Slovak Republic
Customised legal solutions for one of Central Europe’s growth tigers.
The Slovak Republic has great opportunities for investors: a competitive tax system, rapidly growing infrastructure, harmonised investment incentives and high innovation potential for R&D projects. The experts at Wolf Theiss Bratislava can help your business harness the country’s growing success in export and investments.
Our team of lawyers use their specialised legal experience and industry knowledge to help our clients achieve their business goals in both the Slovak Republic and throughout the wider region.
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Why Wolf Theiss Bratislava
Our dynamic team in Bratislava has a wide base of industry expertise in the country’s key sectors. Combined with local knowledge of regulatory and administrative bodies and sharp business acumen, they can support your goals in the country’s growing markets.
“Advises a range of primarily international clients on their Slovak business operations, offering transactional, corporate restructuring and general commercial support. Strong in cross-border mandates across CEE, working closely with the firm’s regional office network. Offers related experience in employment and dispute resolution to give full coverage of corporate issues. The firm is particularly active in the finance and energy sectors, but also has a notable presence in the manufacturing, insurance and real estate industries.”
– Chambers Global
“Wolf Theiss has a strong financial and corporate practice in Slovakia. Its close cooperation with network offices provides it with transactional support on cross border mandates and referral works. The firm is also favoured by Austrian clients active in Slovakia.”
– IFLR1000
„A team of highly qualified lawyers with an international approach and problem-solving attitude to support our clients“.
– Katarína Matulníková, Bratislava Managing Partner
“The firm’s corporate team has developed a strong restructuring and insolvency practice over the years.”
– IFLR1000
“One client states: ‘they are very efficient and they always provide up-to-date services.'”
– Chambers Europe
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:- Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
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