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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.

Collective investment is an area of the financial sector, it can be argued, that has been less affected by the impact of new legislation on ...
Setting up a small investment fund in Slovakia may not be difficult in some cases. It is the subsequent management and distribution that can be ...
Peter Varga was a guest on the Trend podcast with Ronald Izip, where he discussed the topic of regulations and taxation of various investment instruments ...
The next installment in the Highgate Talks series looks at the legal and tax aspects of peer-to-peer platforms. The video podcast features a discussion between ...
It has been 13 years since the adoption of the AIFMD. This directive has been of fundamental, even revolutionary, importance in the field of investment ...
What is crowdfunding? Crowdfunding is a modern and increasingly established method of alternative fundraising, especially for startups and small and medium-sized enterprises. The essence of ...
The topic of the eleventh episode of the Highgate Talks podcast is investing in real estate through real estate funds. In the podcast, our guest ...
Highgate Law & Tax has once again scored an outstanding success in the prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition, where it has maintained its ...
Taxation of ETF funds , problems in the taxation of bonds, opportunities for tax optimisation, as well as common mistakes made by investors when taxing ...
Crowdfunding is an alternative form of funding for both charitable and entrepreneurial projects. It is a matching of the demand and supply of funds, where ...
The next installment in the Highgate Talks series looks at the legal and tax aspects of peer-to-peer platforms. The video podcast features a discussion between ...
The topic of the eleventh episode of the Highgate Talks podcast is investing in real estate through real estate funds. In the podcast, our guest ...
Peter Varga was a guest on the Trend podcast with Ronald Izip, where he discussed the topic of regulations and taxation of various investment instruments ...
Highgate Law & Tax has once again scored an outstanding success in the prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition, where it has maintained its ...
Taxation of ETF funds , problems in the taxation of bonds, opportunities for tax optimisation, as well as common mistakes made by investors when taxing ...
Crowdfunding is an alternative form of funding for both charitable and entrepreneurial projects. It is a matching of the demand and supply of funds, where ...
In June 2023, the National Bank of Slovakia organised a very successful conference on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the National Bank of ...
In November 2023, TA3 held its biggest conference to date. Various investment topics were discussed during the different panels. Peter Varga, who represented Highgate Group, ...
In November, Highgate Group organised the largest ever business conference in Bratislava’s Grand Hotel River Park and Luxury Collection on the legal, tax and regulatory ...
We welcomed more than 200 attendees to our largest conference to date, which focused on real estate financing through various regulatory and tax structures. We ...
Highgate Law & Tax participated in the prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition, the only one of its kind in Slovakia, which is attended ...
Who can set up an alternative fund in Slovakia and what does it entail? There is currently a growing interest in small investment funds. Although ...
Both small and larger Slovak or foreign investment funds investing in real estate enjoy constant high attention among Slovaks. However, in addition to setting up ...
Small Slovak or foreign investment funds are gaining more and more attention among Slovaks. Thus, investment funds for real estate, securities, derivative operations, venture capital ...
Video recording from the Real Estate - Taxes and Financing Conference. Panel: Malé fondy na Slovensku a ich distribúcia Presented by Peter Varga (Highgate Group) ...
Video recording from the Real Estate - Taxes and Financing Conference. Panel: Alternatívne formy získavania kapitálu od investorov a investovanie do zahraničných nehnuteľností Presented by ...
Video recording from the Real Estate - Taxes and Financing Conference. Panel: Väčšie investičné fondy na nehnuteľnosti Presented by Peter Varga (Highgate Group) Panelists Pavol ...
Video recording from the Real Estate - Taxes and Financing Conference. Panel: Zakladanie fondov v zahraničí, zdaňovanie, regulácia a distribúcia na Slovensku Presented by Peter ...
Video recording from the Real Estate - Taxes and Financing Conference. Panel: Financovanie nehnuteľností Presented by Tomáš Demo (Highgate Group) Panelists Miroslav Hilčík (Wood & ...
  • 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.

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