been also providing diverse advice with respect to cartel agreements, bid rigging in public procurement, vertical practices, dominance issues and abusive practices and has been representing clients in cartel proceedings at the AMO and courts. He also advised clients on the various aspects of claims for damages under Slovak law. During his practice, Tomáš also gained significant experience in the area of corporate, M&A and commercial law. · Competition & Antitrust
Tomáš Rybár
Partner. Tomáš is active primarily in the fields of employment, pharmaceuticals, corporate and M&A and privacy. He is a leading life sciences lawyer, serving a large portion of innovative pharmaceutical companies active in Slovakia. He is the head of labour & employment practice of the firm, working on a wide range of employment, data protection and privacy matters. His professional area includes M&A, compliance and real estate. · Employment