We advise a large number of Slovak start-ups and existing digital and IT companies in the areas of law, tax and accounting.
We have a relatively intimate knowledge of the related realities of this segment.
Whether it is the topic of tax and tax optimization, “employing freelancers”, investor entry, establishing a holding company, automated accounting, ESOPs, legal, practical and tax pitfalls of scaling a business abroad or operating with crypto, these are all topics that we encounter in practice.
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Peter is co-founder of boutique consultancy Highgate Group. Previously, he worked in the Bratislava office of international law firm 大成 Dentons, where he focused on cross-border finance and international tax law. He also worked on the second historic cross-border IPO in Slovakia. Peter's advisory practice focuses primarily on financial regulation and setting up tax and legal structures for Slovak and foreign clients, including ESOP structures. Peter is also an advisor to a number of governmental authorities, having participated in part in the amendment of the Income Tax Act regulating ESOPs.
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Tomáš is a co-founder of Highgate Group, a consultancy group providing comprehensive legal, tax and accounting advice under one roof. Previously, he worked in the Bratislava office of the international law firm Allen & Overy, where he focused on cross-border M&A transactions and corporate law. Tomas primarily focuses on startup law, venture capital and M&A transactions, corporate law and corporate setup of local and cross-border ESOP structures. Tomas led the Highgate Group team in the establishment of the first European venture capital fund, EuVECA, in the V4 countries.
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Miroslav was a member of the M&A advisory team of KPMG's international network in Slovakia for 9 years, where he primarily focused on advising on M&A transactions across a wide range of sectors. At the same time, Miroslav served as Head of Corporate Valuation and Financial Modelling at KPMG Slovakia. Subsequently, Miroslav founded Axelero Capital Advisors, which focuses mainly on transaction advisory and valuation of companies. The portfolio of services also includes advising on the commercial set-up of ESOP schemes, in particular setting commercial parameters or valuation of the companies in question. In his practice to date, Miroslav has helped set up such structures for companies mainly in the e-commerce, professional services and healthcare sectors.
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Kamil worked as a sales director and strategic consultant in building and managing business networks of large mobile operators and banks in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In recent years, he has been working on startup projects in the field of digital transformation. He is the founder of the personal expense management app eBlocky (2 times app of the year in Slovakia) and the Doklado app. Doklado is an app for digital processing of receipts and invoices for entrepreneurs and accountants. Its vision is the full digitalization and automation of accounting, removing bureaucratic and manual activities associated with business.
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Milan is a graduate of the Faculty of Economic Informatics at the University of Economics in Bratislava. During his work experience he worked as an independent accountant at TPA TAX and also as the head of the International Cooperation and Standards Department at the Office for Audit Supervision, which gave him a lot of experience in the field of accounting and auditing. Milan has been with the Highgate Group since 2021 and is primarily involved in providing accounting advice to funds and mid-sized clients. In addition, he is involved in teaching and research activities in the Department of Accounting and Auditing, where he is an Assistant Professor.
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Braňo is one of the founders of SuperFaktúra, a service that focuses on simplifying business for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs. He has been CEO since 2014. He is a fan of automation especially when it comes to data exchange between different systems. For the last two years, he has been intensively following and commenting on the upcoming state invoicing plan.
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Marián Volent has been the Chief of the Commercial Section of the U.S. Embassy in Bratislava since March 2021. He represents the U.S. Commercial Service, which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. In this capacity, he is responsible for all U.S. Department of Commerce commercial activities and programs in Slovakia, including the promotion of U.S. exports to Slovakia, commercial diplomacy and advocacy on behalf of U.S. exporters, and the promotion of Slovak investment in the U.S. Marian graduated from the Technical University of Zvolen in June 1992 with a degree in engineering.
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Prior to joining Highgate Accounting in 2017, Peter worked for 7 years in a production company where he was responsible for creating and setting up internal financial and technical processes. Currently at Highgate Accounting, together with the external IT team, he is overseeing the implementation of both technology and organisational tools and processes to streamline the delivery of accounting services and internal processes. Peter is also responsible for the implementation of internal systems and the technical and logistical onboarding of new accounting clients, where he sets up the accounting and data flow as part of the digitisation of the accounting function. As Peter has relevant accounting experience and knowledge of accounting software, this combination creates an effective and desirable element in the delivery of accounting services.
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Michal is a Partner at Crowdberry. He is involved in the strategic leadership of the firm, serving as a member of the Board of Directors from 2016 to 2020. Since 2019, he has been a Managing Director at CB Investment Management, a subsidiary of Crowdberry, where he manages the CB Growth ONE investment fund with 23 million in investment capital under management. EUR 23 million, which is focused on investments in young companies. At the same time, as a Crowdberry Partner, he manages the legal area of the group of companies, including the management of the legal department team members and the management of internal control. To date at Crowdberry and CBIM, he has managed and overseen the closing of investments in nearly 40 Slovak and Czech companies, amounting to nearly EUR 30 million. EUR. During his career, he has managed and supervised equity investments in nearly 50 young innovative companies in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Hungary.
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Matej co-founded Touch4IT in 2012, which in its 10 years of existence has gone from creating native mobile applications, through complex presentation websites built on large web frameworks such as Yii, Symfony, NodeJS to the present day, where Touch4IT has more than 30 in-house programmers, software architects, graphic designers and marketing specialists and a department specialized in augmented reality (AR) and OiT (Internet of Things). As part of the business operations, Matej also covers project and product management as a lead account manager within Touch4IT.
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Vladimíra Mačuhová worked as a tax advisor at EY, as a tax manager at T-Mobile and as the executive director of the tax consulting company FINSERVIS TAX, s.r.o. Currently, she works at Highgate Law & Tax, where she specializes in taxation of investments (mainly crypto-assets), VAT risks and advising on projects and construction of new business solutions. She is the co-founder of cryptotaxlaw, a platform focused on taxation and regulation of cryptoassets. She is also a member of the working group on taxation of cryptoassets created within the Ministry of Finance and the FR of the Slovak Republic and a member of the Methodological and Legislative Commissions for corporate income tax and VAT within the Slovak Chamber of Tax Advisors. She is engaged in commenting on new legislation, lecturing and writing professional articles.
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Speaker: Peter Varga, Tomas Demo, Michal Nespor
Speaker: Milan Gedeon, Miroslav Mulica
Speaker: Peter Šopinec, Kamil Krajňak, Branislav Šimo
Speaker: Peter Varga
Speaker: Peter Varga, Tomas Demo
Speaker: Peter Varga, Vladimíra Mačuhová
Speaker: Peter Varga
Speaker: Peter Varga, Tomas Demo
Speaker: Tomas Demo, Matej Mihálech
Speaker: Marián Volent
Speaker: Peter Varga, Milan Gedeon
Speaker: Peter Varga
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