Corporate Law
We offer comprehensive advice in a wide range of corporate matters, encompassing public takeovers, private mergers and acquisitions, complex joint ventures, disposals, corporate restructurings, and general commercial, antitrust and corporate governance issues.
As far as corporate law practice is concerned, we are engaged in all areas of corporate law, including the structure of the companies, the relationship between the manager and his company and the shareholders of the company, the liability of the board of directors, and other managers, increasing and decreasing of the capital of the company, mergers and split of the companies and other related issues of corporate law matters.
We offer the full remit of corporate expertise to a wide range of clients, from technology-focused start-ups to established multinational blue-chip companies. A primary focus is the automotive industry and electrotechnical and machining industries. We advise on all forms of corporate finance, from private and public mergers and acquisitions and private equity to IPOs and joint ventures, and the corporate governance and company advice needed.
We have extensive expertise in:
- Incorporation of Slovak companies and branches.
- Joint ventures and shareholders agreements.
- Day-to-day company agenda including drafting and amending founder’s deeds, articles of association, statutes and other corporate documents, organization of general meetings and representation of shareholders drafting AGM minutes and securing formalities in relation to public authorities and performance of information duty.
- Purchase companies “off the shelf” and administration of those companies including the arrangement of a temporary office/address for those companies.
- Representation in related proceedings before the Commercial Register, authorities of supervision over the capital market, and authorities keeping the register of securities.
- Securing necessary requirements imposed by governmental authorities (trade office, tax office, labour and social security offices, etc.).
- Share capital increase and reduction, spin-offs and other forms of corporate restructuring, as well as structuring of relationships between the members of a group of companies.
- Advising on corporate and criminal liability of shareholders and managers of companies and application of the corporate principle to act in the best interests of the company and all of its shareholders, and the prohibition of conflicts of interests, including working in the best interests of the group.
- Liquidation of companies and branches.
- Mergers and transformation of companies.
- Protection of minority shareholders and security of companies against the abuse of minority shareholders’ rights
