Litigation

The litigation agenda is one of the key practice areas of RELEVANS, with a strong team of experienced procedural lawyers. The specialized team represents both domestic and foreign clients before general courts, the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic, the European Court of Human Rights, and in arbitration proceedings as well.

The disputes in which RELEVANS represents its clients cover many areas of law. However, the law firm has gained most of its experience mainly by its practice in the area of ​​damages litigations, litigations related to protection of competition, protection of intellectual property, banking law, tax law, and financial law, protection of personality rights and reputation of legal entities, constitutional law and also administrative law. The law firm provides comprehensive legal coverage for the most challenging cases.

Our legal services include

• a thorough analysis of facts and evidence
• assessment of risks of the client’s legal status
• procedural strategy development
• consultations during the preparatory phase of the dispute resolution as well as during the ongoing proceedings
• negotiation and representation of the client in out-of-court dispute resolution
• drafting of all types of filings, including pre-trial notices, actions, proposals, statements, and ordinary as well as extraordinary remedies
• representation in proceedings before general courts, the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic, the European Court of Human Rights, as well as in arbitration proceedings
• assistance in enforcement of decisions

Selected reference litigation cases:

• representation of defendants in a dispute concerning invalidity of legal acts in a total value of more than EUR 584 million
• representation of Mr. M. Grund and Mr. R. Hrubý, the companies ADS Property and Carlton Property in a tangle of proceedings regarding the high-profile Carlton case (altogether more than 30 court, administrative or criminal proceedings – the most significant ones in the total value of cca. EUR 200 million)
• representation of one of the most significant Slovak banks in a dispute over determination of authenticity of a receivable amounting to more than EUR 166 million
• representation of the companies Železničná spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia and Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko being sued for payment of damages claims in the amount of more than EUR 90 million
• representation of the plaintiff Železničná spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia in proceedings over reviewing the legality of the procedure and decision of the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic, which imposed a fine of more than EUR 10 million
• representation of the defendant Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska in several court proceedings over damages, protection of personality rights, protection of reputation and compensation of non-material damage
• representation of the plaintiff MCH – Medical Care Holding (a shareholder of the already non-existent private health insurance company Európska zdravotná poisťovňa) in a dispute against the Slovak Republic for unpaid compensation for unconstitutional expropriation in the amount of the requested compensation with appurtenances of more than EUR 50 million
• representation of a bank in proceedings before the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic regarding the lodging of creditors’ (especially of banks’) claims to restructuring
• representation of a defendant in proceedings over determination of invalidity of legal acts and over determination of ownership of real estate property in the amount of more than 50 million EUR
• representation of a developer in several lawsuits with the City of Bratislava concerning the demolition of the Park kultúry a oddychu (Park of Culture and Rest) buildings, damages of more than 28 million EUR and return of unjust enrichment, as well as in the out-of-court settlement with the City
• representation of a plaintiff in court proceedings over damages in total of more than EUR 50 million who acquired receivables by means of assignment from the Slovnaft shareholders. The shareholders claimed to have suffered damage by the actions of Mol Hungarian Oil and Gas Public Limited Company in announcement of the mandatory takeover bid of Slovnaft
• representation of the plaintiff ČEZ Slovakia in a dispute over damages in a total amount of more than EUR 20 million caused by breach of the obligation to take off electric energy
• representation of a bank in proceedings before the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic in respect of lodging creditors’ (especially of banks’) claims to restructuring
• representation of an applicant in proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights for violation of the right to a fair trial
• representation of a creditor in a dispute over determination of authenticity of a receivable in bankruptcy in the amount of more than EUR 9 million
• representation of Poštová banka in a number of court proceedings as both plaintiff and defendant