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Venture capital and M&A

We are legal, tax and accounting advisors in the field of M&A and private equity. We advise on venture capital investments in high-growth companies (startups). We provide transactional advice on legal, tax and accounting aspects for both sellers and buyers.

Predaj firmy a patové situácie medzi spoločníkmi: Ako im predchádzať?

Sale of the company and deadlock between the partners: How to prevent them?

Selling a business is one of the most important moments for owners in their business journey. However, it often does not come without obstacles. Family ...
Zostať alebo odísť? Tatiana Ondrejková o tom, čo dnes znamená podnikať na Slovensku

To stay or to leave? Tatiana Ondrejková on what it means to do business in Slovakia today

Slovakia has a lot of smart people, but fewer and fewer reasons why they would want to do business here. Tatiana Ondrejková, founder of Pelikan, ...

Why am I still doing business in Slovakia? Pragmatic view of Tatiana Ondrejkova

Interview with Tatiana Ondrejková (CEO Pelikán) and Tomáš Dem (CEO Highgate Group) about: ► how the business environment in Slovakia is changing, ► why transaction ...

7 things that determine the value of your company (and investors love them)

In an interview with Tomas Dem and Karol Balca, we look at the biggest myths and hard facts about valuing companies and selling a business. ...

Selling a business without mistakes: 7 recommendations from experienced advisors

Selling a business is a life event for most owners – and often the only such deal in their career. Yet, in Slovakia, we encounter ...

How to motivate and retain employees in the 21st century? ESOP over blockchain as a solution

The demography of Slovakia is collapsing. The number of children born is declining, young people are leaving, businesses are facing turnover and lack of loyalty. ...

How to motivate employees without increasing salaries? ESOP and blockchain explained!

How do you retain key employees without costing you double their salary by taking advantage of blockchain technology? In this episode of Highgate Talks, we ...

Peter Varga lectured for the Slovak Chamber of Tax Advisors: company card and private expenses – where are the boundaries?

What are the tax, commercial and criminal risks associated with the use of company funds for private purposes? This question was also dealt with in ...

Do you have problems with turnover? You can reduce it with this tool

In this episode of Highgate Talks, we broached a topic that many talk about, but perhaps few really address effectively. Peter Varga (CEO of Highgate ...
ako hodnotu firmu môže ovplyvniť zamestnávanie živnostníkov

Tomáš Demo for TREND: Employing freelancers can also reduce the value of a company

Tomáš Demo, attorney and partner of Highgate Group, gave an interview for TREND weekly, where he presented the most common pitfalls when selling a company. ...
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Why am I still doing business in Slovakia? Pragmatic view of Tatiana Ondrejkova

Interview with Tatiana Ondrejková (CEO Pelikán) and Tomáš Dem (CEO Highgate Group) about: ► how the business environment in Slovakia is changing, ► why transaction ...

7 things that determine the value of your company (and investors love them)

In an interview with Tomas Dem and Karol Balca, we look at the biggest myths and hard facts about valuing companies and selling a business. ...

How to motivate employees without increasing salaries? ESOP and blockchain explained!

How do you retain key employees without costing you double their salary by taking advantage of blockchain technology? In this episode of Highgate Talks, we ...

Do you have problems with turnover? You can reduce it with this tool

In this episode of Highgate Talks, we broached a topic that many talk about, but perhaps few really address effectively. Peter Varga (CEO of Highgate ...
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Peter Varga lectured for the Slovak Chamber of Tax Advisors: company card and private expenses – where are the boundaries?

What are the tax, commercial and criminal risks associated with the use of company funds for private purposes? This question was also dealt with in ...
ako hodnotu firmu môže ovplyvniť zamestnávanie živnostníkov

Tomáš Demo for TREND: Employing freelancers can also reduce the value of a company

Tomáš Demo, attorney and partner of Highgate Group, gave an interview for TREND weekly, where he presented the most common pitfalls when selling a company. ...
financovanie firiem

Peter Varga at SLOVCA: Alternative Financing for Growing Companies 2025 conference on bond and fund options for raising capital for venture capital/private equity companies

On 12 March 2025, entrepreneurs and investment experts met at The SPOT in Bratislava for a conference on financing opportunities for growing companies. Experts from ...
Najčastejšie chyby pri predaji firmy

The most common mistakes when selling a company – Tomáš Demo for TA3

Selling a business is a complex process where entrepreneurs can make a number of mistakes that will negatively affect the final course of the transaction. ...
Individuálne riešenia namiesto plošných benefitov: Ako si firmy môžu udržať zamestnancov

Individual solutions instead of across-the-board benefits: how companies can retain employees

Today, employers face challenges in retaining quality workers, as many employees prefer trends such as sabbatical or job hopping. Conventional across-the-board benefits are often no ...
Kúpna cena pri predaji firmy

Purchase price on sale of the company. How much and when will I actually get paid?

In addition to the valuation, the second key condition of the sale is the amount of the purchase price and its payment. The amount of ...

Peter Varga became the new Chairman of the Legal & Tax Committee of SLOVCA, the Slovak venture capital/private equity association

Legal & Tax Committee SLOVCA has a new leader. Following approval by the Board of Directors, Peter Varga, co-founder and partner of Highgate Group, was ...

Highgate Law & Tax and its double triumph in the prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition

Highgate Law & Tax has once again scored an outstanding success in the prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition, where it has maintained its ...

Real Estate – Taxes and Financing Conference (Unique conference on fund and tax structures, crowdfunding, bonds, bank financing, etc.)

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 ...

Employee Stock Ownership Conference (ESOPe)

We like to do things differently, we even enjoy doing things differently. And obviously this approach proved to be successful when we organized a conference ...
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Sale and purchase of companies

The sale of a company or the entry of an investor is often a key milestone in the lives of business owners and founders. Despite ...

Real Estate – Taxes and Financing

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 ...

Employee Stock and Option Plan (ESOP) in Slovak companies

Employee stock option plans (ESOPs) have become standard in Slovak companies in recent years. And not only in start-ups, but also in larger and profitable ...

Tax and legal optimization for digital / IT companies (28.11. and 29.11.2022)

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 ...

Employee share and option plans – conference

In the era of the digital economy, skilled and experienced employees are often a company’s most valuable asset. Technology and high-growth companies in particular are ...

Video | Conference Selling and buying companies: BLOCK 4 | 14:35 – 16:30

Video recording from the largest Slovak conference on M&A private equity and venture capital on 13 March 2025: 4 . conference block | 14:35 - ...

Video | Conference Selling and buying companies: BLOCK 3 | 13:00 – 14:15

Video recording from the largest Slovak conference on M&A private equity and venture capital on 13 March 2025: 3 . conference block | 13:00 - ...

Video | Conference Selling and buying companies: BLOCK 2 | 10:25 – 12:00

Video recording from the largest Slovak conference on M&A private equity and venture capital on 13 March 2025: 2 . conference block | 10:25 - ...

Video | Conference Selling and buying companies: BLOCK 1 | 9:00 – 10:05

Video recording from the largest Slovak conference on M&A private equity and venture capital on 13 March 2025: 1 . conference block | 9:00 - ...

Video | Conference Selling and buying companies: the whole conference

Video recording from the largest Slovak conference on M&A private equity and venture capital on 13 March 2025: Full conference | 9:00 - 16:30 Topics: ...

Real Estate Finance – a recording of a breakout session from our big conference on regulatory and tax structures in real estate 2023

Video recording from the Real Estate - Taxes and Financing Conference. Panel: Financovanie nehnuteľností Presented by Tomáš Demo (Highgate Group) Panelists Miroslav Hilčík (Wood & ...

Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) from a legal, tax and practical perspective – a recording of our 2023 conference

The aim of the conference specifically dedicated to ESOPs was to show best practices ofdifferent types of such structures in a comprehensible way. This is ...

ESOP – best practice – legal and tax perspective – recording from the session of our big conference on tax optimization for IT and marketing companies – 2022

This is a recording of a 55-minute lecture from our conference on legal and tax optimization for technology companies (more info here), which we organized ...

🔍 Selling the company in 2025? The market plays into the hands of buyers.

If you are a business owner considering a sale or an investor looking to acquire a business – prepare yourself for a new market situation. ...

How to sell a business well. A (re)sell conference on selling companies.

  Last Thursday we managed to do something extraordinary. ✨ At our conference, we provided business owners with know-how from owners of “exited” companies, transaction ...

💡 WHAT IS THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN M&A AND FINANCIAL REGULATION?

  Although bank financing is the standard for M&A transactions, it is not the only option, with various regulated structures providing an alternative. Examples include ...

EBITDA OUR DAILY, GIVE US TODAY.

EBITDA OUR DAILY, GIVE US TODAY. When a company is sold, the purchase price is in most cases calculated through a transaction multiple of EBITDA ...

WE’VE GOT A BIT OF A PROBLEM HERE. IN THE VALUATION OF SHARES IN THE COMPANY.

WE’VE GOT A BIT OF A PROBLEM HERE. IN THE VALUATION OF SHARES IN THE COMPANY. Recently, another case has come to us, which in ...

PART OF THE SALES AND INVESTMENTS IN SLOVAK COMPANIES FAIL IN THE PROCESS.

A PART OF SALES AND INVESTMENT IN SLOVAK COMPANIES FAILS IN PROCESS. I have been doing my internal statistics. We at Highgate Law & Tax ...

TRANSACTIONAL ADVISORY SERVICES TO GENESIS GROWTH EQUITY FUND

TRANSACTION ADVISORY FOR GENESIS GROWTH EQUITY FUND We provided comprehensive transaction advisory services to Genesis Growth Equity Fund on the acquisition of an 80% stake ...

HOW DO YOU PROTECT THE ASSETS AND BUSINESS BUILT UP OVER YEARS IN AN UNREFORMED COUNTRY ?

HOW DO YOU PROTECT THE ASSETS AND BUSINESS BUILT UP OVER YEARS IN AN UNREFORMED COUNTRY ? We recently published our next podcast(https://bitly.cx/GPTln), where my ...

I HAVE A PARTNER IN MY COMPANY WHO IS JUST “DRIVING”

I HAVE A PARTNER IN MY COMPANY WHO ONLY “KNOWS” (dead equity). CAN I FIRE HIM? The situation when after years some partners at best ...

WITHIN SEVEN YEARS WE WANT TO BE THE MARKET LEADER IN DENTAL CLINICS IN SLOVAKIA

WITHIN SEVEN YEARS WE WANT TO BE THE LEADER IN THE SLOVAK TOOTH CLINICS MARKET 💪 These words were said to me almost a year ...
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  • Comprehensive tax and legal transaction advisory services to the seller on the sale of a 90% stake in DETOX s.r.o., one of the most important companies operating in the field of industrial waste processing on the Slovak market;
  • Representing Crowdberry, a leading Slovak investment platform, in connection with the acquisition of an additional stake in GymBeam s.r.o., a major Slovak e-commerce company, from co-investor Slovak Investment Holding;
  • Tax and legal advisory services to the investment group Ethernum Capital on the creation of an acquisition JV structure with the private equity fund ETERUS Capital a.s., whose investment intention is consolidation acquisitions of pharmacies in the Slovak Republic;
  • Transactional advisory services to Dedoles and its founder in negotiating a EUR 10 million investment from a group of investors;
  • Complete legal advisory services to the acquirer of a 100% stake in EQUUS a.s., the largest producer of frozen vegetables on the Slovak market;
  • Tax and legal advisory services to the globally operating Atlas Copco group in connection with the acquisition of 100% of the business share in the Slovak company ACJ;
  • Legal advisory services to SEC Technologies, a major Slovak company developing a unique gas detector for the defence industry, on the preparation and negotiation of transaction documentation regulating the provision of venture capital investment by a company from the Crowdberry group;
  • Transactional advisory services to the innovative company FUERGY on EUR 16 million investment from the investment group Pro Partners Holding;
  • Representing Isadore, a leading Slovak cycling apparel brand, on a EUR 2.1 million investment from investment platform Crowdberry;
    advising a group of investors on a EUR 1.1 million investment in REFRESHER Media.

Your key contacts

Tomas Demo tomas.demo@highgate.sk

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