Kinstellar

The firm: Kinstellar is a leading independent law firm in emerging Europe, Turkey and Central Asia, with offices in Almaty and Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Bucharest (Romania), Budapest (Hungary), Istanbul (Turkey), Kyiv (Ukraine), Prague (the Czech Republic), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Uzbekistan (Tashkent).

Working together since 1993, Kinstellar’s senior team in Bratislava has advised on some of the most significant deals in Slovakia’s modern history and is one of the longest-established legal teams in the country.

The firm has a proven successful track record when acting on behalf of a diverse range of leading international, regional and local market participants, including multinational companies, banks and multilateral financial institutions, leading domestic companies and state agencies and institutions.

With a mix of internationally and locally qualified lawyers and experts, the firm brings a balanced and considered view to client transactions. Kinstellar’s expertise covers Slovakia’s strategic businesss sectors, including automotive, banking and finance, energy, healthcare, infrastructure, IT, manufacturing and telecommunications.

The Bratislava office is ranked highly by the international legal directories, with particularly strong banking and finance, corporate and M&A and real estate practices and has numerous individual rankings of members of the senior team.

Areas of practice: The firm’s focal areas of practice include banking, finance and capital markets; competition and state aid; compliance, risk and sensitive investigations; dispute resolution; employment and labour law; energy; infrastructure and projects; M&A and corporate; NPLs and distressed assets; real estate, construction and planning; restructuring and insolvency; tax and technology, media and telecommunications.