Legal support for your business
We will help you solve any business-related legal issue connected to Slovak legal environment
We are Berník & Partneri
We are a Slovak law firm registered in Slovak Bar Association focused on legal services in the area of commercial law, labour law and other areas of law related to business.
We have especially rich experience in corporate legal issues, commercial contracts as well as resolution of disputes, including those of trans-border nature in general courts and arbitration tribunals.
As we have been providing complex legal support to major local export-oriented group with foreign capital shares and affiliate companies abroad for more than 10 years, we are fully qualified to provide legal advice on all the issues, resulting from corporate life and business activities of even complicated corporate structures involving special areas of legislation such as M&A, collective bargaining, corporate governance, transfer pricing, intellectual property, transport law etc.
Foreign language skills
Our language skills involve communication and review of legal documents in English, German and Russian as well as legal document drafting in English.
Modern technology
Use of modern technologies such as electronic signature, document automation, document and task management tools save our time and minimize costs of the client.
Experience in international business
Rich experience in international business as well as established cooperation with partner lawyers abroad enables us to handle cross-border cases effectively.
Our clients are such companies as
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Latest news
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Contestability of legal acts in German insolvency proceedings (Insolvenzanfechtung)
Many companies (including Slovak ones) operating on the German market have experienced a shock in recent years when they received a letter from a German insolvency administrator calling on them to return monetary benefits paid to them for the supply of goods or services by their German contractual partner, on whose assets insolvency proceedings were later opened.
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Liability for loss of consignment in "phantom carriage" (case study)
Defense against filed damage claim resulting from loss of consignment | Collection of claims of the carrier / forwarder from arranged transportations
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Possibilities of verifying the financial situation of a Slovak entity from publicly available sources
Loss of liquidity or the insolvency of business partners is one of the most significant business risks ever. At present, this risk is aggravated by the COVID - 19 pandemic, which brings about changes in both the economic and political environment often resulting in debtors inability to pay their debts properly and on time.
What others say
A.P. Buzamet, Senior Lawyer, Bierens Incasso Advocaten
The office of BERNÍK & Partneri has proven to be a very reliable partner of Bierens. They have proven their efficiency and decisiveness in our debt collection cases and beyond. Always glad to assist and willing to go the extra mile.
Marian Slivos, CEO, CHEMOSVIT CHEDOS, s.r.o.
BERNÍK & partneri has been our choice for many years. We appreciate most their experience in the specific area of international road transport and forwarding. We entrusted to them legal collection of our receivables from international transport within Europe, where we record high success rate and dynamics of the process. Besides that, they have successfully represented us in several complicated legal disputes triggered by damage events in transport of goods, which posed a risk of great losses to our company.
Jaroslav Mervart, CEO, CHEMOSVIT, a.s.
In the course of many years, we got used to high level of legal support provided by BERNIK & partners, especially in the area of commercial and labour law. As CHEMOSVIT Group exports more than 80 % of its products abroad, the ability of the law firm to analyse and review contracts in English, German and Russian as well as to actively communicate in these languages is particularly important for us. We use their advice in other specific areas such as corporate governance or issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We highly appreciate almost incredible flexibility of service, resulting in instant reactions to our often-unplanned requests. All of the above, together with transparent reporting, completes the image of a modern law firm you can rely on!
Ján Drobný, president, BK ISKRA SVIT
Our basketball club has been cooperating with BERNÍK & partneri for some years. The cooperation works on high level, the law firm has a very professional attitude and approaches our problems promptly and actively. "Guys" like sport, they do the job free of charge! We highly appreciate that this law firm has been our partner on such basis.
David Toparkus, Rechtsanwalt, Bonn, Germany
I have been cooperating with Mr. Peter Berník and his colleagues from BERNÍK & partners for more than a decade. We have worked on numerous international cases and business transactions, in different roles. Professionality, responsiveness and quick orientation in issues with international reach makes them a reliable partner for international business cases related to Slovak legal environment.
Andrea Benetton
If you have a business in Slovakia and you have to solve a commercial dispute, I would like to suggest you the services of Bernik & partners. I have had first hand experience because of an unfair term in a contract and they have solved the issue in a month and the final terms of the settlement was well below my expectations.