Havel & Partners, Slovak Republic

LEGAL TEAM HAVEL & PARTNERS, with offices in Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Pilsen, Olomouc, and Ostrava, has a team of 290 lawyers and tax advisors, approx. 180 associates and 500 employees in total, including employees of the affiliated debt collection agency Cash Collectors, and is the largest independent law firm in Central Europe. OUR CLIENTS Our clients include large international companies, leading Czech and Slovak firms, including strategic state-owned companies and public sector authorities, as well as medium-size businesses, individual entrepreneurs, and investors. We advise approximately 150 of the largest Fortune 500 global companies, almost 50 of the Czech Top 100 companies and 20 of the TOP 100 Slovak companies. HAVEL & PARTNERS currently provides its services to a total of 2,500 clients. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION We have the most comprehensive international support available to both Czech and Slovak law firms. We provide legal and tax advice in 12 languages and have assisted our clients in almost 110 countries around the globe. Up to 70 % of the transactions we deal with involve an international aspect. Our clients have access to international and local know-how and expertise through more than 90,000 lawyers in nearly 160 countries. In cross-border transactions outside the Czech and Slovak Republics, our office, as a leading independent law firm, works closely with prominent European and international law firms on a non-exclusive basis. In addition to our branch office in Slovakia, we have established close cooperation with leading law firms in other Central and Eastern European countries and we regularly provide legal services for transactions involving the CEE countries, particularly Poland, Hungary, Russia, the Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria. AWARDS Our lawyers are regularly cited as leading or recommended specialists by renowned international publications such as PLC Cross-border, Legal 500, Chambers Global Guide, and IFLR 1000.