Deloitte Legal s. r. o.

Firm overview : Skilled and experienced Deloitte Legal* practitioners work collaboratively with other Deloitte professionals in tax, consulting, risk and financial advisory to guide their clients through challenges in a coordinated way around the world. Deloitte Legal*, present in over 80 countries, is able to provide holistic guidance around strategic business decisions, as well as offer support services that can increase efficiency and reduce the cost of some routine legal activities. As part of the Deloitte organization (the global network of member firms and related entities), Deloitte Legal* helps clients in delivering multinational legal solutions that are consistent, technology-enabled, tailored, and sensitized.

Deloitte Legal* offers pioneering, yet pragmatic advice in many fields of national and international business law. Its professionals provide tailored solutions for demanding projects and complex domestic and international transactions. It offers multidisciplinary advice incorporating tax, consulting, risk, and financial advisory.

Whether family-owned smaller and medium-sized companies, listed stock corporations or international groups of companies—Deloitte Legal* covers the fields of business law that are important to our clients.

Deloitte Legal* understands legal advice not as an isolated component, but as a contribution to a comprehensive solution of the issues that companies face. Working with other Deloitte colleagues, Deloitte Legal* can help clients to make informed decisions in the context of legal as well as other business considerations.

* “Deloitte Legal” means the legal practices of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited member firm affiliates that provide legal services. For legal and regulatory reasons, not all member firms provide legal services.

Main areas of practice: Deloitte Legal organizes its market offerings around these key areas:

Commercial law: We provide legal advisory for clients from the commencement of business operations, the choice of the appropriate legal form of the company, the execution of any corporate changes within the lifecycle of the company, as well as assistance in the liquidation process and termination of business operations. We also advise our clients on the establishment of an effective system of corporate governance, risk management, management liability, regulatory compliance obligations, and with regard to the adaptation to all the legislative changes. Last but not least, we provide advisory in relation to the formation of joint ventures and the regulation of relationships between shareholders.

M&A: Our acquisition team is comprised of experts with in-depth experience in national and international transactions that always take into consideration client business needs and goals. We advise our clients on the structuring of an acquisition, strategic planning and legal due diligence. Our legal advisory includes the negotiation and preparation of the transaction documentation, as well as assistance with post-acquisition tasks. Through cooperation with experts from Deloitte’s other functions, we are able to provide a wide range of integrated services covering all aspects of the transaction.

Banking and finance : Our team provides complex legal advisory for a wide range of clients operating on the financial markets, including banks from the Slovak Republic as well as international banks, insurance companies, securities traders, financial brokers, and investment companies. Our Deloitte experts provide services in accordance with the latest trends and market developments in the banking and finance sector.

Real estate: Real estate transactions often involve a cross border element, complex structures and sophisticated financing mechanisms. Our real estate team provides full scope advisory in relation to real estate acquisition, financing, joint venture structures, sale, commercial lease, construction contracts, as well as comprehensive legal due diligence. Our expertise covers various aspects of the preparation, construction, and commercial use of development projects and built-to-suit projects.

Legal Management Consulting
Deloitte’s Legal Management Consulting (LMC) services were developed in collaboration with experts from across Deloitte practice areas such as mainstream management consultancy, risk advisory, tax management consulting, and, of course, legal. The services are configured to identify opportunities to help the General Counsel and the legal department as a whole achieve their desired state: Deloitte practitioners from numerous disciplines collaborate on a long-term roadmap to realize the client’s vision. They benchmark that roadmap with achievable goals, and work with the client from inception to completion.

Deloitte Legal’s LMC services includes assessing and developing legal operating models, evaluating and reconfiguring internal legal processes, developing frameworks for legal risk management, assisting with sourcing (balancing in-house resources with external third party providers), developing and deploying legal technology architecture, and facilitating tailored labs to develop solutions.

Legal Managed Services
Deloitte’s Legal Managed Services were developed to help legal departments keep up with the demands from their businesses for support on a range of legal issues. The legal professionals employ technology (such as dTrax – Deloitte’s award-winning contract management solution) and proven methodologies to act as an extension of a company’s in-house legal team, driving efficiencies through process improvement, and providing support and guidance to help enable their focus to shift to more strategic issues. Support is offered for e.g. Contract Lifecycle Management, Legal document review & management, Any outsourced legal related service, Legal regulatory mapping, etc.

Legal Advisory
Deloitte Legal advisors assist multinational organizations with day-to-day activities as well as corporate life events across many jurisdictions. Deloitte Legal’s professionals leverage leading technologies to deliver efficient and transparent support for the everyday legal activities companies manage.

Deloitte Legal practitioners understand that global organizations are enormously complex organisms, and no one unit is sealed off from the rest. The multi-disciplinary, tech-enabled legal approach allows Deloitte Legal to address legal questions not just in the abstract isolated way but with a holistic understanding of what the client organization is trying to achieve.

With a client-centric approach, Deloitte Legal practitioners expand their knowledge about their clients, the industries they operate in, their regulatory and legislative environments around the world to bring more to the table and provide the best possible legal advice to clients.

Guidance, advice and support are offered in the areas of:

• Corporate law
• Digital law
• Dispute resolution
• Employment law and benefits
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Regulatory and compliance
• Private clients legal services
• Real estate
• Banking & finance
• Commercial law