7. 5. 2025
Renáta Konštiaková Newly Minted Attorney!
We are very proud to announce that Renáta Konštiaková passed her bar exam with honours and is now fully admitted to the Slovak bar as an attorney. Renáta joined our Bratislava office as paralegal in 2016 and became junior lawyer in 2018. We are delighted that from now on she is working with us as an attorney.
Renáta is an outstanding member of our team. Since her graduation from Comenius University in Bratislava, she has participated in several cross-border transactions. Renáta specialises in corporate, financing, insolvency and has extensive experience in AML and CFT.
Neuigkeiten & Publikationen
Conflicts of Interest: A Three-Layer Problem with Real Money at Stake
Babiš’s conflict-of-interest problem is not just politics – it is a three-layer legal framework, with the sharpest impact coming from the pub-lic-money firewall in Sections 4b and 4c. We explain why shifting Agrofert into trust-type structures still raises doubts, and why the Hartenberg arm remains a key part of the story. A brisk read on the limits of Czech legislation and why the European Commission’s next steps may keep this issue alive.
A Cabinet Minister: To Be or Not To Be?
A Czech ministerial nomination turns into a constitutional stress test: can the President refuse the Prime Minister’s pick in a parliamentary system? The Filip Turek saga - ending in a “government commissioner” workaround - raises hard questions about institutional boundaries, incompatibility rules, and the rule of law.
The Digital Hallucination: A CZK 25,000 Lesson in AI Legal Ethics
Constitutional Court penalizes an attorney for submission based on "hallucinated" AI-generated content.
