Ketler & Partners, member of Karanovic

Fee-earners: 18

Languages: Bosnian, Croatian, English, German, Serbian, Slovenian

Firm Overview:

Ketler & Partners, is a full-service law firm operating in Slovenia, and member of Karanovic, an association of law firms established under Swiss law. Apart from providing top-tier legal and commercial advisory in Slovenia, Ketler & Partners have a substantial regional reach as a member of Karanovic. Ketler & Partners, member of Karanovic offer a wide spectrum of legal services covering everything from corporate mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance matters, public-private-partnerships (PPP) as well as real estate and infrastructure projects, to general aspects of business law in Slovenia in relation to day-to-day operations from clients.

The team is led by Marko Ketler, Senior Partner. He has over eleven years of experience in advising clients on M&A and restructuring transactions, and is actively involved in several significant M&A, banking and finance and restructuring projects in the country.

Ketler & Partners has advised on several of the most significant deals that have taken place in the local markets. The experience of its corporate team ensures that the firm has the capacity and the personnel to successfully conclude the most complex transactions in a timely manner. Transactions such as joint ventures, management buyouts, leveraged buyouts, privatisations, restructurings, takeover bids, auctions and share sales are regularly handled by its mergers and acquisitions specialists.

Ketler & Partners, member of Karanovic regularly supports clients in dealing with M&A transactions, financing (both refinancing as well as acquisition financing) and transactions regarding the NPLs, i.e. disposal and acquisition of credit/ deposit portfolios, regulatory notifications, transfer of collateral and advising in relation to servicing of such claims.

Main Areas of Practice:

Mergers & Acquisitions:

Cooperating with corporate lawyers based in six jurisdictions, a seamless, efficient and consistently professional level of advice is provided on cross-border transactions. The corporate and M&A team is recognised by the market as the highly capable service provider for corporate clients and its work has included advising on significant corporate acquisitions and privatisations in the market.

Competition:

The competition team offers a complete range of competition law related services. The team has represented major multinationals in the various competition matters in the market and have also advised many smaller local companies whose domestic growth, commercial practices or cross border trade expose them to potential competition infringements.

Banking & Finance:

The firm is recognised as having proactively shaped the emerging trends in local practice,and has been involved in some of the most significant NPL transactions in the country and wider region.

Dispute Resolution:

The team has a strong reputation as leading practitioners, acknowledged for taking a commercial approach to resolving a wide range of business disputes.

Intellectual Property:

The IP team brings together leading intellectual property lawyers, commercial and corporate lawyers, to provide optimal solutions for obtaining and enforcing their IP rights and regularly advise on the IP related aspects of acquisitions, copyright ownership, exploitation, licensing and legal protection in cases of copyright infringement actions.

Real Estate:

The real estate team has concrete knowledge of the practicalities of the regional markets, and the expertise and capacity to handle large-scale complex transactions. With a wealth of experience including hospitality, infrastructure and energy related real estate projects, the firm are perfectly placed to take you through the entire cycle of your real estate investment.

Employment:

The firm’s practised and highly-regarded employment lawyers are experienced in addressing the day-to-day requirements of commercial entities, including immigration requirements, entitlements due to employees, tax efficient salary and benefit structures, leaves, disciplinary measures and individual and group terminations. The team regularly provides assistance in drafting and negotiating employment agreements, developing internal HR practices and procedures and assessing guaranteed entitlements under the law.

Clients:

The team represents corporate clients, multinational companies, banks, financial institutions, private equity firms, international and domestic companies.

PRACTICE AREAS:

Banking & Finance

Commercial & Healthcare Competition

Corporate

Dispute Resolution

Employment

Energy & Natural Resources

Intellectual Property

Real Estate

Telecoms, Media & Technology