Where do we advise?

We provide comprehensive legal and tax transactional advisory services to investors and buyers(buy side advisory) as well as founders and owners of companies(sell side advisory) in sales and acquisitions of shares in companies. As part of the pre-transaction phase, we analyze and propose the appropriate tax and legal structure of the transaction for our clients. Subsequently, we provide our clients with turnkey services for the entire transaction process, from conducting legal and taxdue diligence of the target companies, preparing and negotiating transaction documentation(term sheet, investment agreement, corporate documents) to drafting shareholders’ agreements regulating the relations between shareholders or partners after the transaction is completed.

We advise clients on M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions primarily in the following areas:

• Advising on creating efficient transactional tax structures;
• Legal and tax due diligence of target companies;
• Legal and tax due diligence of target companies;
• Transaction advisory – preparation and representation in negotiations of complete transaction documentation (term sheet, investment agreements, corporate documentation); and
• Shareholders’ agreements.

What is our experience?

In our M&A advisory services we have advised on the following transactions:

• Comprehensive tax and legal transaction advisory services to the seller on the sale of a 90% stake in DETOX s.r.o., one of the most important companies operating in the field of industrial waste processing on the Slovak market;
• Representing Crowdberry, a leading Slovak investment platform, in connection with the acquisition of an additional stake in GymBeam s.r.o., a major Slovak e-commerce company, from co-investor Slovak Investment Holding;
• Tax and legal advisory services to the investment group Ethernum Capital on the creation of an acquisition JV structure with the private equity fund ETERUS Capital a.s., whose investment intention is consolidation acquisitions of pharmacies in the Slovak Republic;
• Transactional advisory services to Dedoles and its founder in negotiating a EUR 10 million investment from a group of investors;
• Complete legal advisory services to the acquirer of a 100% stake in EQUUS a.s., the largest producer of frozen vegetables on the Slovak market;
• Tax and legal advisory services to the globally operating Atlas Copco group in connection with the acquisition of 100% of the business share in the Slovak company ACJ;
• Legal advisory services to SEC Technologies, a major Slovak company developing a unique gas detector for the defence industry, on the preparation and negotiation of transaction documentation regulating the provision of venture capital investment by a company from the Crowdberry group;
• Transactional advisory services to the innovative company FUERGY on EUR 16 million investment from the investment group Pro Partners Holding;
• Representing Isadore, a leading Slovak cycling apparel brand, in a EUR 2.1 million investment from investment platform Crowdberry;
• advising a group of investors on EUR 1.1 million investment in REFRESHER Media.

We have been regularly ranked as a recommended and highly recommended law firm in the Law Firm of the Year competition for mergers and acquisitions advice since 2022.