Čechová & Partners is a leading law firm specialising in providing expert legal advisory services to the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry in Slovakia. Our expertise covers medicinal products, medical devices, dietetic foodstuffs, food supplements and animal health products. Trusted by many innovative pharmaceutical companies operating in the Slovak market, we also advise companies managing generic and biosimilar portfolios. In addition, we assist international companies without a permanent presence in Slovakia, as well as market access agencies, marketing representatives of foreign pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of medical devices.
We offer comprehensive legal support covering corporate governance, contractual negotiations, employment law and specialised areas such as pricing and reimbursement strategies for medicinal products and medical devices. We also have significant experience in negotiating managed entry agreements, which are crucial for market access and we have participated in the negotiation of a large part of the achieved agreements.
Furthermore, our firm is actively engaged in legislative processes, advocating for industry reforms and contributing to significant legal developments that impact our clients’ operations. We also regularly organise seminars and webinars for professionals in the Slovak healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors as part of the Čechová & Partners Academy.
In recent years, our law firm has consistently received recognition from international ranking organizations for its expertise in pharmaceutical and life sciences law. We have been repeatedly shortlisted in multiple categories of the LMG Life Sciences Awards EMEA and, in 2026, received the LMG Life Sciences EMEA Award in the Slovakia Firm of the Year category. Additionally, our partners Marek Holka and Tomáš Rybár are listed among the world’s leading lawyers in the Lexology Index Healthcare & Life Sciences 2025 report.
