Weinhold Legal, Divjak, Topic & Bahtijarevic, and Selih & partnerji have advised on the merger of entities within the Olympus group, as Croatia's Olympus d.o.o and Slovenia's OLYMPUS SLOVENIJA d.o.o. merged into the Czech entity, Olympus Czech Group, s.r.o., clen koncernu. The merger was registered on 1 March 2017.
Selih & partnerji worked as Slovenian lawyers on the transaction, along with Weinhold Legal as the Czech lawyers, and Divjak, Topic & Bahtijarevic as the Croatian lawyers. The Weinhold Legal team in the Czech Republic was led by Managing Attorney Ondrej Havlicek and Partner Martin Lukas, the DTB team in Croatia by Lawyer Martina Kalamiza and Trainee Daniela Marasovic. Selih & partnerji team was led by Partner Natasa Pipan Nahtigal and Senior Associate Jera Majzelj, both from the M&A practice area.
Tax services were provided by EY under the lead of Rene Kulinsky and Martin Hladky.