The rapid pace of technological developments across many sectors demands increasingly knowledgeable and tech-savvy legal professionals. Today’s technology lawyers must delve deeply into product design, data flows, subcontractor relations, and operational processes—far beyond a basic understanding of commercial relations and market practices.
In response to these shifts, we work closely with our clients’ technical and development teams, and management, to enhance our expertise and ensure the accuracy of our advice. Our experience spans a diverse array of industries, including telecom, energy, industrial manufacturing, defence, transportation, and fintech, enabling us to navigate the complex technology landscape effectively.
Technology
Our technology practice covers extensive transactional work, funding and investments, intellectual property, employment issues, regulation, and compliance. We also assist clients with domestic and international public procurement contracts, technology integration, customer trial frameworks, and new product development and design.
IP
Our intellectual property services cover the entire lifecycle of innovation and creativity in a commercial setting. This includes setting up frameworks for IP creation, protection, and management, handling IP acquisition, disposal, sharing, and licensing, and representing clients in IP-related litigations and disputes. Our extensive experience with clients in the pharmaceutical sector and technological areas enhances our ability to support broader engagements, including M&A and real estate, with comprehensive IP expertise.
Privacy
Privacy and data protection are relevant to all sectors. Our firm provides privacy expertise to support all practices, addressing a wide spectrum of data protection issues. This includes developing compliance strategies, assessing processing activities, and implementing redesigns. We liaise with data subjects and authorities to ensure compliance and offer guidance on best practices. Our collaboration with technical security advisors enhances our capacity to deliver informed and practical guidance.
Service Highlights
Technology
Seller on the sale of SPINEA manufacturing group, one of the world’s top three in its sector, to the US-listed conglomerate Timken.
Timken, a global industrial leader in engineered bearings and power transmission products, in connection with the acquisition of GGB Bearing Technology, a division of Enpro Industries, Inc.
Slovenské elektrárne on the development and completion of a nuclear power plant.
Slovenské elektrárne in connection with the power uprate of the Mochovce nuclear power plant units 1 & 2.
SEC Technologies on landmark procurement contracts for the sale of their unique active stand-off detectors of chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals to the Slovak Republic, and to armed forces and civil services across Europe and overseas.
Slovak heat technology company on a full suite of contractual terms for the installation, operation, and maintenance of their innovative mobile units, which generate heat from renewable sources and facilitate hot-swapping with existing customer heat supply technologies.
IP
Zentiva on the transferability and re-registration of hundreds of patent rights, trademarks, domain names, software licenses, and other intellectual property rights relating to pharmaceutical products in over 50 countries.
LX Hausys Ltd., part of the LX Corporation group, on international trademark registration issues related to their investment in a Slovak automotive company.
GLP on structuring and contracting various layers of IP licenses and sublicenses for project documentation arrangements, including proprietary, customer-dedicated, and mixed usage.
Slovak technology manufacturer on structuring employee and external contracts and organizational arrangements for an R&D department to ensure correct creation, appropriation, and protection of in-house IP, including patentable inventions.
Gunpowder on various licensing and copyright protection issues, including representation in IP infringement disputes in court.
Privacy
Slovenské elektrárne on GDPR compliance management, including the preparation of internal GDPR documentation, integration with information security regulations, and redesigning processing activities. Guidance on intra-group arrangements, such as operating shared services centres and supporting subsidiaries.
Transpetrol on managing GDPR compliance, revising internal data protection documentation to meet new GDPR standards, and alignment with other internal policies (e.g. governance, incident policy).
International pharmaceutical company on establishing internal procedures for the processing of employee personal data and ensuring compliance with data transfers to third-party processors.
US multinational technology conglomerate on assessment of legislation and procedures in Slovakia concerning private enforcement of the Digital Markets Act.
One of the world’s largest cosmetics companies on personal data processing in Slovakia and cross-border, providing guidance on data transfers and GDPR compliance within a supranational company network.
