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IVAN WERNER

  • Senior Consultant;
  • Born Zilina, Slovak Republic, 1946;
  • Admitted to the Slovak Bar in 1991.


    Education:

  • Comenius University School of Law, Bratislava, Slovak Republic (Graduated in 1973).


    Experience:

  • City Government of Bratislava, 1973-1974;
  • Cable Administration Bratislava, 1974-1976;
  • Prefmonta Construction Company Bratislava, 1976-1988;
  • State Arbitration of the Capital City of Slovak Republic Bratislava, 1988-1990;
  • State Arbitration of the Slovak Republic, 1990-1991;
  • Legislative Section of National Council of the Slovak Republic (Slovak Parliament), 1990-1991;
  • Law Office Blaha, Erben, Werner, 1991-1994;
  • Founded Werner & Partners, 1994;
  • Werner & Partners, 1994 - 2010;
  • Werner & Anger since 2010.


    Former member:

  • Slovak Bar Association (member of the SBA Examination Commission for Commercial Law), 1991-2006;
  • Advisory Committee for Appeals of the Slovak Republic's Office for Financial Markets (Chairman of the committee), 2002-2005;
  • Slovak Bar Association (member of the team of SBA preparing the new Civil Code, member of the Committee of SBA for Commercial Law), 1992-2004;
  • Arbitration Court of the Association of Leasing Companies of the Slovak Republic, 1998-1999;
  • Committee of Experts of the Slovak Bankruptcy Institute, 1997-1999;
  • Slovak Republic's Ministry of Justice's Special Team for the preparation of a new law on arbitration proceedings, 1995;
  • Special Committee of the Czechoslovak Federal Parliament for the preparation of the new Commercial Code, 1990-1991;
  • Special Team of Legal Experts formed by the State Arbitration of the Czechoslovak Republic for the preparation of the new Economic Code, 1986;
  • Special Team of Legal Experts formed by the State Arbitration of the Czechoslovak Republic for the preparation of the new law on construction deliveries, 1984-1986.


    Author:

  • Co-author of the Slovak chapter of the publication Economy and Law in Eastern Europe, published by the publishing house C.H.BECK, Munich in 2003;
  • Numerous articles on business law published in the following magazines and law reviews: Arbitrážní praxe, Ekonomika stavebníctva, Hospodárske noviny, EMP, Trend, Profit, as well as several others.


    Languages:

  • Slovak
  • Czech
  • English
  • German
  • Russian


    Main practice areas:

  • Business Contracts
  • Civil Law
  • Commercial and Civil Litigation
  • Bankruptcy Law
  • Banking and Financial Law
  • Labor Law
  • Real Estate and Construction Law
  • Administrative Law
  • International Trade and Arbitration
  • Privatization