CLS Cavojsky & Partners

Effective solutions are based on individual approach focused on the client´s needs – that is how we work in CLS Cavojsky & Partners.

Individual treatment is one of the key issues that can characterize our legal services. This contains not only how we treat our clients but also understanding of specifics of the industry in which they operate.

We believe in the long-term relationships – and we are proud that the majority of our clients stay with us for many years. We provide legal advice for not only national but also multinational corporations operating in Slovakia or whose business interests are in Slovakia.

We operate in many cases as a key contact point and integrator for the full scale of advisory services that our clients require and therefore we can contribute to make the business life of our clients easier.

We are innovative and that does not mean only when speaking about modern technologies. Innovation in our view means looking for effective solutions, trying to look at the issues from the global perspective and making it as simple as possible, following the modern trends.

Last but not least – we believe in open relations with our clients, built on mutual trust.

Areas of practice
Corporate law: Our law office provides complex legal services in the area of corporate law for our clients. Our work consists mainly of the following:

• mergers and acquisitions, including the preparation of transaction documentation and representation of the investor/seller
• realization of due diligence
• implementation of corporate governance principles
• implementation of compliance standards
• legal support for the risk management
• management of contractual relationship in terms of internal corporate standards
• adjustment of work processes of the company
• shareholder disputes
• post-acquisition support
• startup projects.

Labour/employment law: CLS Cavojsky & Partners provides legal services to Slovak and foreign employers in the area of labour and employment law. Our work consists mainly of the following:

• legal advisory through effective setting of HR relations
• elaboration of internal rules of a company and preparation of its control   system
• legal advisory in the area of management contracts
• preparation and performance of an HR audit of a company
• representation in labour law disputes and in collective bargaining
• comprehensive legal support for employers in making collective redundancies
• due diligence in the area of HR.

Banking and insurance law: CLS Cavojsky & Partners cooperate with Slovak and foreign banks with office in Slovak Republic. Our law office also provides legal services to insurance companies in Slovak republic. Our work consists mainly of the following:

• legal advisory on banking and insurance products in term of Slovak and European legislation
• reviewing activities of financial markets from the point of view of legal consumer protection
• legal support of compliance
• legal consumer protection
• preparing legal analyses in the financial market area
• preparing contractual documentation for several companies operating on the financial intermediation market as well as representing such companies in relation to the regulator.

Competition: Competition law has an impact on each business entity. In order to provide complex consultancy this legal field is an integral part of our services. Our work consists mainly of the following:

• legal advisory in unfair trade
• legal representation of client in proceedings related to unfair competition
• legal advice for a central government authority in the area of state aid
• legal advice for a foreign investor in the area of state aid
• legal assessment of potential product substitutability
• legal assessment of relationship setting in the sale of products of a competitor holding a dominant position on the market
• legal support for a client in the area of cartel agreements and their elimination.

Insolvency law: Our law office provides legal services to clients related to insolvency law. We are using experiences with bankruptcy procedures, when we provide our legal services to our clients. Our work consists mainly of the following:

• legal advice for crisis management of client during restructuring process
• legal advice for debtors during the restructuring process
• legal representation of a bank as a creditor in incident disputes in insolvency proceedings
• legal support for insolvency administrators during insolvency proceedings
•  legal support for debtors during informal restructurings.

Real estate and construction: CLS Cavojsky & Partners provides complex legal services in the area real estate and construction law for clients. Our work consists mainly of the following:

• comprehensive legal services in developer projects
• preparing templates of agreements on the transfers of estates
• representation in administrative procedures
• settlement of estate, referring to the rights of property
• legal advice related to the possibility and form of acquiring agricultural land, support for proposing a change to the Land – Use Plan.

Intellectual property rights: Intellectual property law is not the advisory that is generally provided by the law firms, so we take it as our benefit that we offer to clients a legal support in this area. Our work consists mainly of the following:

• trademark registration
• preparation of contract documentation in the field of copyright
• opposition, revocation and other proceedings relating to the validity of trademarks, patents, designs
• transfers, licenses and liens to trademarks, the patents, resp. utility model
• enforcement of trade mark rights and other contentious matter of the trade mark
• advisory and consultancy activities in the issue of industrial rights including prevention and restriction of violations of intellectual property rights
• legal support in transfers of international patents;
• preparation a license agreement
• legal advice for production of audio – visual works.