Marián Masarik

Serving as a co-founder and the head of the M&A, Banking & Finance, Competition, and Corporate division at RELEVANS, Marián Masarik stands as one of the most authoritative transactional lawyers in the Slovak market. Backed by over 25 years of experience, the firm’s most financially significant mandates are directed under his oversight. Consistently recognized by international directories as a Leading Partner, his practice operates as the primary dealmaker and lead counsel for premier investment groups, financial institutions, and major developers.

Expertise

• High-value Mergers & Acquisitions, restructuring, joint ventures, and corporate governance;

• Projects and acquisition financing, syndicated loans, and securities offerings;

• Banking, insurance, and competition law, including merger control and anti-monopoly matters;

• Corporate Governance, Joint Ventures & Restructuring;

• Competition Law;

• Energy and infrastructure;

• Cross-Border Real Estate Transactions;

• Cross-border investments, EU regulatory compliance, and multi-jurisdictional transactions.

Work highlights

• Legal advice to the seller, the majority shareholder of 365.bank, in concluding an agreement with the Belgian group KBC Group, based on which KBC acquired a 98.45% stake in 365.bank worth 761 million EUR; the transaction was awarded "Deal of the Year" by Forbes magazine.

• Legal advice to the purchaser, in cooperation with the UK law firm Setfords Solicitors, in the acquisition of real estate in London with a value of approximately EUR 450 million;

• Legal advice to European institutions in connection with the acquisition of real estate in the center of Bratislava (in the form of lease/purchase) for the purposes of locating the European Parliament's first contact office, the European Commission representation and the interactive exhibition "EUROPA EXPERIENCE" operated by the European Parliament in Bratislava;

• Legal advice and negotiations in the preparation of a shareholders’ agreement for a vertically integrated energy company;

• Legal advice to a bondholder holding bonds with a value of EUR 135 million, in connection with the exercise of bondholder rights arising from the terms and conditions of the bond issue, including representation in negotiations with representatives of the issuer and in the assessment of the issuer’s requests;

• Legal advice in connection with the establishment of a joint venture bringing together companies operating electronic toll collection systems in the Czech Republic and Slovakia;

• Legal advice to a major holding company active in the agricultural primary production market in the acquisition of a trader in agricultural products and plant commodities;

• Legal advice to the borrower in connection with the financing of the construction of the first residential skyscraper in Slovakia;

• Legal advice to the seller in the sale of a company operating in the Czech Republic and engaged in the production of electricity.

Legal advice to the seller, the majority shareholder of 365.bank, in concluding an agreement with the Belgian group KBC Group, based on which KBC acquired a 98.45% stake in 365.bank worth 761 million EUR; the transaction was awarded "Deal of the Year" by Forbes magazine;

Legal advice to the purchaser, in cooperation with the UK law firm Setfords Solicitors, in the acquisition of real estate in London with a value of approximately EUR 450 million;

Legal advice to European institutions in connection with the acquisition of real estate in the center of Bratislava (in the form of lease/purchase) for the purposes of locating the European Parliament's first contact office, the European Commission representation and the interactive exhibition "EUROPA EXPERIENCE" operated by the European Parliament in Bratislava;

Legal advice and negotiations in the preparation of a shareholders’ agreement for a vertically integrated energy company;

Legal advice to a bondholder holding bonds with a value of EUR 135 million, in connection with the exercise of bondholder rights arising from the terms and conditions of the bond issue, including representation in negotiations with representatives of the issuer and in the assessment of the issuer’s requests;

Legal advice in connection with the establishment of a joint venture bringing together companies operating electronic toll collection systems in the Czech Republic and Slovakia;

Legal advice to a major holding company active in the agricultural primary production market in the acquisition of a trader in agricultural products and plant commodities;

Legal advice to the borrower in connection with the financing of the construction of the first residential skyscraper in Slovakia;

Legal advice to the seller in the sale of a company operating in the Czech Republic and engaged in the production of electricity.