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Havel, Holásek & Partners s.r.o.

PRIEVOZSKÁ 4/A, APOLLO BUSINESS CENTER II., 821 09 BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA
Prague, Ostava, Brno, Bratislava

What we say about the firm's legal practice in Slovakia

Banking, finance and capital markets

Within Banking, finance and capital markets ,

Hamala Kluch Víglaský s.r.o. advises lenders on cross-border or international law transactions. It recently acted for Tatra banka on €160m financing provided to energy monopoly Slovenské elektrárne. It also represented ZTC Energy as borrower in eight bilateral credit financing facilities provided by three banks to finance the development of solar parks. Peter Víglaský heads the team. Jozef Semancín joined Havel, Holásek & Partners s.r.o.

Corporate and commercial, including M&A

Within Corporate and commercial, including M&A,

Squire Sanders s.r.o advises on cross-border and domestic transactions, and Tesco is a key client of the practice. The group is also advising SkyToll in a public tender for the Slovak electronic tolling system including advice on financing and sub-system contractors. Managing partner Julian Juhasz is the key contact for pure corporate work with Tatiana Prokopová leading on corporate real estate. Adrian Barger and Roman Prekop left the partnership to establish their own firm, Barger Prekop s.r.o., and Peter Šuba joined Havel, Holásek & Partners s.r.o..


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    It is a frequent and widespread misperception that private joint stock company that issued registered documentary shares (listinné akcie na meno) does not need to have any contact at all with the Slovak public authority in the area of securities, Central Securities Depository of the Slovak Republic ("CSD").
  • PITFALLS OF SQUEEZE OUT IN SLOVAKIA

    The right of squeeze out is the right of a majority shareholder in the joint stock company whose shares have been traded on regulated market to require from all the remaining (minority) shareholders to sell him their shares at a fair price.
  • NEW APPROACH TO MERGER CONTROL IN SLOVAKIA

    On January 1, 2012 the Act No. 387/2011 Coll. amending the Act No. 136/2001 Coll. on Protection of Economic Competition (the „Amendment“), entered into force.
  • SLOVAK INSOLVENCY CODE AMENDMENT: CHANGES TO THE TEST OF OVER-INDEBTEDNESS AND...

    NEW LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS
  • Slovak Labour Code: amendments effective since September 2011

    One of the responses of the Slovak government to the financial and economic crisis is the latest amendment of the Labour Code. Its declared aims is, inter alia, to (i) reduce employers' costs, mainly in relation to the redundancy payments, (ii) introduce more flexible employment relationships (iii) enable more tailor-made solutions for the respective employer and (iv) weaken the position of trade unions by allowing also works councils and works trustees to negotiate and conclude plant-level agreements with the similar content and effect as that of collective agreements; this goes hand in hand with the change of basic concept of these agreements as they are now allowed to introduce also some less advantageous employment conditions than minimums referred to under the law.
  • PPP in Slovakia: First Success Revealed the Weaknesses of Legal Framework

    The successful financial close of first major PPP project in Slovakia related to construction and operation of R1 expressway should be without any doubt regarded as important milestone in facilitating of partnership between the public and private sector in the Central and Eastern European region. This article briefly outlines legal regulation of PPP in the Slovak Republic and recent developments in Slovak law aiming to provide additional comfort for financing parties interested in partnership with public sector through PPP projects as well as certain outstanding legal issues which investors should take into account when considering their participation in such projects.
  • Legal Obstacles to Real Estate Investment in Slovakia

    Are you considering real estate investment in Slovakia? This article should provide you with a review of risks and fundamentals concerning the acquisition of real estate property in the Slovak Republic.