The Government of the Slovak Republic has introduced a draft law on the conversions of companies and cooperatives (the Draft Law) that implements EU Directive 2019/2121, amending Directive 2017/1132 with regard to cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions (the Directive).

Dentons has advised Farmak on a series of acquisitions from a portfolio company of private equity house Novator. 

Legal AI developments, the impact of whistleblowing legislation, and the potential for a shorter work week keep lawyers talking in Slovakia, while a slowdown in legislative activity has them worried, according to Eversheds Sutherland Partner Annamaria Tothova.

CEELM: Tell us a bit about the deal and your firm’s role in getting it across the finish line. 

Contributed by Majernik & Mihalikova.

Contributed by CMS.

Contributed by Dentons.

Contributed by Squire Patton Boggs.

Contributed by Majernik & Mihalikova.

The commercial legal markets of Central & Eastern Europe didn’t appear automatically. They didn’t develop in a vacuum. They were formed, shaped, and led, by lawyers – visionary, hard-working, commercially-minded, and client-focused individuals pulling the development of CEE’s legal markets along behind them as they labored relentlessly for their clients, their careers, their futures.