Peter Oravec is a partner at the Bratislava office of Freshfields who specialises in corporate, competition, mergers and acquisitions and energy law. He received a master’s degree in law from Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Law and holds a Doctor of Laws degree (JUDr.) from Comenius University in Bratislava. He worked for 10 years in the Bratislava office of a leading English law firm as an associate. Peter is fluent in Slovak, English and Czech. He is an attorney at law (advokát) of the Slovak bar. Peter has been recommended as a leading practitioner in the Competion/Antitrust sector and Corporate and Commercial by Chambers Europe, Europe’s leading guide to lawyers for business clients as well as other important listings directories.
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The Department of Concentrations of the Slovak Antimonopoly Office (AMO) recently accepted for proceedings and later also cleared the acquisition of the company Alinea Holding GmbH (part of the BAWAG Bank - Austria) by the company Pa-Zweiundfünfzigste WTP Beteiligungsverwaltungs GmbH (part of (...)
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In September 2005 Tesco and Carrefour announced an asset swap deal involving stores and operations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Taiwan. In Slovakia the transaction involved four stores of Carrefour to be acquired by Tesco. Soon after the notification of the whole European part of the (...)
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The second instance body of the Slovak Antimonopoly Office (AMO) rejected the appeal of the Slovak dominant rail cargo transportation company ZSSK Cargo Slovakia against the first instance decision of the AMO regarding abuse of its dominant position and confirmed the fine imposed on ZSSK Cargo (...)
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In early February 2006 the Slovak Government approved the strategic partner for the Bratislava and Kosice Airports - the consortium “TwoOne” which should acquire a 66-percent stake in both airports. It is important to highlight that one of the partners of the consortium TwoOne is also the (...)
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In January 2006 the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic (“AMO”) published a decision of the first instance (adopted in December 2005) fining several Slovak and foreign construction companies a total of almost SKK 1.5 billion (approx. EUR 40 million) for alleged bid-rigging. In (...)
