IT law, tech law and intellectual property

We provide our clients with comprehensive legal and tax advice on setting up protection and transfer of intellectual property rights (trademarks, patents, utility models, know-how).

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We provide our clients with comprehensive legal and tax advice in the areas of IT law, tech law, data protection and the protection and transfer of intellectual property rights(trademarks, copyrights, registered and unregistered intellectual property rights).

In the field of IT law, we provide legal and tax advice in the preparation of contractual documentation related to software development, servicing and licensing. Our lawyers and tax advisors are equally experienced in setting up tax structures designed to optimize revenue from software development and licensing. We also provide comprehensive legal advice on the regulation of the processing of personal data.

We are one of the few in the Slovak Republic to provide clients with comprehensive tax and legal advice for companies, services and products using AI and blockchain technology. We provide comprehensive advisory services in the area of regulation and taxation of cryptocurrencies, setting up and establishing fund structures investing in virtual currencies, as well as in the area of regulatory analysis, design and implementation of financing structures for companies using tokenization of services, tangible and intangible assets (ICO, UTO, STO).

In 2019, we organized our first conference aimed at IT companies. In November 2022, we organized a unique two-day conference for IT digital and technology companies, where we addressed selected legal and tax topics related to the IT, digital and tech segments in a practical way, including tax-tax optimization, “employing freelancers”, investor entry into the company, setting up a holding company, automated accounting, ESOP structures or scaling the business abroad. In addition, we regularly publish, blog and give interviews on IT topics. We provide a number of training courses and webinars as well – for example, here, here or here .

In the 2022 Law Firm of the Year competition, we were awarded the highly recommended firm for Telecommunications and Information Technology Law and the recommended firm for Intellectual Property Law.

We advise clients in the areas of IT and tech law, data protection and intellectual property, in particular in the following areas:

  • Preparation of IT contract documentation for software development, service and licensing;
  • Preparation of IT contractual documentation with software developers (employees, contractors) also with regard to the treatment of the risks of the shvarcsystem;
  • Setting up ESOP structures in IT and technology firms;
  • Taxation of income from the sale and licensing of software;
  • Setting up tax structures designed to optimize revenue from software development and licensing;
  • Domestic and European trademark registrations;
  • Preparation of documentation on the handling of intellectual property rights (copyrights, domains);
  • Patent box and supercomputing;
  • Advice on data protection regulation (GDPR, national legislation);
  • Preparation of documentation on the processing and handling of personal data (privacy policy, cookie policy, personal data processing contracts);

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Law & Tax
Tomas Demo
tomas.demo@hg.amcef.com

Accounting
Peter Šopinec
peter.sopinec@hg.amcef.com

Crypto
Peter Varga
peter.varga@hg.amcef.com

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