Bratislava—Dentons announces the promotion of two new counsel in Bratislava – Miroslava Ješíková and Linda Mendelová.

Miroslava Ješíková is a counsel in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group and the Real Estate Practice group. She has more than 15 years of experience and focuses her practice on dispute resolution, criminal representation, commercial law, and real estate law. She advised in the successful representation of the largest private TV company in Slovakia in criminal proceedings concerning the forgery of €68 million of promissory notes and obstruction of justice. She is advising the Ministry of the Slovak Republic in challenging the damaging transactions of businessman Ladislav Bašternák, who was found guilty of tax and insurance evasion. She devotes her work also to pro bono advising, such as advising the non-profit organization Spoločnosť Jaromíra Krejcara on saving and restoring the functionalist Machnáč spa house in Trenčianske Teplice.

Linda Mendelová is a counsel in the Employment practice group. She has more than 15-years’  experience of advising in employment law, regulatory and corporate law matters. She advises clients on their ongoing day-to-day employment law matters, on terminations of employees or top managers, on posting of employees and their transfer, and represents clients at employment-related court cases. She also actively advises companies operating in Slovakia in various fields of industry relating to regulatory, compliance, corporate, employment and immigration law matters. She is continuously advising clients on ongoing legal updates in the field of employment law on measures taken by the Slovak authorities relating to the COVID-19 outbreak in Slovakia. In the commercial field, she provided Nissei Europe, a global manufacturer of injection molding machines, molds, auto-molding systems, and measuring instruments, with ongoing legal advice in various fields of law in connection with setting up its subsidiary in Slovakia.

Peter Kubina, Slovak Managing Partner, commented on the appointments: “We have an exceptional year behind us, which required from all of us unprecedented commitment, and often sacrifice, and these promotions are testimony to that. Congratulations to both of them for making an impressive leap forward and developing their legal and business expertise. Our ambition is to become the leading law firm on the Slovak market, and the continuous development of our people is our commitment.”

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