HAVEL PARTNERS' transactional team, which is the largest and most experienced in Central Europe with almost 80 lawyers, has been expanded to include Petra Čorba Stark as counsel. In the advisory group that, thanks to the skills and performance of its experts, has long been ranked at the top of the Slovak, Czech and Central European legal market in terms of the number of completed transactions, Petra will focus primarily on the areas of M&A and corporate law, including venture capital.
Petra specialises in acquisitions and divestitures of companies, corporate law, and capital markets. In the area of acquisitions and divestitures, Petra has been involved in a number of transactions, mainly in the telecommunications, transport, energy, manufacturing and private equity sectors. In the area of corporate law, she specialises particularly in corporate reorganisations and transformations, advising on the organisation of general meetings and shareholders’ rights, as well as corporate governance issues. In the area of capital markets, Petra focuses primarily on securities dispositions and takeover bids.
“Transaction advisory has been our flagship service since the firm was founded in 2001. Thanks to the systematic development of professional know-how, a team of top lawyers, but also a proactive and human approach, we have been able to complete more than 800 transactions worth EUR 32 billion over the last 16 years. I am delighted that our unique M&A and corporate team will be complemented to include Petra Čorba Stark, who has gained more than twenty years of experience in major law firms, and for the last five years has been leading the corporate team of an international law firm in Slovakia,” commented Jaroslav Havel, managing partner of the firm, on Petra’s joining the firm.
Petra Čorba Stark earned a Master of Laws degree from the Faculty of Law of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. Prior to joining Havel & Partners in 2022, Petra worked in a major international law firm, leading the corporate team and specialising in transactional advisory and commercial law, including public procurement. Prior to that, she also worked in a major Slovak law firm as in-house counsel for the largest petrochemical company in Slovakia.
The prestigious international rating agency Legal 500 ranks Petra as one of the best female lawyers, recognizing her experience in M&A, innovative corporate restructurings, complex commercial cases, public procurement and state aid as a next-generation partner in the areas of commercial law, M&A, and corporate law.
