Dáša Labašová is a Managing Associate in the Bratislava office. She focuses on M&A, real estate, banking and finance and corporate law. She also advises on a wide range of mandates in the area of insurance law, labour law, regulatory and compliance, as well as data privacy and corporate law.

Dáša has more than six years of experience in advising clients in the automotive, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, media and technology, real estate and construction, logistics, and energy sectors, both on corporate governance matters and on complex projects involving corporate reorganisations or mergers and acquisitions. She also has significant experience in project financing.

Dáša has advised on many M&A transactions involving acquisition of real estate portfolios. She has also gained broad experience in corporate governance and other corporate day-to-day operations. She has assisted clients in drafting, reviewing and negotiating of various agreements, such as lease agreements for office premises, service contracts.

Moreover, she has advised numerous clients in relation to employment issues, including drafting employment contracts, internal labour directives, and other labour issues.

RECENT ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDE ADVISING

M&A AND CORPORATE

• PRO PARTNERS HOLDING, a major investment group operating in the CEE region in the field of private equity, real estate and finance, on its acquisition of a minority share in AQUAPARK Poprad, a company operating the AquaCity Poprad waterpark resort, from Letheby & Sons Limited
• GLOBAL ATTRACTIONS SPI AB (GASPI), part of the Accent Equity portfolio, on its acquisition of HPS Group
• OTP BANK, a Hungary-based regional financial group, on all aspects of the sale of its 99.44% shares in its Slovak operations to the Belgian KBC Group
• ENERGY FINANCING TEAM on local corporate compliance - corporate due diligence, registration in the public Register of Public Sector Partners and related legal advice
• AIP ASSET MANAGEMENT, a Seoul-based asset manager, and London real estate investment manager THE VALESCO GROUP on the EUR 125 million acquisition of the newly developed landmark Twin City Tower in Bratislava from HB Reavis

REAL ESTATE, CONSTRUCTION & PLANNING

• GLP, a global investment management firm specialising in logistics, technology investments, real estate, and private equity funds, in connection with acquisition of Goodman's CEE logistics business in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary
• LIFESTYLE LOGISTIK on all aspects of the development of the logistic centre in north-western Slovakia, including drafting, negotiation and revision of contracts for work, advice on leasing of warehouse premises, property management issues as well as ad-hoc resolution of disputes with tenants, suppliers and other parties
• AIP ASSET MANAGEMENT, a Seoul-based asset manager, and London real estate investment manager THE VALESCO GROUP on the EUR 125 million acquisition of the newly developed landmark Twin City Tower in Bratislava from HB Reavis
• WOOD & COMPANY, a leading investment bank, on the acquisition of the prominent business center BBC5 in Bratislava from Heitman Real Estate Fund
• MAGNA POWERTRAIN on the acquisition of the brownfield production facility in Kechnec (Eastern Slovakia) from Getrag Ford Transmissions System

BANKING, FINANCE & CAPITAL MARKETS

• BUSINESS LEASE GROUP, a car-fleet management services provider, and its CEE subsidiaries, on a EUR 242 million syndicated cross-border refinancing loan covering the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia
• ALLIED IRISH BANKS on Slovak law aspects of financing provided to HWM group for the acquisition of the business and assets of the Slovak subsidiary of the software company Koger Inc.
• OTP BANK, a Hungary-based regional financial group, on all aspects of the sale of its 99.44% shares in its Slovak operations to the Belgian KBC Group
• YOUPLUS INSURANCE INTERNATIONAL and MYLIFE LEBENSVERSICHERUNG, members of SWISS INSUREVOLUTION PARTNERS insurance group, on the acquisition of the Czech and Slovak life and non-life insurance contract portfolios from Basler Sachversicherungs-AG and Basler Lebensversicherungs-AG
• A SYNDICATE OF INTERNATIONAL BANKS led by UNICREDIT BANK and including Tatra banka, ČSOB and HYPO-BANK Burgenland, on a EUR 175 million club loan provided to HB Reavis for the construction of Nivy Station (Stanica Nivy)

EDUCATION

• 2016: Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Faculty of Law, Master of Law (Mgr.)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Slovak Bar Association

LANGUAGES

Slovak, English

PUBLICATIONS

• Corporate Acquisitions and Mergers in Slovak Republic, Second Edition, Wolters Kluwer, 2022 (co-author)