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Stanislav Ďurica
Senior Associate
Stanislav Ďurica’s practice focuses on employment, general corporate, litigation and arbitration matters and intellectual property.
Stanislav advises Slovak and foreign multinational companies on all areas of individual employment law, in particular on hiring, restructuring, transactions, employee transfers, personnel adjustment measures, termination of employment and related disputes (especially when top management is involved).
He is also part of our Labor & Employment team, providing to our clients a new, innovative and competitive platform – Global Edge – which has substantially increased our client offering. This enables us to advise our multinational clients with little input from outside counsel going forwards, saving them both time and costs.
Stanislav has experience with providing clients with commercial advice in litigations and arbitrations, including those with international aspects. He has participated in a number of the largest due diligence processes in Slovakia and has prepared and reviewed a number of various legal documents, analyses and legal opinions. Moreover, he advised foreign multinational companies on all areas of industrial property law and especially in the law of trademarks, unfair competition, trade secrets law, trade name law and reputation protection of legal entities, in particular on questions of proceedings and disputes before the respective Slovak state authorities or EU authorities and courts, in transactions, registrations, oppositions, cancellations, licenses and other matters with respect to IP law in Slovakia, including disputes and settlements regarding unfair competition and infringement of IP rights.
Prior to joining the firm, Stanislav worked as an associate in the largest law office in Slovakia for more than 12 years.
Stanislav participated in the Social Affairs Committee of American Chamber of Commerce.
Stanislav is a member of the Slovak Bar Association. In addition, he represents the firm in the Civil Code Task Force Committee, the Employment and Social Affairs Committee and the Healthcare Committee of American Chamber of Commerce.
- Advising a global provider of electronic payment and transaction processing solutions for financial services institutions, retailers, service providers and individual consumers on various employment matters relating to employment matters of a company employee, including negotiation of terms of termination of employment of a top manager. In connection with termination of the top management employment position in the Slovak Republic he also advised on changes in corporate positions in the Czech Republic.
- Advising a top energy distributing/supply company operating on the territory of west Slovakia on corporate and corporate governance issues on a daily basis including drafting legal analyses and preparing comments to the commercial and corporate documents.
- Advising a British multinational consultancy, engineering and project management company on various commercial issues and corporate changes of its subsidiary located in the Slovak Republic. Advice included considering various aspects from the perspective of jurisdictions of the British and Czech companies from the group.
- Advising an HR central department of the UK-based largest global agency in marketing research on setting the correct data protection scheme within the group of various subsidiaries with respect to the cross-border flow and processing of personal data.
Education
- Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, JUDr., 2004
- Comenius University in Bratislava, Mgr., 2003
Admissions
- Slovak Republic, 2007
Memberships and Affiliations
Stanislav is a member of the Slovak Bar Association. In addition, he represents the firm in the Civil Code Task Force Committee, the Employment and Social Affairs Committee and the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce.
Languages
- Slovak
- Czech
- English
- Recommended in The Legal 500 EMEA 2017 for employment
- “Sabbatical leave in Slovakia”, AmCham Connection, November/December 2016 (co-authored).
- Konkurenčná činnosť zamestnanca ako dôvod výpovede (Employee Competitive Activity as a Reason for Termination of Employment), e-pravo.sk, May 2016.