Selling a business isn’t just about the price

Selling a business isn’t just about the price. At least not primarily. In practice, I see the same thing over and over again—owners focus primarily on valuation but underestimate the process itself. And that’s often what makes the difference. In reality, the sale of a company has three critical phases: 1️⃣ Preparing a company for […]
🏆 Law Firm of the Year 2026 – Capital Markets

Yesterday, we received the “Law Firm of the Year” award in the capital markets category for the third time. Over the past year and a half, this area in our country has been dominated primarily by licensing proceedings for the provision of cryptoasset services. Paradoxically, at a time when we are seeing clients move abroad, […]
ESOP 2026 in Slovak Companies

In one “department” at the Highgate Group, we had a long-standing problem with employee turnover. In addition to problems on our end, the reasons for these departures included contemporary phenomena such as: 🔹 burnout; or 🔹 discomfort caused by the emphasis on performance (there are certainly more comfortable jobs these days) However, employee turnover represents […]
💡 Trust Funds vs. Financial Management

at least according to the financial report. 13.4. I will be giving a lecture on this topic as part of an event organized by the Slovak Chamber of Tax Advisors. I would like to offer a constitutional perspective on this issue, one that will take us in a direction (completely) different from that of the […]
The MiCA Licensing Process from A to Z

When it comes to crypto and our consulting practice, I’m proud of two things: 🔹Of the 6 MiCA licenses in Slovakia, our clients hold 4 💡 Why? 💡 Because of 7 years of systematic work, market outreach, organizing conferences, lectures, podcasts, webinars, and more. Once again, this has confirmed to me that there are no […]
🖐️ Are you an accountant or a digital miner? 🤡

You know the ritual, you take one file at a time, upload it to the Financial Administration portal, click, sign, wait… and you repeat this 150 times⌛ Let us announce 🚀 The end of the era of “Single Click” In cooperation with Slovensko.Digital, we have taken efficiency to a new level. What used to take […]
M&A advice Highgate in 2025 🚀

The year 2025 was a record year for Highgate Law & Tax not only in terms of revenue and profit, but also in terms of mandates and M&A activities. 👉 In March 2025, we organized the largest Slovak M&A conference for business owners(https://lnkd.in/dw7geQYZ), also with the participation and support of KPMG in Slovakia. 👉 As […]
Tax law in Highgate in 2025 🏛️ And how are we helping to build a better Slovakia?

In addition to helping hundreds of entrepreneurs and investors operate more legally and tax efficiently and in compliance with the law (so they don’t have to look for illegal “shortcuts”), we’ve helped Slovakia in the following ways, for example: 1️⃣ Transaction tax 🔹 Problem: Entrepreneurs’ discomfort and poor quality of the law 🔹 Action: (i) […]
and the IRS has begun an audit…

As the client had been using this method of disbursement from the company for several years, there was a concern that the tax office would start auditing other tax years. This could lead to liquidation consequences. And that’s why we had to start looking at Plan B and Plan C from a legal point of […]