Protection of property and business – Slovakia or abroad?

Peter Varga

Highgate Group

Peter Varga worked for five years in the Bratislava office of a major international law firm 大成 Dentons, where he advised clients on cross-border financing and international tax law. Peter is a co-founder and partner of Highgate Group, where he specializes primarily in transactional tax advice and creating efficient tax and legal structures for Slovak and international clients, including in the areas of M&A, private equity and venture capital investments. He also advises clients on setting up Slovak and cross-border investment funds and represents clients in proceedings before the National Bank of Slovakia and the Financial Administration. He regularly lectures, writes articles and also participates as an advisor in several legislative projects.

Tomas Demo

Highgate Group

Tomáš Demo worked for five years for the Bratislava office of Allen & Overy, a leading global law firm, where he focused on cross-border and local mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate law and litigation. Tomas is a co-founder and partner of Highgate Group, with a primary focus on M&A, private equity and venture capital investments. Tomáš has more than 15 years of transactional legal experience, having acted as legal counsel representing both sellers and buyers (investors) in more than 120 transactions in the Slovak market. He also advises clients on due diligence of target companies and assists in setting up relationships between shareholders through shareholders' agreements. He regularly publishes on the sale of and investments in Slovak companies.

Miroslav Boublik

Across Private Investments

Miroslav Boublík has been the Chief Executive Officer of Across Private Investments since 2024. In addition to his native Czech Republic, he has worked in five countries over the last 30 years of his career. He started his career in the USA, where he worked, among others, at the renowned consulting company McKinsey. After moving to Europe, he was part of the management of banking houses in Ukraine and Russia. For four years he was in the team of Home Credit International, which is part of the PPF Group. There he worked his way up to the position of Managing Partner for Corporate Venture Capital.

Andrej Rajčány

Across Private Investments

Andrej Rajčány has been with Across Private Investments since 2017 and currently holds the position of Chief Investment Officer and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is responsible for portfolio management, financial markets trading and product management. He graduated in Foreign Trade at the Faculty of Commerce of the University of Economics in Bratislava, and completed training programs focused on financial derivatives trading in Vienna, London and New York. In his previous positions he managed a Luxembourg private investment fund, managed securities trading on global equity, money and currency markets, coordinated trading in energy derivatives and commodities, and acted as a risk manager. In June 2021, he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Securities Traders Association.

Peter Kubina

Dentons, Bratislava

Peter Kubina is the Managing Partner of Dentons ' Bratislava office and also leads the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Criminal practice in Dentons' Bratislava office. His practice focuses on dispute resolution in a variety of areas - from criminal law to civil, employment and commercial litigation to constitutional matters and strategic litigation. He also acts as an arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations. He occasionally lectures at Comenius University on topics related to constitutional law.

Martin Hanzlik

MONECO Family Office

Martin Hanzlík is an expert in designing, structuring and promoting alternative investment funds and financial instruments to meet the needs of private clients. He is a financial expert who has applied his expertise mainly in the context of the European Structural and Investment Funds and in the regulation of new alternative investment funds. As a professional with many years of consulting experience, he combines deep financial expertise with a strong client orientation. He was the main architect of the implementation of EU financial instruments in the Czech Republic, serving as a Government Plenipotentiary, advisor to the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic and member of the National Economic Council of the Government. He is co-author of the Czech Republic's Competitiveness Strategy and founder of the non-profit initiatives Czech Republic for Finance and Czech Innovation.

Miloslav Makovini

INCORPORT

Miloslav Makovini has been based in Dubai since 2017, where he provides corporate services through his company INCORPORTAS. These services include company formation, assistance in opening bank accounts and obtaining residency visas, as well as accounting (under IFRS) and tax compliance in the UAE. As a registered attorney with the Slovak Bar Association, he also has experience in international tax planning, offshore structuring, forensic audits, cross-border mergers and transfer pricing.

Ivan Melay

Salmann Investment Management

Ivan Melay, MSc, CFA, is a Client Relationship Manager and member of the Investment Committee at Salmann Investment Management AG, an independent external asset manager based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. He holds an engineering degree in business from the University of Liechtenstein (2012) and received his CFA certificate in 2019. Ivan has more than twelve years of experience as a private banker at Bendura Bank AG, where he most recently served as Head of the Central Europe team. Ivan specializes in advising private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises on asset management, financial planning, financing and succession planning. In addition, he has extensive experience advising clients with exposure to cryptoassets, particularly in their interactions with banking institutions.

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