Kinstellar provide companies in an array of industries, including the automotive, manufacturing and TMT sectors in matters involving restructurings, terminations, and negotiations with trade unions. The firm benefit from collaboration with the white-collar crime department. The firm recently benefitted from the arrival of Pavol Rak, who heads the practice, supported by Roman Oleksik, who co-heads the white collar practice. Another key name is Matúš Kočíšek, who is noted by clients as being a ‘great advisor’.
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- Business understanding, real experience with legal situations.
- Competency, availability, and business understanding.
- ‘The team provides and proactive, client-oriented service tailored to fit the individual business-related aspects of the client. They provide not only raw legal analyses, but understand their client's needs and goals and engineer innovative, yet grounded and easily understandable solutions to complex legal issues, often in multiple variants.’
- ‘This is an extremely knowledgeable firm. They are responsive and know the needs of their clients.’
- ‘Matúš Kočíšek is the senior associate that my organisation has worked with the most. Matúš is knowledgeable regarding employment law, explains things clearly and is a great advisor. I find him to be efficient and responsive. Matúš considers the details and anticipates challenges. Because of his thoughtful approach to the work; he is able to make the best recommendations.’
- ‘We are working directly with Matus Kocisek (senior associate). We appreciate a lot of his professional and human approach even in the difficult situations. He always meets deadlines and provides comprehensive advice/solutions to every problem/question we have. It makes our work much easier and eliminates stress when we know that we will receive a complete answer, bilingually prepared documents.’
Key clients
- Volkswagen Slovakia
- Západoslovenská energetika
- Process Automation Solutions
- Vinci Concessions
- Scheidt & Bachmann Slovensko
- Premier Research Group
- The Capital Markets Company (CAPCO)
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Inteva Products
- Deutsche Telekom System Solutions
Work highlights
Advising Volkswagen Slovakia on various employment-related matters, including employment-related litigation, accidents at work, flexible working time models and most notably during a collective bargaining process which will lead to the conclusion of the 3-year collective agreement.
Advising Process Automation Solutions, an independent provider of complete automation solutions for the automotive, process, and manufacturing industries on posting the employees to EU countries, employment of foreigners in Slovakia, preparation of the new internal policies, update of data privacy policy as well as analysis of proper engagement model for external contractors including preparing of contractual documentation.
Advising VINCI Concession and its local subsidiaries VIA PRIBINA and VIA PRIBINA OPERATIONS on a number of employment matters, such as individual employment dismissals, secondment of employees located within EU into Slovakia, analysis of proper engagement model for external contractors, including the preparation of contractual documentation, as well as designing a multi-jurisdictional engagement setup for members of top management.
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Practice head
Pavol Rak
Other key lawyers
Roman Oleksik; Matúš Kočíšek