Ján Kapec

Managing Associate

Email:
jan.kapec@havelpartners.sk

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Ján Kapec specialises in public procurement, real estate and construction, litigation, arbitration, administrative justice and law and civil law

In public procurement, Ján has advised clients including contracting authorities and contracting entities, as well as tenderers and candidates.

In real estate and construction, Ján specialises primarily in real estate purchases, sales and leases.

Before joining our law firm, he worked for one year as a legal assistant at a prominent law firm in Bratislava, where he specialised in civil law, commercial law, family law, corporate law, church restitutions, and the law on cheques.

Membership in professional associations

Slovak Bar Association

Languages
Slovak, Czech, English

Education

Comenius University, Faculty of Law, Bratislava (2010), Mgr.

  • comprehensive legal advice to a major international company engaged in construction and operation of PPP hospitals around the world in connection with the company’s participation in a public tender (competition dialogue) organised by the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic for the construction and 30-years operation (concession) of a new University Hospital in Bratislava
  • comprehensive legal advice to one of the largest construction firms in the Czech and Slovak markets in connection with the company’s participation in a public tender (competition dialogue) organised by the Ministry of Transport, Construction and Regional Development of the Slovak Republic for the construction and 30-years operation (concession) of motorway D4 and speedway R7 (bypass of Bratislava)
  • comprehensive legal advice to the Ministry of Transport and Construction of the Slovak Republic on the selection of an operator (concessionaire) of an intermodal transport terminal in Slovakia
  • comprehensive legal advice to a major international company in connection with its participation in a public tender for the supply of twin-engine multi-purpose helicopters organised by the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic
  • comprehensive legal advice to a foreign construction company on the potential ban on its participation in a public tender and on the related judicial proceedings
  • legal advice to a major energy company relating to its obligation to act in compliance with the Public Procurement Act when awarding public contracts for supply of products, services or works
  • legal advice to an international company on the application of public contract revision procedures (preparing objections, appeals, administrative petitions), representing the client at hearings before the Public Procurement Office and before administrative courts, and in connection with the drafting and filing of an administrative action regarding examination of lawfulness of the decision of the Public Procurement Office
  • comprehensive legal advice to clients relating to registration in the Register of Public Sector Partners
  • participating in the work of a legal team providing comprehensive legal advice to Prvý realitný fond managed by IAD Investments in connection with acquisition of the shopping centre Laugarício (largest 2016 real estate transaction in Slovakia ranked by TREND magazine as the real estate deal of the year)
  • comprehensive legal advice to a shopping centre operator relating to the full operation of the shopping centre (drafting contracts with tenants, representing the client in court proceedings, real estate sales)
  • representing a major energy company in court proceedings regarding compensation for a forced limitation of an ownership right
  • legal advice on legal Due Diligence regarding the construction and operation of photovoltaic power plants in Slovakia
  • legal advice to a construction company relating to collecting outstanding debts arising under several contracts for work
  • legal advice to an international company relating to representing the company in administrative proceedings before Slovak public authorities

Press releases

With two new equity partners and three partners, HAVEL & PARTNERS internally promotes 17 lawyers overall
Another wave of internal promotions marks a follow-up to the largest Czech-Slovak law firm’s succes… read more »

Publications and newsletters

Impact of the extraordinary situation in the Slovak Republic on consumer-supplier relations [SK version]
Authors: Štěpán Štarha, Ondřej Majer, Ján Kapec Coronavirus is now the biggest topic affecting… read more »

Articles and Interviews

Procurement of quality legal services by the State - science fiction or reality?
Authors: Štěpán Štarha, Ján Kapec Currently, the topic discussed in Slovakia is the efficiency o… read more »

Amendment to act on register of public sector partners
A large amendment to Act No. 315/2016 Coll., on the Register of Public Sector Partners and on Amend… read more »