UNIQUE COMBINATION OF LEGAL AND TAX SERVICES
Highgate Law & Tax law firm based in Bratislava, Slovakia provides a unique combination of legal and tax advisory services for domestic and foreign clients. The law firm was established by attorneys at law with a background in major international laws firms Allen & Overy and 大成 Dentons, having extensive experience with significant local and cross-border transactions. We primarily specialise in corporate and tax, venture capital, blochain and investment funds regulation. We provide our clients with flexible, comprehensible and tailor-made advisory services.
VENTURE CAPITAL AND STARTUP LAW
Our lawyers have extensive experience with an advisory in the field of venture capital and start-up law. Our services include consulting on legal and tax structuring of fast-growing businesses, regulation of the relationship between founders and investors (shareholders ‘agreements), representation of investors and founders in negotiations on debt, quasi-debt and equity investment transactions. We also advise on structuring and implementation of employee stock option plans.
TAX LAW
Our tax advisory services in the area of tax optimization primarily focus on creating tax efficient and legally sustainable business structures. We help our clients to analyse, create or restructure their national and cross-border corporate structures, including the assistance with establishment and management of companies in foreign jurisdictions (offshore companies).
CORPORATE LAW AND M&A
Our lawyers and tax advisors provide comprehensive legal and tax advice to Slovak and foreign entrepreneurs in a wide range of business transactions, from setting up financing and tax effective transaction structure, performing due diligence, setting up shareholder relations and preparing transaction documentation required for sales and purchase of ownership interests and shares in companies operating in Slovakia and abroad.
Tax law
Tax controls
We provide our clients with comprehensive advice on the prevention and management of tax controls. Our preventive advice includes advice on setting up a business in order to protect assets, ensure business continuity in the event of tax controls and effectively manage administrative and criminal risks potentially associated with tax controls. We represent clients in all phases of proceedings before the tax administrator and courts.
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Tax structures and optimization
Our tax advisory services in the area of tax optimization primarily focus on creating tax efficient and legally sustainable business structures. We help our clients to analyse, create or restructure their national and cross-border corporate structures, including the assistance with establishment and management of companies in foreign jurisdictions (offshore companies).
UNIQUE COMBINATION OF LEGAL AND TAX SERVICES
We provide our clients with comprehensive legal and tax advice in the area of setting up protection and transfers of intellectual property rights (trademarks, patents, utility models, know-how). In the field of IT law, we provide legal and tax advice in the preparation of contractual documentation related to the development, servicing and licensing of software. Our lawyers and tax advisors also have extensive experience in setting up tax structures designed to optimize revenue from software development and licensing.
FUNDS, COLLECTIVE INVESTMENTS AND CRYPTOCURRENCIES
As one of the few legal and tax advisors in Slovakia, we have long been involved in the legal, tax and accounting regulation of collective investment. We provide comprehensive tax and legal advice in setting up and establishing domestic and cross-border fund structures (EuVECA, SICAV) with a focus on dealing with regulatory, tax and accounting risks of fund operation.
EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION PLANS AND SHARES
Our lawyers and tax advisors provide a package of legal and tax services related to the setting up and implementation of employee option plans (ESOP) in start-ups as well as established companies. Our advisory services include comprehensive legal and tax advice regarding the preparation of legal documentation for various types of employee shares (shares, stock options, shadow shares) in connection with the analysis and possible limitation of the tax impact resulting from the issue of employee shares.
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Grösslingová 5
811 09 Bratislava
Slovenská republika
+421 907 768 793
+421 918 953 897
info@highgate.sk