Group

Capital markets and investment legal and tax structures

We advise clients on the selection and structuring of various domestic and cross-border investment structures, both from a legal and tax perspective, and subsequently account for these structures. As part of our advisory services, we also represent clients in authorisation and registration proceedings before the National Bank of Slovakia.

Establishment of the first European Venture Capital Fund (EuVECA) in the V4 countries and its registration with the National Bank of Slovakia;
Representing a client in licensing proceedings before the National Bank of Slovakia in relation to the establishment of a management company for the management of alternative investment funds and foreign alternative investment funds;
Establishment, registration with the National Bank of Slovakia and subsequent continuous legal, tax and accounting advisory services to several sub-limit alternative investment funds, several of which we established in the legal form of SICAVs;
Representing a client in sanction proceedings before the National Bank of Slovakia in relation to unauthorised collective investment, both in the first instance (Financial Market Supervision Unit) and in the second instance (Banking Council);
Legal advisory services to foreign asset management companies (AIFM, UCITS managers) in setting up their distribution network and distribution of foreign alternative investment funds in Slovakia;
Establishment of the second European Venture Capital Fund (EuVECA) in Slovakia and its registration with the National Bank of Slovakia;
Legal advisory services, including drafting complete documentation, on several private and public (with prospectus) bond offerings in Slovakia;
Legal advice to a crowdfunding platform on setting up its contractual documentation for arranging secured loans;
Tax and legal advisory services consisting in the analysis, design and structuring of several potential IPOs of Slovak companies on the Bratislava Stock Exchange;
Establishment of an independent financial agent;
Continuous tax and legal advice to the peer-to-peer platform in the conduct of its business and the potential overlaps of its activities into financial regulation;
Legal and tax assistance in establishing foreign fund structures for Slovak companies;
Drafting of AML documentation and ad hoc AML advice to obliged persons in the area of financial regulation;
Comprehensive legal, regulatory and tax advice on the creation of investor structures such as fund, bond, investment and other structures.